Christy LIM is a Partner in the Banking & Finance Practice.

Her main practice areas are banking, finance, security work, syndicated loans, club deals, cross-border and multi-currency transactions, transferable loans, loans with embedded debt-instrument conversion options, acquisition financing involving takeover offers (both mandatory and voluntary), schemes of arrangement, delisting proposals / exit offers as well as mergers and acquisitions, debt restructuring, international and cross-border financing transactions involving Singapore law, banking, financial laws and regulations.

Matters of significance which Christy has been involved in in terms of acquisition financing include acting in the largest buyout in the technology sector where she acted for Global A&T Electronics Ltd, a special purpose company formed by TPG Capital and Affinity Equity Partners in the financing of the acquisition of Singapore's No. 2 provider of chip-testing services, United Test and Assembly Center Ltd, valued at US$1.5 billion, with JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. as the administrative agent and collateral agent. Other acquisition financing matters include acting for The Cairns Pte Ltd (the special purpose vehicle established by Tecity Group) as lead financing counsel in the financing of its voluntary conditional offer for all the issued shares in The Straits Trading Company Limited for S$1.86 billion; and acting for Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited and CVC Asia Pacific Limited in the acquisition financing arranged by Standard Chartered Bank relating to the successful takeover of Amtek Engineering Ltd by a consortium led by Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited and two funds advised by CVC Asia Pacific Limited.

Christy also acted for the consortium which comprised of Baring Private Equity Asia Pte Ltd, The International Investor and DB International (Asia) Ltd, in relation to a Commodity Murabahah financing (devised in Islamic principles), which refinances the earlier bridge acquisition facilities taken out by Asia Retail Group Limited for the acquisition of Courts (Singapore) Limited ("CSL"), Courts Mammoth Berhad ("CMB") and a 20 percent equity interest in Memphis King Ltd (Holding company of Courts Megastore (Thailand) Ltd). The acquisition exercise involved assets in multiple jurisdictions including India, Hong Kong, Philippines, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Brunei Darussalam. 
Her portfolio of real estate / property financing deals (comprising both residential and commercial projects) include the biggest residential real estate financing deal to date - Farrer Court, involving bridge financing of over S$1.5 billion and the record-breaking office building transactions - Hitachi Tower and Chevron House, involving financing of over S$1 billion. Christy also acted for the Borrower, Orchard Turn Holding Pte Ltd, in the S$1.56 billion syndicated credit facilities for the financing of the "Ion Orchard" retail-cum-residential project at Orchard Road / Paterson Road; and acted for Deutsche Bank as lead arranger in financing the acquisition of up to S$350 million, by Lippo-Mapletree Indonesian Retail Trust of Sun Plaza in Medan and other retail investments in Indonesia.

You can contact Christy at christy.lim@wongpartnership.com.sg.

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