TAN Teck Howe is a Partner in the Corporate Real Estate Practice.

His main practice areas are property-related corporate work, sales and purchases, property regulatory, advisory work, property investment and management, property development, leases and property-related commercial contracts.

Transactions of significance which Teck Howe has been involved in include acting for Jurong Town Corporation ("JTC") as vendor in the divestment of its portfolio of industrial assets (comprising flatted factories, ramp-up and stack-up factories and multi-tenanted business parks)  for a total consideration of S$1.71 billion to a private trust sponsored by Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd; Ascendas (Admiralty) Pte Ltd in the sale of units in "FoodXchange@Admiralty", their 7-storey, 283-unit food factory with a ramp-up facility at Admiralty Road; Ascendas (Ubi) Pte Ltd in the sale of units in their 235-unit light industry development known as "Frontier" at Ubi Avenue 3; the vendors in the sale of Novotel Clarke Quay to CDL Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust (CDL H-Reit), at a total consideration of S$201 million; Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust ("A-REIT") in their acquisition and leaseback of property at 31 International Business Park Singapore from Creative Technology Centre Pte Ltd for a consideration of 246.8 million; A-REIT in their acquisition and leaseback of properties at 2 Senoko South road and 26 Senoko Way Singapore from Super Coffeemix Manufacturing Ltd for a total consideration of S$49 million; Citibank N.A. (as agent) and the lenders in respect of S$232 million facilities to Riverhub Pte Ltd secured on the development known as "The Central"; DBS Bank Ltd in the financing of S$166 million facilities to Choice Homes Beta Pte Ltd, a joint venture between NTUC Income and Wing Tai Holdings, for the acqusition and development of the project on the URA sale site at Tanah Merah Kechil secured on the development; BNP Paribas and OCBC (as arrangers) in the creation of security over Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Singapore in connection with the grant of a S$260 million facility to RCMS Properties Private Limited (a member of the Pontiac Group), the owner of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Singapore; and Macquarie MEAG Prime REIT ("Prime REIT") in the acquisition of a 74 per cent interest in Wisma Atria and a 23 per cent interest in Ngee Ann City, valued at approximately S$1.3 billion, and Pacific Star Prime REIT Management Limited, as manager (the "Manager") of Prime REIT in connection with the acquisition, in relation to the offering of units in Prime REIT by the Manager and the listing of the units in Prime REIT on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited.

Before joining the Firm, Teck Howe was a legal counsel and development control planner with the Urban Redevelopment Authority.

Teck Howe graduated from Mansfield College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence and was admitted to the Singapore Bar.

You can contact Teck Howe at teckhowe.tan@wongpartnership.com.sg.

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