Practice Expertise
- Corporate Real Estate
- Banking and Finance
Areas of Practice
- Corporate Real Estate
- Banking and Finance
WSG Practice Industries
WSG Leadership
- Banking & Finance Group - Member
- Real Estate Group - Member
- Women's Professional Forum Group - Member
Profile
Small in stature but prodigious in presence, nobody ever misses the fact that Jennifer is in the boardroom. She is notorious for negotiating fair but hard, with an astonishing ability to successfully close deals under intense pressure and unattainable deadlines.
Heading TSMP's Banking & Finance and Corporate Real Estate desks, she is in a unique position to advise and act on both the funding and acquisition aspects of a property transaction, a convenience that many clients appreciate. While dealing in commercial and industrial buildings is her bread and butter, Jennifer also has a thriving practice in general corporate work encompassing investments, convertible loan transactions, joint ventures, share and business sale transactions. Additionally, she advises listed companies on their regulatory and compliance matters.
Her clients include banks, financial institutions, multinational corporates and high-net-worth individuals, who value her for going to bed thinking about their problems, and waking up with solutions.
Heading TSMP's Banking & Finance and Corporate Real Estate desks, she is in a unique position to advise and act on both the funding and acquisition aspects of a property transaction, a convenience that many clients appreciate. While dealing in commercial and industrial buildings is her bread and butter, Jennifer also has a thriving practice in general corporate work encompassing investments, convertible loan transactions, joint ventures, share and business sale transactions. Additionally, she advises listed companies on their regulatory and compliance matters.
Her clients include banks, financial institutions, multinational corporates and high-net-worth individuals, who value her for going to bed thinking about their problems, and waking up with solutions.
Bar Admissions
Singapore
Education
LL.B. (HONS) (NUS)
Areas of Practice
- Corporate Real Estate
- Banking and Finance
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
Acted for a unit of Indian conglomerate Hinduja group, Gulf Oil Asia in its purchase from bankrupt Hin Leong Trading's shipping arm Ocean Tankers a lubricant blending plant with wharf access; a storage tank farm; and a terminal facility in Tuas on a going concern basis. This transaction involved advising on the assignment of the Jurong Town Council (JTC) lease, transfer of employees and business contracts.
Acted for Singapore port operator Jurong Port in its take over of shares in Universal Terminal, a major oil storage terminal on Singapore's Jurong Island, from the Lim Family of collapsed oil trader, Hin Leong, which involved assisting the client on the assignment of the JTC lease, transfer of employees and novation of operational contracts and licences.
Acted for Mooreast Asia in its purchase of a property at Shipyard Road from a subsidiary of the embattled, Ezra Holdings group. The property includes both a land lot and foreshore lot/seabed with a long term lease from the JTC. Advised the purchaser on the various JTC assignment requirements.
Advising and acting for the Singapore subsidiaries and related entities of the Australia-based property development group LOGOS in (i) an acquisition of 21 Tuas West Drive, a building and JTC land in Tuas, Singapore and (ii) a joint venture with a major player in the food production, import and distribution sectors, to jointly acquire and develop a S$79-million modern food processing and warehouse facility on the property.
Singapore counsel to YTL Power International Berhad on the proposed acquisition of the power plant and associated assets of Tuaspring Pte Ltd by its subsidiary, Taser Power Pte. Ltd as part of the PowerSeraya group. The power plant land is leased from the Public Utilities Board (PUB) and assisting the purchaser with the relevant PUB and Singapore Land Authority approvals.
Acted for a unit of Indian conglomerate Hinduja group, Gulf Oil Asia in its purchase from bankrupt Hin Leong Trading's shipping arm Ocean Tankers a lubricant blending plant with wharf access; a storage tank farm; and a terminal facility in Tuas on a going concern basis. This transaction involved advising on the assignment of the Jurong Town Council (JTC) lease, transfer of employees and business contracts.
Acted for Singapore port operator Jurong Port in its take over of shares in Universal Terminal, a major oil storage terminal on Singapore's Jurong Island, from the Lim Family of collapsed oil trader, Hin Leong, which involved assisting the client on the assignment of the JTC lease, transfer of employees and novation of operational contracts and licences.
Acted for Mooreast Asia in its purchase of a property at Shipyard Road from a subsidiary of the embattled, Ezra Holdings group. The property includes both a land lot and foreshore lot/seabed with a long term lease from the JTC. Advised the purchaser on the various JTC assignment requirements.
Advising and acting for the Singapore subsidiaries and related entities of the Australia-based property development group LOGOS in (i) an acquisition of 21 Tuas West Drive, a building and JTC land in Tuas, Singapore and (ii) a joint venture with a major player in the food production, import and distribution sectors, to jointly acquire and develop a S$79-million modern food processing and warehouse facility on the property.
Singapore counsel to YTL Power International Berhad on the proposed acquisition of the power plant and associated assets of Tuaspring Pte Ltd by its subsidiary, Taser Power Pte. Ltd as part of the PowerSeraya group. The power plant land is leased from the Public Utilities Board (PUB) and assisting the purchaser with the relevant PUB and Singapore Land Authority approvals.
Articles
Mixed-Use Developments: Boon or Bane?
By Jennifer Chia |April 2020Reading the Tea Leaves for 2020
By Jennifer Chia, Low Ka Wei |January 2020Death of a Residential Property Market
By Jennifer Chia |August 2018
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