Ralph Lim U Wei

Some of the many high profile matters which Ralph has handled over the years are: 

• Acted for Infosys Limited in its joint venture with Temasek to integrate teams from Infosys and the operations of Temasek’s wholly-owned subsidiary in Singapore, Trusted Source Pte Ltd (which delivered IT services to Temasek and other clients) in a joint venture which would support Temasek’s digital transformation journey.

• Acted as Singapore counsel for Samsung Life Insurance Co., Ltd in relation to its acquisition of 30 Gresham Street, a prime office property in London for an amount exceeding £300 million (S$502 million) through, inter alia, the acquisition of all of the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in the capital of Euro Rose Private Limited, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation.

• Acted for the Offeror, a special purpose vehicle formed by a consortium led by Overseas Union Enterprise Limited (OUE) in relation to its $13.1 billion voluntary conditional cash offer to acquire all of the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in Fraser and Neave, Limited (F&N). The OUE offer was one of two competing offers for F&N, the other being the offer by TCC Assets Limited. This was one of South-East Asia’s largest takeovers. This transaction won the IFLR Asia Awards 2014 M&A Deal of the Year, Asian Legal Business SE Asia Legal Awards 2014 Southeast Asia Deal of the Year, Southeast Asia M&A Deal of the Year and Singapore M&A Deal of the Year, and was selected as one of the Asian-MENA Counsel Deals of the Year 2013. Drew was also highly recommended in the Corporate & Commercial category for Asia-Pacific headquartered firms in the Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers 2014 report for its involvement in the deal. 

• Acted for The Royal Bank of Scotland N.V., Singapore Branch and Macquarie Capital (Singapore) Pte Limited, the Joint Financial Advisers to RHC Healthcare Pte. Ltd., a vehicle owned by RHC Holding Private Limited and Fortis Healthcare Limited, in relation to RHC’s S$3.2 billion (US$2.33 billion) voluntary conditional cash offer to acquire all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in Parkway Holdings Limited. RHC’s offer was one of two competing offers for Parkway, the other being Khazanah Nasional Berhad’s offer.

• Advised Baring Private Equity Asia, in relation to its S$450 million pre-conditional voluntary general offer to acquire all of the issued and paid-up shares in Interplex Holdings Ltd.

• Acted for Mitsui & Co Ltd, the Offeror, in relation to its S$221 million voluntary conditional cash offer to acquire all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in Portek International Limited. Mitsui’s offer was one of two competing offers for Portek, the other being the offer by ICTSI Far East Pte Ltd.

• Advised the controlling shareholders of Heng Long as well as the company in the take-over of Heng Long International Ltd which operates an internationally-recognised tannery supplying fine quality crocodilian leather to luxury and high-end fashion products manufacturers globally, by HLI Holding Pte Ltd, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of LVMH - Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A. (LVMH). 

• Advised Fullerton Financial Holdings Limited (a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings) in relation to Maybank’s successful US$1.5 billion bid to acquire a controlling stake in Bank Internasional Indonesia through the acquisition of Sorak Financial Holdings, a Singapore holding company which is owned as to 75% by Fullerton Financial Holdings and 25% by Kookmin Bank.