Marian Ho

Marian Ho is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’ s Corporate practice group. She is Co-Head of the Mergers & Acquisitions practice, the Corporate & Commercial practice and the Singapore-Korea relationship partner. She has broad experience in corporate finance as well as mergers and acquisitions. Her corporate finance work covers rights issues, convertible bonds and notes issues, warrant issues and share option schemes. In terms of mergers and acquisitions, Marian has advised on a range of domestic and cross-border transactions, strategic alliances, share and business acquisitions and divestitures, as well as corporate restructurings.

Marian advises on fund management and collective investment schemes, in particular offers made by offshore funds in Singapore.

Marian also acts as company secretary for a wide range of corporate secretarial clients, comprising private limited companies, publicly listed companies as well as companies limited by guarantee.

• Acting for PerkinElmer, Inc., a listed company on the New York Stock Exchange and a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world in a multi-jurisdictional divestment of its Applied, Food and Enterprise Services businesses to New Mountain Capital, a leading growth-oriented private equity firm for total consideration of US$2.45 billion in cash, US$2.30 billion to be received at the closing and US$150 million of which to be payable contingent on the exit valuation New Mountain Capital receives on a sale or other capital events related to the business.
• Acting for a global packaging group (the “Group”) in a multi-jurisdictional restructuring of its group companies. The Group has global presence, and is dual-headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland and Melbourne, Australia. The Group is in the business of developing and producing flexible packaging, rigid containers, specialty cartons, closures and services for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical-device, home and personal-care, and other products. It is dual-listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. For the nine months ended 31 March 2021, the Group’s net income was USD684 million.
• Assisting Coastal Marine Pte. Ltd., a member of the Coastal Group, a global integrated marine oil and gas services and solutions provider, in its joint venture with a Mexico-based company to undertake a project in Mexico to engineer, procure, construct, operate and maintain different gas processing plants with a view to conditioning Ixachi gas. The cross-border transaction involves, inter alia, the subscription of up to US$15 million in ordinary and redeemable preference shares. We are working with our Dentons Mexico counterpart in drafting, reviewing, amending and providing advice on the terms of the transactional documents and the documents required for completion from the Singapore law perspective.
• Assisting Roku, Inc., a Delaware corporation listed on NASDAQ, in the acquisition of DataXu, Inc., a Delaware corporation providing programmatic marketing software for brands and agencies. The multi-jurisdictional deal was valued at approximately US$150 million. Roku, a company involved in the manufacturing of a variety of digital media players and streaming platforms, acquired DataXu in a strategic move to further grow and develop the advertising portion of its business. The transaction involved DataXu and its international subsidiaries, one of which being a subsidiary set up in Singapore. The work involved assisting the client on the Singapore aspects of the transaction, which included, among other things, advising on the terms of the transactional documents and the documents required for completion from the Singapore law perspective, and involvement in the entirety of the due diligence process.
• Acting as the Singapore legal advisors to Elec & Eltek International Company Limited in relation to the delisting of the company from the Singapore Exchange following the successful take-over offer by Elec & Eltek International Holdings Limited (which we also acted as Singapore legal advisors for). The take-over, which was completed at an offer price of US$2.33 per share, valued the company at approximately US$435 million. The company was listed on the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange in 1994 and was subsequently dual-listed on the Mainboard of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2011. The company will also be delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

• M&A

• Singapore
• England and Wales

• LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 1990