Nicholas Chong

Nicholas Chong is a senior partner in the Dentons Rodyk's Corporate practice group and Co-Head of the Capital Markets practice. He is a corporate and capital markets lawyer, with a focus on real estate investment trusts (REITs), debt capital markets and structured products. In addition to Singapore, he has worked in London (with a Magic Circle firm) and Malaysia.

Nicholas has advised underwriters and REITs on initial public offerings (IPOs), real estate acquisitions and disposals, equity fundraising exercises (including rights issues), convertible bonds, establishments of, and drawdowns under, medium term note programs, bank financing transactions (both secured and unsecured) and securitizations.

• Acted for Perpetual (Asia) Limited, as REIT trustee, in the initial public offering of Cromwell European REIT raising gross proceeds of approximately EUR865.7million.
  
  
• Acted for Centurion Corporation Limited in the update of its S$500million multicurrency medium term note programme to a S$750million multicurrency debt issuance programme.
  
  
• Acted for DBS Trustee Limited, in its capacity as trustee of OUE Commercial REIT, in the acquisition of 67.95% of indirect effective interest in One Raffles Place for a purchase consideration of S$1.128billion.
  
  
• Acted for Surbana Jurong Private Limited in relation to the subscription by its wholly-owned subsidiary of S$300 million in aggregate principal amount of fixed rate bonds due 2029 and 300million detachable warrants issued by Changi Airports International Pte. Ltd.

• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity
• Private equity

• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Financial services

• Member, Law Society of Singapore
• Member, Singapore Academy of Law

• Member, Law Society of Singapore
• Member, Singapore Academy of Law