Wei Hong Wong

Senior Associate
Very responsive to clients’ queries and knowledgeable.
Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023
About

Wei Hong’s areas of practice include banking & finance and restructuring. He advises lenders, borrowers, agents and trustees on a wide range of financing structures, including corporate finance, leveraged finance, acquisition and project finance as well as onshore-offshore financing. Wei Hong also has experience representing different stakeholders, including lenders, borrowers, agents and officeholders, in corporate and debt restructuring exercises, liability management transactions and enforcement scenarios.

Clients describe Wei Hong as being “very responsive to clients’ queries and knowledgeable” (Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023).

Wei Hong is recognised as a recommended lawyer for Banking and Finance (Foreign Firms) by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023.

Areas of FocusFinanceRestructuring
Professional QualificationsAdvocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore

EXPERIENCE

Banking & Finance:

  • Advising a global engineering firm as borrower on the provision of secured revolving loan facilities by a group of syndicate lenders.
  • Advising a multinational investment bank and financial services company as lender on the provision of a mezzanine facility secured by a mortgage over a hotel project in Singapore.
  • Advising a European growth capital fund as lender on a corporate reorganisation exercise undertaken by a global technology firm as borrower involving a novation of debt facilities and warrants, a restructuring of the security package and the introduction of an intercreditor arrangement with new incoming lenders.
  • Advising syndicate lenders on the provision of secured term loan facilities to finance the acquisition, development and construction of a mixed residential and hotel project.*
  • Advising syndicate lenders on the provision of an offshore secured facility to finance the acquisition of multiple commercial properties in China as part of an initial public offering.*
  • Advising a lender on the provision of a green revolving credit facility to a global real estate company to finance eligible projects under its green finance framework.*
  • Advising a private equity fund on the provision of a mezzanine loan facility and the issuance of redeemable preference shares to fund the acquisition of a target company.*
  • Advising a multinational investment bank and financial services company on the structuring and issuance of privately placed notes to finance the acquisition of a portfolio of industrial properties by a private investment trust.*

 

Restructuring:

  • Advising a multinational investment bank and financial services company on the enforcement of its security over shares in a NYSE listed company.
  • Advising the officeholders in the administration of a healthcare company as part of a global restructuring.
  • Advising a multinational investment bank and financial services company on the restructuring of an energy exploration company and the potential divestment of a joint venture entity to third parties.
  • Advising syndicate lenders on a potential breach by the borrower under certain project finance facilities and the subsequent restructuring of the intercreditor arrangement and security package.*
  • Advising a Singapore listed issuer on a tender offer and consent solicitation exercise as part of a strategic restructuring of its business.*
  • Advising a solicitation agent on a consent solicitation exercise by a Singapore listed issuer involving a partial debt to equity swap as part of a scheme of arrangement and debt restructuring exercise.*
  • Advising an Indonesia listed issuer on a tender offer of its existing notes as part of a capital restructuring exercise.*
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    * Denotes experience from a previous firm.

    Languages
    • English
    • Chinese (Mandarin)
    Education
    • National University of Singapore, LL.B. (First Class Hons.), 2013

    AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

    • Recommended Lawyer – Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023

    Memberships and Affiliations

    • Member, The Law Society of Singapore

    Connect

    Phone

    + 65 6512 9505
    (Work, Singapore)
    +65 9621 0853
    (Mobile, Singapore)
    +65 6512 9500
    (Fax, Singapore)