Elisabeth Ong is an associate in the Singapore office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Corporate Department. Elisabeth advises private equity clients and corporations on a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, business combinations, and take-private transactions.

She previously spent two years in Latham’s New York office advising on a broad range of leveraged finance transactions, including acquisition financings, syndicated loans, and cross-border transactions.

Elisabeth’s experience includes advising:

  • Partners Group acting on behalf of its clients, on its acquisition of a controlling interest in Digital Halo, a Singapore-headquartered data center operator focused on Southeast Asia, from its existing shareholders, including ARCH Capital
  • Bacha Coffee, a Singapore-based coffeehouse, on the sale of a majority stake to V3 Gourmet Pte. Ltd.
  • Bain Thunder Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of Bain & Company, Inc., on its strategic acquisition of 100% of the shares held by Rainmaking Innovation Limited in its subsidiaries in Singapore and Japan, which operate the group's venture building business in the Asia Pacific region
  • British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), as part of a global leading infrastructure investors consortium led by Macquarie Asset Management, on the raise of ¥150 billion to ¥300 billion (US$1-2 billion) in funds for the sale and leaseback of a portion of Rakuten Mobile’s mobile network assets. This transaction was awarded Asia-Pacific Deal of the Year at the Infrastructure Investor Awards 2024
  • KKR and TPG on PropertyGuru Group’s US$1.1 billion proposed take-private acquisition by EQT Private Capital Asia
  • KKR on its subscription for Series A preference shares in Proventus Education Pte. Ltd., the holding company for the Taylor's Education group which owns and operates six international schools in Malaysia and Singapore
  • Platinum Equity on the acquisition of Inventia Healthcare, an Indian pharmaceutical development and manufacturing company of solid oral drug delivery systems
  • PropertyGuru Pte. Ltd., Southeast Asia’s leading property technology company, on its business combination with Bridgetown 2 Holdings Limited, a special purpose acquisition company
  • Séché Environnement, a renowned French hazardous waste treatment and disposal company, on the SGD605 million proposed acquisition of ECO Industrial Environmental Engineering Pte Ltd (ECO), the leading player in the hazardous industrial waste market in Singapore, from Beijing Capital Eco-Environment Protection Group Co., Ltd.
  • The AES Corporation (AES), a leading global energy company, on its agreement with Se.ven Global Investments to sell its 51% equity stake in the Mong Duong 2 coal-fired plant in Vietnam
  • Tiki Global Pte. Ltd., a Vietnamese e-commerce company on its Series E financing from key investors including UBS AG, London Branch, and AIA Company Limited 
  • TPG and Northstar on its sale of a stake in Trinugraha Capital, a Luxembourg-based private equity firm, to Bravo Investments Limited in connection with the acquisition of PT BFI Finance, an Indonesia-based multifinance company
  • VinFast Auto, a leading Vietnamese automotive manufacturer, on its Nasdaq listing through the business combination with Black Spade Acquisition Co., a special purpose acquisition company 
  • Warburg Pincus on the investment in Everise, a Singapore-based global healthcare services outsourcing company

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • LL.M., Columbia Law School, 2018
    James Kent Scholar
  • BA (Jurisprudence), University of Oxford, 2013

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Chinese (Mandarin)