Sharon Lau

Sharon’s experience includes advising:

Capital Markets

• Sunway Healthcare Holdings on its US$722 million IPO on Bursa Malaysia
• Eco-Shop on its US$230 million IPO on Bursa Malaysia, the largest IPO in Malaysia in 2025. This transaction was awarded Equity Market Deal of the Year at the ALB Malaysia Law Awards 2026, Best IPO (Malaysia) at The Asset Triple A Islamic Finance Awards and The Asset Triple A Awards for Sustainable Finance 2026, and Best Equity Deal: Malaysia and Best IPO: Malaysia at the FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2025
• UltraGreen.ai, a global leader in the fluorescence-guided surgery space, on its US$400 million IPO and listing on SGX
• Foundation Healthcare, an integrated private healthcare platform in Singapore, on its S$242 million IPO and listing on SGX
• Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank), one of the largest private joint-stock banks in Vietnam, on its US$900 million listing on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange as well as its US$370 million pre-IPO investment by Warburg Pincus
• Vinhomes JSC, a Vietnam-based residential property developer, on its US$1.35 billion IPO and listing on HOSE, the largest listing in Vietnam to date
• Superbank on its US$167 million IPO on IDX
• PT Merdeka Battery Materials on its IPO on IDX, the third-largest IPO in Indonesia in 2023
• The underwriters on the S$284.9 million public offering of AvePoint, which is the first US-registered follow-on offering and concurrent secondary listing by a Nasdaq-listed company on SGX. This transaction was awarded Equity Market Deal of the Year at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2026, and Best Equity Deal: Singapore at the FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2025
• The underwriters in TDCX Inc.’s US$400.7 million US IPO and listing on NYSE
• Vingroup and Vinpearl on numerous landmark financing transactions across public and private capital markets, including a series of exchangeable bond issuances and a US$255 million private credit financing for Vinpearl
• A global investment company on its Global Medium Term Note Program, including more than US$13 billion of note offerings since 2016

SPACs / De-SPACs

• VinFast Auto, a leading Vietnamese automotive manufacturer, on the business combination with Black Spade Acquisition Co., and listing on Nasdaq
• PropertyGuru Pte. Ltd., Southeast Asia’s leading property technology company, on its business combination with Bridgetown 2 Holdings Limited, a special purpose acquisition company
• ReNew Power Private Limited, an India-based renewable energy producer, on its business combination with RMG Acquisition Corporation II, a special purpose acquisition company— the first de-SPAC merger globally involving independent renewable power producers
• Black Spade Acquisition III Co. (SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Black Spade Capital) on its:
  • Business combination with Astrum Space Inc, a satellite communications company developing a wholesale satellite-to-device broadcast and data-distribution network
  • US$172.5 million IPO on NYSE
• Black Spade Acquisition II Co. on:
  • The business combination with The Generation Essentials Group, a Europe-based global media and entertainment company
  • A SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Black Spade Capital Limited, on its US$150 million listing on Nasdaq

M&A / Private Equity / Hybrid Capital

• HPS (a part of BlackRock) on the convertible preferred equity financing for Teleport, a subsidiary of Capital A Berhad, a Southeast Asian e-commerce logistics specialist
• ST Telemedia on the S$13.8 billion acquisition of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, a leading data center colocation services provider, by global investment firm KKR and Singtel, Asia’s leading communications technology group (the consortium). The transaction represents one of the largest digital infrastructure transactions in Southeast Asia to date
• ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STTGDC) on its S$1.75 billion (approximately US$1.3 billion) investment from global investment firm KKR (through its Asia Pacific Infrastructure Investors II Fund), and Singtel, Asia’s leading communications technology group. The transaction marks the largest digital infrastructure investment in Southeast Asia to date in 2024, and was awarded M&A Deal of the Year at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2025
• WNS Holding Ltd, an India-based provider of offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) services for the travel and financial sectors, on its US$3.3 billion sale to Capgemini
• TPG on the:
  • US$1 billion strategic partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, to support the growth of their AI data center business, HyperVault. This transaction was awarded JV of the Year by India Business Law Journal’s Deals of the Year Awards 2025
  • Acquisition, through its subsidiary Columbia Asia Healthcare, of Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care, a Malaysia-based healthcare joint venture. This transaction was awarded Best M&A Deal: Malaysia at the FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2024
  • Transaction, as part of a consortium comprising TPG, Singapore Life (SingLife), Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, and others, to combine SingLife with Aviva Singapore — which, with a combined valuation of S$3.2 billion, marks one of the largest mergers in the insurance sector in Southeast Asia and the largest in Singapore
  • Acquisition and sale of a 50% stake in Myanmar Distillery, a Myanmar-based company involved in manufacturing alcoholic beverages
• KKR and TPG on PropertyGuru Group’s US$1.1 billion 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
• HARPS Global Pte. Ltd., a Southeast Asian medical glove producer, on the acquisition of Semperit AG Holding’s medical business, Sempermed
• SATS Ltd. on the acquisition of Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), the world’s largest air cargo handling firm, from an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. The transaction values WFS at an enterprise value of €2.25 billion, with an equity purchase price of €1.18 billion