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Valerie Ong is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's Corporate Practice Group and heads the firm's Corporate Finance Practice. Nominated IFLR 1000 Leading Lawyer 2011 for Mergers and Acquisitions, she was also named in Who's Who Legal: Singapore 2008 - Mergers & Acquisitions.

Valerie's portfolio covers Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions. In practice over 20 years, she has extensive transactional and cross-border experience. She has acted in over 20 listings (including S-chips) as solicitors to the invitation and as legal advisers to the issue managers, placement agents and underwriters. Notably, she acted for Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (Holdings) Ltd in its global offering and listing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) which raised almost S$1 billion and remains Singapore's largest S-chip IPO to-date. Her other listings include Global Palm Resources Holdings Ltd (SGX), China Kangda Food Co., Ltd (HKSE) and Asia Distribution Solutions Limited (AIM). Valerie's real estate transactional deals include the acquisitions of DBS Towers 1 and 2 (S$870.5 million) (2010), and Crowne Plaza Changi Airport (S$299.5 million) (2011). In debt capital markets work, she has served as issuer counsel for Overseas Union Enterprise Limited's S$300 million secured fixed rate listed bond issue, bank counsel in the S$113 million sale of their security interests in Sincere Watch Limited; counsel to trustee & administrator in the US$346 million Vesta Investment Corporation Limited FRN issue (in the securitisation of the Metropolitan and Scotts High Park condominium); and undertaken the debt restructuring work in relation to PT Surabaya Agung Industri Pulp & Kertas Tbk.

She also advises banks, capital market services firms and financial advisers as part of her regulatory and compliance work. In 2009, she was part of the team acting for 11 banks and stock broker distributors of the Lehman Brothers Minibonds notes in their dealings with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the notes trustee.

Valerie is a member of the Income Tax Board of Review and serves as independent director of Sarin Technologies Ltd (the first Israeli company to list on SGX), and Chemical Industries (Far East) Limited. She also serves on the Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises Committee of the International Bar Association.

She has acted in many listings in various capacities, including as Solicitors to the Invitation and as Legal Advisers to the Issue Managers/Underwriters:-

• Global Palm Resources Holdings Limited
• China Kangda Food Company Limited.
• Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (Holdings) Ltd
• China Farm Equipment Limited
• OuHua Energy Holdings Ltd
• Plastoform Holdings Limited
• Hoe Leong Corporation Ltd
• System Access Limited
• Gates Electronics Limited
• SNF Corporation Ltd
• Elite KSB Holdings Limited
• Creative Master Bermuda Limited
• Heeton Holdings Limited
• Juken Technology Limited
• Norelco Centreline Limited
• Futuristic Image Builder Ltd
• MAE Engineering Ltd
• CWT Distribution Limited
• Fu Yu Corporation Ltd
• Heshe Holdings Limited