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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.

Valerie serves clients in the ASEAN region, undertaking listings, delistings, initial public offerings (IPOs), equity and debt capital markets work.

Valerie specialises in M&As and has seen a broad range of domestic and offshore transactions, management style buyouts, share and business acquisitions and divestitures, corporate rescues and restructures. She has extensive experience in advisory and transaction work and has handled successful listings over the years. Notably in 2007, she acted for Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (Holdings) Ltd in a Rule 144A offering and listing on the Singapore Exchange, raising S$1 billion, Singapore's largest China company IPO to-date.

Her corporate finance work covers public offers, share placements, rights issues, bonds and notes issues, warrants issues, bonus issues and share option schemes. She has undertaken a dual listing of the ASEAN Supreme Fund on the Singapore and Osaka stock exchanges. She regularly drafts prospectuses, information memoranda and circulars for a variety of transactions involving listed companies.

Valerie has acted in various restructuring, takeover and reverse takeover transactions. In 2009, she represented the lenders and security trustee in the sale of its security interest in Sincere Watch Limited to a consortium of buyers for S$113 million. In 2008, she acted for an Indonesian group in the takeover of listed logistics company, Richland Group Ltd. She was also the transaction counsel in the debt restructuring of Jakarta Stock Exchange listed PT Surabaya Agung Industri Pulp & Kertas Tbk.

In her debt capital market work, Valerie has acted for the Administrator in the US$346 million floating rate notes issue of Vesta Investment Corporation Limited, in the securitisation of Metropolitan and Scotts HighPark condominium developed by the CapitaLand and Lippo groups. She has advised trustees such as the Bank of New York in relation to indentures for bond issues of Taiwanese, Korean and other issuers.

Her corporate portfolio includes due diligence work, domestic and cross border joint ventures, private equity funding, advising on and establishing private and public investment funds. She regularly advises on regulatory and compliance requirements, including licensing requirements, for CMS (capital markets services) houses and financial advisers. She has served as company secretary of listed companies and regularly deals with the Singapore Exchange and other authorities on compliance, corporate governance, licensing and other securities matters.

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 the Singapore Exchange) and Chemical Industries (Far East) Limited.

She has worked on many listings in various capacities, including the successful IPOs and listing of the following corporates:

• Global Palm Resources Holdings Limited
• China Kangda Food Company Limited
• Ouhua Energy Holdings
• 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