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Prawiro Widjaja is a Partner in Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions. He advises corporate clients and private equity funds in mergers and acquisitions in Singapore and the Asian region. His practice also includes equity and hybrid capital markets transactions.
Prawiro has extensive experience in acquisitions and investments in financial institutions in Asia. Notable transactions include advising Temasek Holdings in its acquisition of Bank Danamon and BII in Indonesia, Alliance Bank in Malaysia and NIB in Pakistan and advising DBS Bank on its acquisition of Dao Heng Bank in Hong Kong, TMB Bank in Thailand, Bowa Bank in Taiwan and BPI in the Philippines.
He has also represented other Singapore companies in cross-border transactions, including SingTel on its Optus acquisition, CitySpring on its Basslink acquisition and BIL on Thistle Hotels in the UK.
In capital market transactions, Prawiro has advised Hyflux Water Trust, CitySpring (the first listing of an infrastructure business trust in Singapore), Golden Agri Resources and Raffles Holdings on their initial public offerings. In follow-on offerings, he has advised PT Berlian Laju Tanker on its convertible bonds issuances, Chartered Semiconductor on its convertible preference shares offering and Temasek Holdings on the offering of notes exchangeable into SingTel shares. He has also advised DBS Bank on its regulatory capital offerings since 2001, including its recent hybrid tier 1 preference shares issuance.
Recent transactions on which Prawiro has advised include Thailand’s state-owned oil and gas company PTT’s bid for Straits Asia Resources, Chartered Semiconductor’s US$312 million rights issue, DBS’ S$4 billion rights issue (the largest rights issue in Singapore to-date), Maybank’s offering of innovative tier 1 capital securities, Neptune Orient Line’s bid for Hapag Lloyd, Frasers Centrepoint’s acquisition of Allco’s Singapore real estate interests and Keppel Integrated Engineering’s bid for the privatisation of the Senoko Incinerator.
Prawiro read law in Cambridge University and graduated in 1993. He was called to the Middle Temple in 1994 and the Singapore Bar in 1995. He joined Allen & Gledhill in December 1994 as a pupil and was made a Partner in 2000. In Chambers Asia (2009), Prawiro is listed as a leading lawyer for corporate/M&A in Singapore. Chambers Global (2009) describes him as “technically superb, level-headed and commercially sensible”, and as one who “communicates his advice clearly so that bankers and lawyers alike can understand”.
He speaks and writes Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu.
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