Kai Yong Tan

Full Profile

Kai Yong is a Legal Director based in Clyde & Co’s Singapore office specialising in cross border mergers and acquisitions.

Kai Yong has more than a decade of transactional and cross-border experience with regional mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, joint venture, corporate reorganisation, general corporate, and projects work. His experience spans across multiple sectors including energy and natural resources, infrastructure (both traditional and digital), projects and constructions, marine, trade and commodities, logistics, healthcare and technology sectors.

His clients include locally and regionally listed corporations, government-affiliated investment funds, private and state-owned commodities trading houses, and various other SMEs and multinational corporations. In particular, Kai Yong works frequently with top tier Chinese SOEs, Japanese and other major international trading houses and private enterprises.

As part of his general corporate practice, Kai Yong has also advised on various industry specific regulatory compliance issues, business licence requirements and applications, as well as company incorporation, corporate secretarial and employment matters.

Kai Yong is admitted as a solicitor in Singapore and speaks fluent English and Mandarin.

Experience

• Advising a world-leading FinTech company’s Singapore entity in respect of its 100% acquisition of a US based holding company of a crypto exchange network with operations in Latin American, including in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay etc. 
• Advising a Singapore based leading video game development company on the acquisition of one of the largest independent game developers in the UK.
• Acting for one of the world’s largest crypto exchange, the Binance group, in various investments and acquisitions around the ASEAN region, including  Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Vietnam.
• Advising a Chinese company on the acquisition of a significant stake in a Singapore e-ticketing online platform.
• Advising a Chinese State-Owned heavy machinery enterprise in the acquisition of shareholdings in a Singapore and Malaysian entity engaged in the machinery service business.
• Advising Marubeni Corporation on the acquisition from Torvald Klaveness Group, a major Norwegian shipping company, of a stake in Klaveness Dry Bulk AS, Klaveness' core Panamax-type bulk carrier operating business.
• Advising Mitsubishi Corporation on its investment into dry bulk pool operator, TBS Ocean Logistics, and co-ordination of the multi-jurisdictional due diligence exercise.
• Advising a Chinese state-owned enterprise on the establishment of a Singapore joint venture between Chinese private enterprise to act as an offshore platform for the sale of solar modules, solar panels and solar cells.
• Advising one of the largest wholesale market traders in Europe for power and gas, on the sale of the Singapore arm of its coal and freight business.
• Advising a Japanese trading house on the establishment of an equal joint venture in Singapore with an international trading house to operate a global LNG vessel pool.
• Advising a Chinese state-owned enterprise on the establishment of its Singapore joint venture with Singapore’s GIC to act as a cold storage logistics asset platform.
• Advising a Malaysian private equity group on the acquisition of a majority stakeholding in an animal feed business in Thailand.
• Advising clients on various aspects of business formation in Singapore, such as the incorporation of companies and the registration of other corporate entities, increase of capital and shareholder agreements.