Finance Monthly Deal Maker Awards 2020 Edition

FINANCE MONTHLY DEAL MAKER AWARDS 2020 MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS FIRM PROFILE Herbert Smith Freehills is one of the world’s leading professional services businesses, bringing together the best people across our 27 offices, to meet all your legal services needs globally. We can help you realise opportunities while managing risk. Understanding your requirements, objectives and operating environment is important to us - we listen and take time to do this. You have ready access to our deep global sectoral expertise, as well as our local market understanding, to help you achieve your commercial objectives. CONTACT T +65 6868 8007 M +65 8339 5896 E: nicola.yeomans@hsf.com NICOLA YEOMANS Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills ABOUT NICOLA YEOMANS Nicola Yeomans is head of the Asia private capital practice of Herbert Smith Freehills and specialises in big ticket M&A. She advises sovereigns, pension funds, private equity and other asset managers on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint venture arrangements in Singapore and the emerging markets of India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. Nicola’s deal experience spans multiple sectors including infrastructure, real estate, technology, telecommunications, healthcare and consumer goods. Nicola is consistently ranked as a leading lawyer by legal industry directories and recognised by top legal and financial industry publications. Nicola is described by clients as “very smart and very commercial” with “incredible depth of understanding of the cultural aspects of a matter”. Recent highlights include advising on: - sale to Warburg Pincus and PremjiInvest of a stake in India’s largest general insurer SBIG, acting as international counsel for IAG on the competitive bid process; - $S16b SGX takeover of Global Logistics Properties, acting for a Chinese fund manager in consortium with Hopu, Vanke and Hillhouse Capital; - Temasek on various acquisitions including bidder consortium arrangements with Hosen Capital and S$1 billion acquisition of VIP Petfoods from Quadrant Private Equity; - TPG Capital Asia on the acquisition of Pan Asia Majestic Eagle, now merged with Apollo Towers to create a US$700 million towers portfolio in Myanmar; - Brookfield Singapore on financing its US3$b acquisition of International Finance Centre in Seoul from AIG Global Real Estate; and - US$1 billion commitment to India’s largest infrastructure investment fund by pension plan Australian Super, alongside Ontario Teachers, Temasek and ADIA Nicola sits on the global governing Council of the firm, to represent Asia, having previously led our Southeast Asia Corporate practice. She was recently recognised by ALB as the only international law firm finalist for Southeast Asia Woman Lawyer of the Year. www.finance-monthly.com 65