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Yeo Wico

Telephone
+65 6890 7775

Facsimile
+65 6302 3208

E-mail:
yeo.wico@allenandgledhill.com

Yeo Wico has a well rounded practice with broad experience in corporate finance, capital markets, asset securitisation and repackaging, derivatives, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, private equity and securities regulations. After graduating from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1991, Wico went on to obtain a Diploma in Banking and Finance from the Institute of Banking and Finance in Singapore. He was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1992. In addition, he has been admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in England & Wales and as an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law in the State of New York.

In 2005 and 2003, Wico advised on the largest equity initial public offering and the largest debt offering in Singapore. He has been listed in PLC Equity Capital Markets 2006/07 as a highly recommended lawyer in Singapore and was described in the publication as being “widely considered to be a very talented practitioner”. He was the lead transaction counsel on the SME Loan Securitisation transaction which was awarded ALB Singapore Deal of the Year Award for 2007 and the ALB Singapore Structured Finance and Securitisation Deal of the Year Award for 2007.

Wico joined Financial Services as a Partner in 2000 and has advised on landmark transactions including the following:

•	DBS Bank on its debut synthetic securitisation of a S$2.8 billion corporate loan portfolio - the first publicly rated transaction by a bank in Asia (ex-Japan) to manage regulatory capital and hedge against credit default risk, and on the establishment of the first rated and listed asset securitisation programme in Singapore – the S$2 billion MoneyPlus Short Term Note Programme;
•	SP AusNet on its IPO – the largest in Singapore in 2005 and second largest in Singapore since SingTel’s IPO in 1993 and the first IPO of stapled securities and business trust in Singapore;
•	SP PowerAssets Limited on its US$2.2 billion global bond offering – the largest bond offering by a Singapore corporate issuer in Singapore in 2003;
•	Singapore Exchange on its IPO the first by an exchange worldwide and its listing on SGX-ST with an initial market capitalisation of S$1.1 billion;
•	Singapore Post Limited on its IPO – the largest in Singapore in 2003 and awarded Singapore deal of 2003;
•	SingTel on its US$2.4 billion global bond offering - the Asia bond deal of 2001, its US$8.3 billion takeover bid for the Australian telecoms company, Optus - the largest acquisition by a Singapore corporate, and its S$1 billion fixed rate unsecured bond issue – the then largest ever Singapore dollar bond issue by a Singapore corporate;
•	Temasek on its landmark inaugural US$1.75 billion global bond offering in 2005; and
•	UOB Asia in arranging the first ever issue of Islamic bonds by Majlis Ugama Islam, Singapura – a breakthrough for the Singapore debt market.

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