资本市场

资本市场的重要性

有效获得资本对经济增长至关重要，而厉行严明的法制环境则会进一步促进具有活力的投资资本流通。发展中的资本市场需要法律从业者作出创新、务实而迅速的响应。

真正的创新型市场引领者

作为市场领先的资本市场业务部，本所团队参与了众多的重大开创性交易。其中包括新加坡交易所最大规模的首次公开募股和上市交易，以及新加坡各银行设立的所有担保债券计划。本所广泛的交易参与范围及专业领域覆盖国内、地区及国际市场的全部债务产品、股票产品及股票挂钩产品。

为满足客户需求而不断开拓新业务

本所的业务领域和操作经验包括上市、全球存托凭证、认股权发行、零售及常规债券、中期票据计划、监管资本发行、可转换/可交换债券及其他股权挂钩债券、资产证券化、打包重组、结构化融资及衍生品以及伊斯兰融资。本所亦就重组、再融资及负债管理等发行后事务提供咨询。

本所的律师在迅速发展的东南亚资本市场中发挥着引领作用。本所在这一行业的新方法开发方面走在前列，并主导了众多首开先河的交易，包括：

• 首个同时在马来西亚证券交易所和新加坡交易所主要市场上市的IPO项目
• 首个根据新的矿产、石油及天然气公司上市制度登陆新加坡交易所主板的石油与天然气公司IPO及上市项目
• 首次亚洲银行《巴塞尔协议III》合规监管债券发行
• 首次由私募股权基金的现金流担保的新加坡上市票据
• 首个新加坡银行担保债券计划
• 首个真正意义上的缅甸IPO项目
• 首个缅甸交易所的银行上市项目

作为该行业的积极参与者，本所在审查与加强立法及监管制度的过程中持续与监管机构、行业团体及主要参与者保持接触。

Importance of capital markets

Effective access to capital is vital to economic growth, and a disciplined legal environment acts as an additional spur to a dynamic flow of investment. Growing capital markets demand innovative, exacting and swift responses from legal practitioners.

Truly innovative market leader

As a market-leading Capital Markets Practice, our team is involved in many significant and trail-blazing deals. These have comprised the largest IPOs and listings on the Singapore Exchange and all of the covered bond programmes established by the banks in Singapore. Our wide-ranging deal involvement and expertise covers the entire spectrum of debt, equity and equity-linked products in domestic, regional and international markets.

Pioneering to meet our clients' needs

Our experience includes listings, global depository receipts, rights issues, retail and vanilla bonds, medium-term note programmes, regulatory capital issuances, convertible/exchangeable and other equity-linked bonds, asset securitisations, repackaging, structured finance and derivatives and Islamic finance. We also advise on post-issue matters such as restructuring, refinancing and liability management.

Our lawyers play a leading role in the rapidly evolving capital markets of South-east Asia. We are at the forefront of the development of  new approaches in this sector and have led many first-of-its-kind transactions, including:

• First IPO to be simultaneously listed on the main markets of Bursa Malaysia and the Singapore Exchange
• First IPO and listing of an oil and gas company under the new listings regime for mineral, oil and gas companies on the Singapore Exchange mainboard
• First Basel III compliant regulatory issuance by an Asian bank
• First listed notes in Singapore backed by cash flows from private equity funds
• First covered bond programme by a bank in Singapore
• First true IPO in Myanmar
• First bank listing on the bourse in Myanmar

As an active participant in the sector, we constantly engage with regulators, industry bodies and leading players in reviewing and enhancing the legislative and regulatory regime.