Oo Ban Leong

M&A, Corporate & Change Advisor

Ban Leong has over 30 years practice as a seasoned corporate lawyer, and provides valuable expertise in developing strategies for Change in multi-brand businesses that involve corporate advisory, commercial and M&A-related work. He has particular experience advising on corporate, commercial and M&A projects both in the APAC region and globally.

Ban Leong founded Prolegis LLC which, together with Herbert Smith Freehills, launched a Formal Law Alliance in 2015, the Singapore law practice of which Ban helmed for nearly a decade prior to his retirement from legal practice.

Whilst in practice, Ban Leong has been consistently recommended in key industry publications in the 'International Firm’ category as a leading lawyer for Corporate M&A, including The IFLR1000, The Legal 500 and Chambers Global. He authored The Practical Law Company's series on "Cross Border Acquisitions" for Singapore for both the 2009 & 2011 editions.

Following his active career as a practising lawyer, Ban Leong now focuses his time on consulting, advisory, mentoring, project work and non-profit initiatives.

Experience & expertise

Selected matters that Ban has acted on whilst in practice

SGX-listed Delfi Ltd on the US$860 million sale of its cocoa ingredients businesses across Asia, Europe and South America, to Barry Callebaut AG
Tyco, on a range of acquisitions and divestments across the Asia Pacific and Indian sub-continent
a consortium on the Singapore aspects of its proposed bid for the Singapore–Malaysia High Speed Rail project
British Telecom on the merger between Starhub and Singapore Cablevision, and its vendor sale as part of the S$457 million initial public offering of StarHub Limited
Petra Foods Limited, on its acquisition of a majority stake in the Dutch, German and French cocoa processing and manufacturing operations of, and the joint venture with, the Armajaro Group, as well as its subsequent buy-out of Armajaro's joint venture stake
Credit Suisse in relation to the sale of its strategic stake in Indonesian energy group PT Medco Energi
Cable & Wireless, in relation to the sale of its residual stake in Singapore-listed MobileOne Ltd, to Telekom Malaysia and the Malaysian government's investment arm, Khazanah Nasional;

Ban Leong Oo's Chambers Profile