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Ming Jie Chan

Associate

Personal Profile

Ming Jie is an Associate in the Singapore office specialising in banking and finance. He has experience acting for both financial institutions and corporate borrowers across a broad spectrum of industries including aviation and maritime, on a wide range of cross-border financing transactions, from acquisition finance, real estate finance, trade finance to asset finance.

Key Experience

  • Acting for a Singapore bank in providing SORA loans to finance the acquisition of a leading local electric-vehicle car sharing firm and the subsequent debt pushdown to the firm’s material subsidiaries.
  • Acting for a Singapore bank in a debt for equity swap, involving the restructuring and sale of non-performing loans to investors which was previously secured by amongst others, 13 vessel mortgages.
  • Acting for various subsidiaries of an SGX listed shipping company in relation to the obtaining of (a) credit facilities from a Chinese bank, and (b) secured term loan facilities from Singapore banks.
  • Acting for Singapore banks in trade finance matters involving international rubber processing companies and their subsidiaries across South East Asia.
  • Acting for a Malaysian bank in providing financing to an SGX-listed shipbuilder to construct a Belize flagged jack-up rig valued at US$62 million at its Vietnamese shipyard, and subsequently working with Vietnamese counsel to secure the release of the rig from local Vietnamese creditors.
  • Acting for a leading Taiwanese finance company in the financing and acquisition of aircraft and helicopters by way of mortgage, and lease and buyback arrangements.
  • Acting for Singapore banks in various bilateral loan facilities, including (a) pre- and post-delivery financing for vessels under construction, (b) financing the construction of passenger ferries for charter to government agencies, and (c) financing the acquisition of terminal tug towing vessels and back-to-back shipbuilding contracts.
  • Acting for a Singapore bank for vessel finance matters, negotiating and preparing security documents including mortgages over foreign flagged vessels and foreign property mortgages.
  • Acting for a Singapore bank in extending credit facilities to a Singapore borrower with Chinese sponsors to finance the acquisition of a New Zealand corporate entity, in connection with a New Zealand forestry project.

Career History

Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Senior Associate, Shook Lin & Bok LLP
Associate, Shook Lin & Bok LLP
Associate, Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP
Singapore Management University, LL. B (Cum Laude) (Singapore Management University Scholars Programme)

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