Tzi-Yang Seow
Partner, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore
Biography
Overview
Tzi-Yang Seow is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practice, based in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Tzi-Yang has extensive experience advising global and regional private equity funds, venture funds and other financial and strategic investors in competitive and proprietary buyouts, growth equity investments and disposals, going private transactions, PIPE transactions as well as joint ventures across the Asia-Pacific region and globally. He has worked in Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Bars and Courts
Advocate and Solicitor, Singapore
Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong
Education
LLM
New York University School of Law
LLB
National University of Singapore
Languages
English
Mandarin
Experience
- Advent International, one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors, on its sale of its controlling interest in AI Dream, a leading premium sleep solution provider that operates global brands Serta and King Koil in China.
- Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager with US$850 billion of assets under management, on its:
- negotiation of a Subscription Agreement for Reliance Industries', India's largest public company by market capitalization and revenue, US$122.24 million (33.33 percent stake) investment in the existing joint venture between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, a US-based real estate investment trust, to build data centers across India; and
- acquisition by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, a leading global infrastructure company that owns and operates high-quality, long-life assets in the utilities, transport, midstream and data sectors across North and South America, Asia-Pacific and Europe, of substantially all of the assets of Cyxtera Technologies, Inc., a global leader in data center colocation, interconnection services, and digital infrastructure, for US$775 million.
- CVC Capital Partners, a global private equity firm, on its sale of shares in PT Garudafood Putra Putri Jaya Tbk., one of the largest food and beverage companies in Indonesia, to Hormel Foods Corporation a Fortune500 global branded food company.
- Danone S.A. on its acquisition of Nutritional Medicinals, LLC, a leading whole foods tube feeding business in the United States, from Swander Pace Capital.
- Delivery Hero SE on its US$950 million cash sale of its Foodpanda business in Taiwan to Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber), and on its separate US$300 million cash capital increase, fully subscribed by Uber, through its wholly-owned subsidiary SMB Holding Corporation.
- DigitalBridge, an American international investment firm, on its:
- approximately US$450 million acquisition of a majority ownership stake in AIMS Group from TIME dotCom Berhad, a Malaysian telecommunications provider, and Symphony Communication Public Company Limited, a Thai telecommunications provider; and
- US$750 million carve-out acquisition of PCCW group's data center business in Hong Kong and Malaysia.
- FountainVest Partners as a member of an investor consortium on its EUR€5.6 billion (US$6.4 billion) voluntary public tender offer for all the shares in Amer Sports Corporation, a Finnish sporting goods company with internationally recognized brands including Salomon, Arc'teryx, Peak Performance, Atomic, Mavic, Suunto, Wilson and Precor. The investor consortium comprised ANTA Sports Products Limited, FountainVest Partners, an affiliate of Chip Wilson (founder of lululemon athletica inc) and Tencent Holdings. This transaction was named "Deal of the Year" by FinanceAsia China Awards.
- GDS Holdings Limited on its US$587 million Series A equity financing of its international business operated by DigitalLand Holdings Limited.
- Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC, a private equity and wealth management arm of Goldman Sachs, on its investments in Puyi (Shanghai) Biotechnology Co., Ltd., a leader in high-value medical device market in China; and Perfect Corp., an AR and AI company that enables consumers to try on beauty products virtually, based in Taiwan.
- Ruentex Group on its US$2.9 billion sale of an approximate 36.16 percent interest in Sun Art Group to Taobao China Holding Limited, a subsidiary of NYSE-listed Alibaba Group. This transaction was awarded "M&A Deal of the Year" by China Law Practice Awards.
*Includes experience prior to joining White & Case