About Pih Peng LEE

Lee Pih Peng is a partner in the Corporate department, specialising in capital markets, corporate and M&A transactions, investment funds and private equity.

Pih Peng graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1990. She was admitted into the Singapore Bar in 1991 and trained with Drew & Napier as a corporate lawyer. In 1996, she obtained a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Hull and was admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales. In 1999, she was admitted as an Attorney of the New York Bar. Pih Peng joined Lee & Lee in 2005. Prior to joining Lee & Lee, she was the Head of the corporate practice at Harry Elias Partnership and established a growing corporate finance practice in addition to its general corporate practice.

For capital markets, Pih Peng regularly advises issuers, managers and underwriters on IPOs, rights issues, and other capital raisings. Recent IPOs handled by her include SGX Main Board listed companies Courage Marine Group Limited and Cosmosteel Holdings Limited, and rights issues transactions include those of Plato Capital Limited and Goldtron Limited, both SESDAQ-listed companies.

Pih Peng’s M&A experience covers both public and private transactions. Recent M&A transactions that she has been involved in include acting for ACR Capital Holdings Pte. Ltd. (“ACRCH”), the sole shareholder of Asia Capital Reinsurance Group Pte. Ltd. (“ACRGPL”), in relation to a US$ 620 million private placement to investors including the 3i Group and Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the largest-ever private placement deal in Asia. ACRGPL is the first pan-Asia focused independent reinsurer and start-up to be awarded a reinsurance licence by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and S&P ratings. She has been acting as legal counsel to ACRCH and ACRGPL from the time of their inception and earlier rounds of seed-funding to the latest private placement exercise; other M&A transactions include the acquisition by ISG plc of the entire issued and paid up capital of ISG Asia Investment (Hong Kong) Limited, from ISG Asia Limited (now known as Indo Agri Resources Ltd) and sale of shares in ISG Asia Limited by ISG plc and Goldtron Limited’s sale of shares of its subsidiary, SESDAQ-listed company Radiance Electronics Limited.

Recent overseas transactions that Pih Peng has been involved in include acting for Vestpa plc (now known as China Food Company plc), a London AIM-listed company, in its GBP 26.7 million acquisition of Full Fortune Holdings Pte Ltd, a Singapore investment holding company with PRC subsidiaries involved in the animal feed and condiments business, for cash and shares, resulting in the reverse takeover (RTO) and re-admission to AIM of Vestpa plc.

Pih Peng also advises fund managers and issuers on the structuring and establishment of investment funds, including regulatory aspects for offerings of securities and licensing aspects for managing the funds in Singapore.

Telephone

65574 811

E-Mail-Address

leepihpeng@leenlee.com.sg