Marianne Yeo

Associate Director

DID: +65 6922 2995

Email: marianne.yeo@mayerbrown.com

 

 

 

 

Lawyer’s Profile

Marianne is an Associate Director at PK Wong & Nair, Mayer Brown’s constituent Singapore law practice. She advises private equity, MNCs, family offices and HNWIs on a variety of local and cross-border Real Estate and Corporate matters.

Marianne’s expertise lies in Real Estate, and she provides legal advice across all property sectors – commercial, industrial, residential, hospitality, living, retail, office and digital infrastructure.

Marianne has a decade of broad experience in acquisitions, divestments and financing of assets and property-holding entities, receivership sales, leasing, stamp duty, hotel management contracts, JTC projects, development projects, construction contracts, corporate M&A, joint ventures and commercial contracts.

 

Education:

  • National University of Singapore, Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (Second Upper)

Admissions:

  • Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore

Memberships/Appointments:

  • Member, Law Society of Singapore
  • Member, Singapore Academy of Law

Accolades:

  • NUS Faculty of Law Award
  • APAA Patent Law Book Prize

 

Corporate Real Estate matters which Marianne has worked on include:

  • Advised a family office based in Singapore, through a joint venture with a leading interior design company, on the acquisition of freehold plots of land, and the development and subsequent sales of boutique landed residential properties in Singapore.
  • Advised an APAC data centre platform based in Singapore, backed by a leading global sustainable infrastructure investment firm, on the development of a hyperscale data centre in Malaysia.
  • Advised a data centre operator, backed by a leading global alternative investment firm, on the exit of its data centre facility in Singapore.
  • Advised a global real estate investment firm, together with a consortium of investors, on the review and negotiation of the hotel management contract and the ancillary trademark licensing and loyalty program contracts relating to the rebranding of a premium hotel in Singapore.
  • Advised a leading APAC rental accommodation developer based in Hong Kong, backed by a global growth investment firm, on the acquisition, through a joint venture, of a hotel comprising 17 adjacent commercial conserved shophouses at a prime heritage area in Singapore, rebranded as co-living accommodation.
  • Advised a family office based in Singapore on the divestment of its property-holding subsidiary holding a portfolio of 14 commercial conserved shophouses at prime heritage areas in Singapore.
  • Advised a leading American semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier, on the acquisition of a JTC industrial building, in a high-profile distress sale.
  • Advised a leading American semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier, on the development of its greenfield facility at a JTC industrial property, widely featured in the news as a ground-breaking expansion of its manufacturing and research operations.
  • Advised a leading French sporting goods retailer on the conduct of legal real estate due diligence across multiple outlets in shopping malls in Singapore as part of its expansion plans.
  • Advised one of the largest banks in Singapore on the revised secured facility to a Singapore borrower in relation to the financing of a JTC industrial building.

 

Corporate / M&A matters which Marianne has worked on include:

  • Advised the Founder/ CEO in the divestment of a leading precision engineering company specialising in semiconductor testing and assembly manufacturing, based in Singapore with regional presence.
  • Advised the Founder/ CEO in the divestment of a leading non-destruction testing and advanced non-destruction testing company based in Singapore with regional presence.