Gary Pryke

Banking & Finance

Capital Markets

Company & Commercial

Corporate/M&A

Employment

Financial Services Regulation

Hotels & Leisure

Private Equity

Gary has more than 25 years of legal experience and is recognised as one of Singapore’s leading corporate lawyers, particularly in the field of mergers and acquisitions.

His primary area of practice is corporate finance including mergers and acquisitions, securities and stock exchange related work, and general corporate advice. Gary is instructed by financial institutions and local and international corporate clients.

Member, Law Society of Singapore

Member, Singapore Academy of Law

Member, Law Society of England & Wales

Serves on various committees of the Law Society of Singapore

Some of the more significant matters Gary has handled include:

1. Acted for Hotel Properties Limited (HPL) in relation to 68 Holdings Pte. Ltd.'s mandatory conditional cash offer for HPL. This deal valued HPL at approximately S$2 billion.

2. Acted for the Offeror, a SPV formed by a consortium led by Overseas Union Enterprise Limited (OUE) in relation to its $13.1 billion voluntary conditional cash offer to acquire all of the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in Fraser And Neave, Limited (F&N). The OUE offer was one of two competing offers for F&N, the other being the offer by TCC Assets Limited. This was one of South-East Asia’s largest takeovers. This transaction won the IFLR Asia Awards 2014 M&A Deal of the Year, ALB SE Asia Legal Awards 2014 Southeast Asia Deal of the Year, Southeast Asia M&A Deal of the Year and Singapore M&A Deal of the Year, and was selected as one of the Asian-MENA Counsel Deals of the Year 2013. Drew was also highly recommended in the Corporate & Commercial category for Asia-Pacific headquartered firms in the Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers 2014 report for its involvement in the deal.

3. Acted as Singapore counsel for Australia and New Zealand Banking Group in the acquisition of some of Royal Bank of Scotland's assets in Singapore and the region for US$550 million. The acquisition included RBS's retail, wealth, and commercial businesses in Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia and Hong Kong. It gave ANZ control of RBS's institutional businesses in Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam. This transaction was selected as one of the Asian-Counsel Deals of the Year 2009.

4. Advised STATS ChipPac in the US$2.024 billion takeover offer made by Temasek.

5. Acted for Safe Label Group Pte Ltd, a vehicle of private equity firm Navis Capital Partners, in its voluntary conditional cash offer for Adampak Limited, a specialized producer of customized labels, which was valued at approximately S$110 million. He also acted in the subsequent delisting of Adampak after the compulsory acquisition of its outstanding shares.