Teck Howe Tan

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Partner - Corporate Real Estate and Myanmar Practices. Vast experience in property-related work including sales and purchases, property regulatory and advisory work, property investment and management, property development, leases and property-related commercial contracts. Clientele includes property developers and investors, property funds and REITs, hospitality companies, business space providers, multinationals, government authorities and academic institutions.

Career

Admitted, 1997, Singapore; Mansfield College, Oxford (BA in Jurisprudence).

Professional Memberships

Member, Law Society of Singapore; Singapore Academy of Law.

Publications

Co-authored - Singapore chapters in the Real Estate Finance & Investment Review 2014/2015, Getting the Deal Through - Real Estate, 2011-2013 editions.

Work Highlights

Significant transactions that Teck Howe has been involved in include advising / acting for the following:

- CapitaLand Limited in its acquisition of the Ascendas-Singbridge group of companies from Ascendas-Singbridge Pte. Ltd. The deal is valued at S$11 billion and makes CapitaLand the largest diversified real estate group in Asia, with assets under management of S$123.4 billion.

- Resorts World Sentosa and Genting Singapore's expansion of the Integrated Resort on Sentosa island, Singapore, with the addition of two new themed attractions and two new hotels.

- Deka Singapore Raffles Place LP, a partnership comprising Deka Immobilien Investment GMBH, a unit of Germany’s Deka Group, and Deka Singapore A Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deka Immobilien, in the sale of Chevron House, a 32-storey commercial development located in the central business district of Singapore, for S$660 million to Oxley Beryl Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oxley Holdings Limited.

- Manulife Financial Corporation's purchase of the entire equity stake in DBS China Square Limited which holds the property known as "PwC Building" based on an agreed property value of S$747 million from DBS Bank Ltd.

- DHL Supply Chain Singapore Pte. Ltd., part of the Deutsche Post DHL, in the development and lease of a built-to-suit warehouse, located at Greenwich Drive, Tampines LogisPark, Singapore.

- Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. in Project Jewel - a project for the development, construction, lease and management of the iconic aviation-related mixed-use complex at Changi Airport, Singapore, and in the joint venture with CMA Singapore Investment (6) Pte. Ltd. for the project.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Singapore, Myanmar

Awards