Shirin Tang

Shirin Tang is a corporate partner based in Morrison & Foerster’s Singapore office. She advises strategic and financial investors, fund sponsors and managers on M&A and private equity transactions across Southeast Asia, China and the U.S.. Her practice spans the private equity real estate, technology/e-commerce, life sciences and consumer sectors. Ms. Tang has particular experience in club/consortium transactions and in counseling regional clients on investments in public and private companies in the U.S.

Ms. Tang was a lead partner on six transactions in excess of US$1 bn each executed solely or in large part out of the Firm's Singapore office in 2016/2017, including advising Global Logistic Properties Limited on its proposed privatization (reportedly the largest-ever private equity buyout of an Asian company) and all three of its ventures with leading global institutional investors to acquire assets in the U.S  (two of which had deal values in excess of US$1 bn).  She advised IndoSpace, India’s largest developer of modern industrial and logistics real estate, on the formation of IndoSpace Core, its $1.2 bn joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board which will focus on acquiring and developing modern logistics facilities in India.

Ms. Tang is listed by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2017 as a leader in her field for Corporate/M&A: International (Singapore) and is named in the International Financial Law Review's Guide to the World’s Leading Law Firms 2017 and the Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2017. She has also been shortlisted as a "Rising Star: Corporate" in the 2014 & 2016 Euromoney Asia Women in Business Law Awards.

Clients say that “Shirin is our go-to lawyer for high value, high impact transactions.”  They call her “a stand out attorney” who “is able to balance legal analysis against the commercial realities of our transactions and shows incredible judgment in determining the appropriate balance”.  They commend her "business-minded", “proactive, articulate and detail-oriented manner” and say that her "focus and clarity of thought has added value in the company decision making" and it is “a great comfort to work with her.”

Ms. Tang is committed to the advancement of women in the legal industry and serves on the Firm’s Women's Strategy Committee which spearheads the Firm's award-winning women's initiatives.

Ms. Tang received her LL.B. (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and her LL.M. from Harvard Law School.  She practiced in New York for over six years and is admitted to the bar in Singapore and New York. 

Ms. Tang’s selected representations include acting as counsel for:

• A leading Asian institutional investor in its investment in Grab Inc., including in connection with Grab’s US$2.5 billion Series G financing round, reported to be the largest ever startup financing round in Southeast Asia.
• Global Logistic Properties in its US$11.64 billion proposed privatization, reported to be the largest-ever private equity buyout of an Asian company by enterprise value.
• IndoSpace on the formation of IndoSpace Core, its US$1.2 billion joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board which will focus on acquiring and developing modern logistics facilities in India.
• A Chinese strategic investor in its proposed investment in a Singapore telecom company bidding for a 60 MHz lot of spectrum in the 900-MHz and 2.3-GHz bands in the auction for Singapore’s fourth mobile telco license in 2016.
• Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures in its “baby tech” joint venture with Allianz AG for the XinKaishi heart-rate listening device launched in China.
• Global Logistic Properties in the establishment of US$1.5 billion GLP US Income Partners III, with six leading global institutional investors from Asia, the U.S. and the Middle East.
• Global Logistic Properties in the establishment of GLP Japan Development Venture II, a 50:50 joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board which is expected to reach US$2 billion over three years.
• Global Logistic Properties in its US$8.1 billion co-investment with an affiliate of Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte. Ltd. to buy one of the largest logistics real estate portfolios in the United States from the Blackstone Group and the related establishment of GLP US Income Partners I and the syndication of 45% of GLP’s interests in GLP US Income Partners I to two leading global institutional investors from Asia and one from North America. This deal was awarded Global Deal of the Year and North America Deal of the Year by the 2014 Global PERE (Private Equity Real Estate) Awards and recently won the prestigious M&A Deal of the Year at The Asian Lawyer Emerging Markets Awards 2015.
• Global Logistic Properties on the acquisition of a US$4.55 billion U.S. logistics portfolio from Industrial Income Trust making it the second largest logistics property owner and operator in the United States within a year of market entry, and the establishment of GLP US Income Partners II with three leading global institutional investors.
• A leading Asian sovereign wealth fund in its investment in Grab Inc.
• Cordlife Group Limited (SGX-listed) on the sale of its equity interests in and convertible note issued by China Cord Blood Corporation (NYSE-listed) to Golden Meditech Holdings Limited (SEHK-listed).
• Global Logistic Properties in its US$1.4 billion joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, China Investment Corporation, and Government of Singapore Investment Corporation for the acquisition of 40 logistics properties in Brazil from funds managed by Prosperitas. The deal was awarded Global Deal of the Year by the Global PERE Awards 2012.
• Global Logistic Properties in its US$1.1 billion fund, GLP Brazil Income Partners II, with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and a leading North American institutional investor.
• Global Logistic Properties in the establishment and expansion of its US$2.2 billion fund with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to develop logistics properties in Japan.
• Cordlife Group Limited and Magnum Opus International Holdings Limited in their acquisition from Golden Meditech Holdings Limited of a 7% senior convertible note due 2017 issued by China Cord Blood Corporation, a NYSE-listed company.
• LinkedIn on its China joint venture with Sequoia China and China Broadband Capital (CBC).
• The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of AsiaInfo-Linkage, Inc. in its US$900 million going-private transaction.
• An Asia-based investment company in its co-investment with AEA Investors LP in the €640 million acquisition of part of the water technologies division of Siemens AG.
• IntercontinentalExchange Group, Inc. in its acquisition of the Singapore Mercantile Exchange Pte. Ltd.
• Sanofi in various matters, including Sanofi’s US$520.6 million acquisition of a U.S.-listed specialty pharmaceutical company operating exclusively in China.
• Infocomm Investments Pte. Ltd., the venture capital arm of The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, in various investments in U.S. technology companies.
• Genting Berhad in a Series C investment in a California biotech company.
• An Asian sovereign wealth fund in various co-investments, including in infrastructure assets in South Africa and oil-and-gas assets in the U.S., including a co-investment with Apollo Global Management for the US$7.15 billion acquisition of El Paso Corp.’s oil and gas exploration business. 
• Barry Callebaut in its US$950 million acquisition of the cocoa ingredients division of Petra Foods Limited, an SGX listed company.
• A Japanese multinational in its proposed US$1 billion acquisition of a precision engineering firm headquartered in Singapore.
• An Asian sovereign wealth fund in a US$1 billion+ joint venture for the acquisition of a portfolio of logistics properties in Brazil.
• Petronas in its acquisition of a 30% stake in GMR Energy (Singapore) Pte. Ltd from GMR Infrastructure (Singapore) Pte. Limited.
• Petronas in the development of its refinery and petrochemical integrated development project (RAPID) in Southern Johor.
• General Lighting Company PJSC and The Carlyle Group (as partial owner, through affiliates, of GLC), in its US$60 million acquisition of Davex (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd from MWE Holdings Berhad.
• Citi Venture Capital International in its disposition of its 70% stake in a cement company in Vietnam.
• Premium Lead Company in the US$2.3 billion management-led buyout of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited (Deal of the Year (Large) – 2012 Asia Pacific M&A Atlas Awards).
• The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam in a US$567.3 million investment by Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.