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Position: Principal
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
  • Women Leaders
Bar Admissions:
Singapore
New York
Practice Areas:
Private equity
M&A
M&A - Foreign
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Pharmaceuticals and life sciences
Languages:
English
Biography

Shirin is a principal and co-head of the Firm's M&A practice with 22 years of experience, focusing on corporate real estate and cross-border club/consortium transactions across a range of industries.

Recent transactional highlights
  • A leading global real estate business on the formation of a China-focused data center fund.
  • A leading global real estate business on the formation of a venture to develop logistics facilities in Brazil.
  • A global strategic investor in its significant Series F investment in Gojek, a major Southeast Asia ride-hailing player valued in excess of US$10 billion.
  • A leading Asian institutional investor in its ongoing investments in Grab Inc., a popular ride-hailing “Super App” in Southeast Asia valued at over US$14 billion.
  • GLP Pte. Ltd. in its US$11.64 billion privatization, then the largest-ever private equity buyout of an Asian company by enterprise value. The transaction won multiple awards, including Asian Legal Business’s SE Asia Law Awards 2018: M&A Deal of the Year (Premium); The Asian Lawyer’s Asia Legal Awards 2018: M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia; 2017 Global PERE Awards: Deal of the Year, Asia; and FinanceAsia’s 2017 Deal of the Year and Best Leveraged Finance Deal.
Practice areas
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Investment Funds
Sector specialisations
  • Real estate
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Healthcare
  • Pharma and life sciences
  • Tech and telecoms
Association memberships
  • AmCham 
  • Harvard University Association of Alumni in Singapore 
  • The Singapore Law Society
Academic qualifications
  • National University of Singapore, LL.B., (2000); Harvard Law School, LL.M., (2003)
Address:
Singapore
Tel: + 65 6434 2689 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/people/t/tang-shirin