Asia Pacific

Withers represented an Australian celebrity in the acquisition of US real estate assets through an inbound holding structure.

Withers advised two executives and their families in the strategic restructuring of their global assets and income to mitigate adverse tax consequences to their existing global estate structures.

Withers represented the US-citizen spouse of an Australian investment firm founder in their cross-border US-Australian estate planning.

Formation of joint venture covering HK, Singapore and Australia, and advising on related employee share option scheme and general corporate matters

Defended claims by contractor for profit on project under an EPC Contract – overall disputed amount exceeded USD10 bn.  

Advised the manager of CDL Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust in connection with CDL Hospitality Trust’s divestment of Novotel Brisbane Australia.

Our UK and Boston Life Sciences team acts as General Counsel for In3Bio, an international biotech company on all legal matters worldwide dealing with high value negotiations and contracts with third parties including pre-clinical trials and Phase III clinical trials.

Advised a syndicate of 21 banks in an up to US$900 million sustainability-linked loan (the "SLL") granted to APRIL International Enterprise Pte. Ltd. ("AIE") in 2022. AIE is one of the world's largest producers of pulp and paper. The SLL was AIE's first sustainability-linked loan under which it has committed to meeting certain ESG targets and the eighth cross border loan of a series of loan financings which is collateralised by a common security pool granted by the APRIL group of companies across 10 jurisdictions.

Represented MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Crédit Agricole CIB on their provision of a loan facility to AirTrunk. The loan facility was the first data center green loan in Japan and will be used to finance the development of Airtrunk’s newest hyperscale data center in Tokyo.