2024-2025 Global AI Trends Guide
Siew Kam Boon
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, Bahasa Indonesian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Startups & Emerging Companies – Singapore, Chambers Asia-Pacific 2025Siew Kam Boon is always very approachable and collaborative when working through issues. She listens to clients well and is always readily available to help us in our position.”
Siew Kam Boon is the head of the Firm’s private equity practice in APAC. She practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity and growth and venture capital, with significant experience in the technology, health care and life sciences, outsourcing, media, telecommunications, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), energy, infrastructure and resources industries. Ms. Boon has been involved in some of the largest highest profile transactions in Asia.
Ms. Boon has been named the Top 30 under 40 lawyers for private funds by Private Equity International in 2017. Within Singapore, she has been listed in Best Lawyers in Singapore for corporate law since 2020 and has been ranked for Corporate and M&A work in Singapore in Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific and IFLR1000. She has also been ranked as leading lawyer in the Startups & Emerging Companies chapter by Chambers Asia Pacific.
Outside of Singapore, she has been recognized as a foreign expert based in Singapore for Indonesian Corporate and M&A in Chambers Global and Chambers Asia and has been listed as an India A-lister in the Indian Business Law Journal in 2023 and 2024.
Ms Boon has recently been recognized among Women Worth Watching in Leadership for 2024 in the Profiles in Diversity Journal. In addition, she has been named a finalist for Private Equity by Euromoney’s Asia Women in Business Awards 2021.
Clients and sources interviewed by Chambers have described her as being a “fantastic lawyer”, “have worked in many jurisdictions and knows how to deal with legal teams from different cultures”, “very pragmatic and likeable”, “very sensible and commercial person”, “extremely smart at negotiating" and "She is by far one of the best partners we have worked with.”
Corporate/M&A: International – Singapore, Chambers Asia-Pacific 2025Siew Kam Boon is a very commercially-minded lawyer. She gets the tasks done very efficiently and is hands-on. "
Representative experience
Quadria Capital on its structured investment and subsequent sale by way of an auction of its interests in an Indonesian pharmaceutical company to a global private equity fund.*
Barings Private Equity Asia in the auction of PT Cardig Aero, an air logistics and food caterer for the airlines industry, to Singapore Airlines Terminals.*
Longview Capital on a private-equity style leveraged buyout of Grindr, one of the world’s largest online networking applications.*
Partners Group in connection with its leveraged buyout of Indian headquartered IT services company, CSS Corp.*
Capital Square Partners in connection with its acquisition of and subsequent exit from its portfolio company, Indecomm Corporation. *
Capital Square Partners on its acquisition of Trianz, a UK incorporated company that offers IT consulting and business strategy services. *
Cerberus Capital Management on its acquisition of a significant minority interest in Mongolian FMCG and Telco assets, representing the largest private equity transaction in Mongolian history. *
ADV Partners, a regional private equity fund on its acquisition of a global floor manufacturing group and a global sports technology compoany. *
SilkRoad Property Partners, a Singapore-headquartered private equity real estate firm, in connection with its sale of its fund management platform to HSBC Asset Management. *
Graas Pte Ltd, a Singapore-incorporated e-commerce enabler platform on its fundraise and its subsequent acquisition of, and investments into, Shoptimize Inc and SellinAll Pte Ltd. *
Octifi Pte Ltd, a Singapore-incorporated “buy now pay later” company on the sale of its assets to Latitude Financial Singapore Pte. Ltd., a digital payments, instalments, and lending company. *
SK Telecom in respect of its Singaporean joint ventures with Grab.*
East Ventures on its numerous investments, including into Tickled Media.*
Eurazeo Investment Manager – EIM SA on its investment into Singapore-incorporated Axinan (now known as Igloo), Southeast Asia’s leading full-stack insurtech firm headquartered in Singapore.*
Carsome on its numerous fundraises from Series C to become the first Malaysian unicorn company.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- Master of Arts, University of Cambridge, St John’s College, 2005
- B.A., University of Cambridge, St John’s College, 2002
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Singapore
- Solicitor, England and Wales