2024-2025 Global AI Trends Guide
Timothy Goh
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, Mandarin
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Startups and Emerging Companies – Singapore, Chambers Asia-Pacific, 2025Timothy Goh is eager to help and ensure the best possible result. He always thinks about us, our position and our interests. We feel truly valued as a client."
Tim Goh advises clients on a broad range of cross border corporate and commercial matters, including private equity, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, joint ventures, fund establishment, and secondaries.
Mr. Goh has worked in the ASEAN region and the Middle East for private equity, venture capital, start-ups, multinational companies, multilateral development banks and development finance institutions, and sovereign funds.
Mr. Goh also has experience advising on sustainable finance matters including environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters, green bonds and green financing, green funds, climate change and sustainability, public and government finance, regulatory compliance, sustainable debt and equity investments in emerging markets. He was named a Legal 5oo Green Ambassador and recognised as a standout individual who shapes ESG practices, and lead industry dialogues as thought leaders and change-makers.
In recent editions of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Mr. Goh has been recommended for his work in corporate and M&A with clients noting that he is an 'exceptional negotiator', 'very technically competent', 'always available, a problem solver, informative', and 'solution driven'. Clients praised him for providing 'insight on practicality' and 'guidance on how to navigate thorny issues that are often legal and commercial in nature', and that they 'always feel safe if [their] transaction is being handled by him’. Sources interviewed by Chambers describe him as ‘providing excellent levels of service, thoughtful advice, and having acute commercial judgment’.
Startups and Emerging Companies – Singapore, Chambers Asia-Pacific, 2025Timothy Goh is eager to help and ensure the best possible result. He always thinks about us, our position and our interests. We feel truly valued as a client."
Representative experience
Cerberus Capital Management on its first frontier transaction in Mongolia by way of an acquisition of significant minority interests in two groups owned by MCS Mongolia.*
Silkroad Property Partners on the sale of Silkroad Property Partners, a real estate investment manager to HSBC.*
Sinar Mas Group in its acquisition of shares in DANA Pay (Indonesian e-wallet service) and joint venture with Alipay, Emtek and Lazada.*
Bank of Singapore on sale of its in-house feeder fund platform to iCapital.*
Pingsafe, a cybersecurity company headquartered in Singapore and with operations in India on its acquisition by SentinelOne. *
ADV Partners on its investment into Aesthetic Medical International Holdings Group Limited.*
ADV Partners on the $80 million investment by KKR-backed Emerald Media into Global Sports Commerce, a global sports technology company.*
Mastercard on its US$100 million Series H investment in Pine Labs, a merchant payment platform based in India, and various other venture capital transactions in India, PRC and Singapore.*
Naver Corporation and its consortium partners on its US$80 million investment into Carousell.*
Committed Advisors and NewQuest Capital Partners on a US$180 million secondaries acquisition of a portfolio of six tech companies.*
Evermos on its Series C fundraising led by International Finance Corporation with a follow-on investment by United Overseas Bank Venture Management’s Asia Impact Investment Fund II, amongst others.*
ARA Asset Management Limited on the privatization of ARA by a consortium of investors led by Warburg Pincus and AVIC Trust. *
Nestlé S.A. on its S$2.1 billion acquisition of a 60% interest in Hsu Fu Chi (a company then listed on the SGX-ST) and a related joint venture with the founding family. *
Qoo10 on the disposal of its Japan business to eBay for circa US$700 million. *
SK Telecoms on a joint venture with Grab and various other transactions in the South East Asia region.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- LL.B., National University of Singapore, 2007
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Singapore
- Solicitor, England and Wales