Wei Lun Koh | Singapore | Hogan Lovells

Wei Lun Koh

Senior Associate Corporate & Finance

Languages

English, Mandarin Chinese

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Wei Lun Koh
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Wei Lun is a Singapore law qualified associate in the firm's Corporate & Finance practice group, focusing on business restructuring and insolvency. He has experience representing banks, financial institutions, private equity investors, insolvency accounting firms and corporate creditors and debtors in connection with a variety of complex cross-border issues including debt restructurings, distressed M&A, the use of court driven insolvency procedures, strategic advisory and enforcement litigation.

Representative experience

Advised the senior unsecured noteholders in the high profile SG$3.5bn restructuring of the Hyflux group, a Singapore-listed global leader in sustainable water and energy solutions.*

Advised Borrelli Walsh in relation to a proposed scheme of arrangement by The Working Capitol group of companies. 

Advised I.M. Skaugen SE in the first restructuring of a foreign company in Singapore. The reported judgment, Re IM Skaugen SE [2019] 3 SLR 979, remains the leading authority under Singapore law.*

Represented the committee of holders of Medium-Term Notes issued by an offshore oil and gas support company in the successful restructuring of the debtor company.*

Represented a trading company in its restructuring, which is complicated by the credit crunch following the COVID-19 pandemic and the fraud allegations surrounding key industry players.*

Represented the liquidator of two subsidiaries of a major telecommunications company listed in Indonesia in his conduct of the companies’ liquidation.*

Represented the liquidators of a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed company in the successful application for the recognition of the liquidation order and the repatriation of funds held in Singapore.*

Advised a multinational investment bank on the risks of its proposed financing structure for the discharge of the indebtedness incurred by an integrated logistics services provider facing insolvency.*

Advised a multinational investment fund in a joint venture acquisition of distressed assets in India.*

*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.

Credentials

Education
  • LLB, Singapore Management University, Magna Cum Laude, 2015
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Singapore