Shahin Foroughian

I am a corporate lawyer based in Singapore and I specialise in complex cross-border M&A deals (particularly around Southeast Asia) and Warranty and Indemnity (W&I) insurance.

Having spent a significant portion of my career in Singapore, I have worked on and successfully executed deals in numerous sectors (including the financial services and energy and utilities sectors) across all of Southeast Asia and the wider region.

This experience has provided me with intimate knowledge of this region's many unique traits and complexities when it comes to getting deals done and I really enjoy being able to leverage that to help guide clients and financial advisors through to closing (whether it's an acquisition, disposal, auction, joint venture, strategic alliance or helping W&I underwriters vet deals they are keen to insure).

I have lived and worked in New Zealand, London and Singapore in both in-house and private practice roles. My time as an in-house lawyer gave me invaluable experience in what it is like to be a client and taught me the importance of being efficient, commercial and good at problem-solving. My time in private practice has allowed me to further practice and develop these skills and taught me the value of being a proactive project manager in my role as a lawyer. All of these lessons continue to guide my approach and I keep these insights at the core of how I work and the Legal500 directory has recognised me for this work.

• Advised a listed Indonesian company in the sustainable commodity sector on a carve-out restructure and sale to a consortium of buyers from Japan and Southeast Asia. The deal involved the creation of a new entity into which the business division to be sold was transferred from various entities and the subsequent sale of a majority stake in that entity for ~350m.
• Advised an infrastructure fund on its ~300m investment into a sustainable infrastructure business with operations across Southeast Asia and India.
• Advised a market-leading global insurance company on various transactions across Southeast Asia including a ~500million dollar disposal which closed successfully following a competitive auction process.
• Advised an Indonesian state-owned enterprise in the utility and infrastructure sector in its entry into a long-term strategic partnership with a listed Japanese company and a sale of a minority interest in an entity in its group to the same partner for ~220m.
• Advised a Taiwan-based energy developer in its sell-down and entry into a joint venture with a leading international renewable company, setting up a vehicle to bid for, develop and operate offshore wind projects in Taiwan.