Nicole Mao
Biography
Overview
Nicole Mao is an associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, based in Singapore.
Nicole regularly advises on Asia-based private equity sponsors and other financial investors in connection with their transactions across jurisdictions in Asia and globally. Nicole also advises MNCs and financial institutions on a variety of cross-border private and public M&A transactions, joint ventures and corporate finance transactions.
Nicole was recently based in the Shanghai office for a year with the M&A practice group.
Nicole also contributes actively as part of the Singapore office's CSR committee.
Experience
Keppel Capital, a leading owner and operator of data centres across Asia-Pacific and Europe, on its joint venture with Digital Decarbonization Solutions Platform, a digital infrastructure and decarbonized energy delivery company to acquire certain land in Taiwan to develop and operate an 80 MW Tier III-equivalent greenfield data centre campus in North Taiwan. This deal marks Keppel's first data centre project in Taiwan.
EDFI ElectriFI, an EU-funded impact investment facility managed by EDFI MC), Lotus Capital LLC, Maybright and VT Capital on their investment into Freyr Energy, a leading tech-enabled rooftop solar company in India.
Petroliam Nasional Berhad on its approximately US$590 million acquisition of a 29.4 percent interest in the Hai Long offshore wind project (OSW) in Taiwan from Northland Power (a Canadian-listed renewable power producer) and on two subsequent OSW investments in related projects in Taiwan with Northland.
RATCH Group PCL in its US$605 million acquisition of the Nexif Energy Group and on the formation of NEXIF RATCH Energy, a renewable energy platform with wind, solar and hydro energy assets across Southeast Asia and Australia.
RRJ Capital, one of the largest private equity firm based in Asia, on its recapitalization buy-out merger of Fullerton Healthcare Corporation Limited (Fullerton Health), a vertically integrated healthcare platform based in Singapore.
Ooredoo, an international telco listed on the QSE and ADSE, on the US$6 billion merger of its Indonesian telco business PT Indosat Ooredoo with CK Hutchison’s PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia.
Schneider Electric South East Asia (HQ) on its entry into a 40-60 joint venture agreement with a Temasek-owned entity to collaborate for the offering of portfolio advisory solutions and behind-the-meter on-site electrification through MaaS solutions and microgrid technology in India.
Schneider Electric, a multinational company providing energy and automation digital products, on the incubation, establishment and investment in energy management company NaviX Solutions based in Singapore.
Bluestar Adisseo Company, one of the biggest manufacturers of feed additives for animal nutrition, on its joint venture with Calysta, a California biotechnology firm, to develop a feed solution for aquaculture.
Nestlé Waters, a global bottled water company, on the sale of its China water business to Tsingtao Brewery Group Company Limited, China’s second-largest beer maker.
Nestlé S.A. on the sale of Yinlu peanut milk and canned rice porridge businesses in China to Food Wise Co., Ltd., a company controlled by the family of Yinlu’s founder.
IO Data Centers, a major U.S. data centre operator, on the sale of its data centre business in Singapore to Princeton Digital Group, a Warburg Pincus-backed investor, developer and operator of internet infrastructure.
Babilou SAS, a Copeba portfolio company, on its acquisition of a 70 percent shareholding in the Nurture Education Group, a leading childcare centre operator based in Singapore.
Brenntag, the global market leader in chemical distribution headquartered in Germany, on its acquisition of the EPChem Group, a Singapore-based distributor for special performance chemicals.
GlobalWafers Co. Ltd., a global leader in the manufacture and sale of silicon wafers to the semiconductor industry, in its US$683 million acquisition of SunEdison Semiconductor Ltd., a NASDAQ-listed Singapore-incorporated company pursuant to a scheme of arrangement.
FWD Group Management Holdings Limited, the insurance business of investment group Pacific Century Group, in its subsidiary’s acquisition of 49 percent of HSBC Amanah Takaful (Malaysia) Berhad, a Malaysian provider of Shariah compliant insurance (Takaful) products, from HSBC, JAB Capital Berhad, and Employees Provident Fund Board.
Sembcorp Industries on its equity injection in Vellocet Clean Energy, an Australian clean energy solutions company.
Publicis, one of the world’s largest marketing and communications companies, on its acquisition of two Thai-based digital media agencies, Brilliant and Million Co. Ltd. and Brilliant Interactive Co. Ltd.
JERA Co., Inc., the world’s largest buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), in its sale of a minority interest in JERA Trading Singapore (a wholly-owned subsidiary of JERA) to EDF Trading (a wholly-owned subsidiary of EDF S.A., a French state-controlled utility provider), for the formation of an LNG optimisation and trading joint venture.
