Global law firm White & Case LLP today announced that Jonathan Olier has joined the Firm’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice as counsel in Singapore.
Jonathan joins White & Case from Clifford Chance, where he spent eleven years working on a broad range of transactions involving cross-border M&A, sovereign wealth, private equity, restructurings, joint ventures and related corporate matters. Since 1998, Jonathan has worked in London, Paris, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. He relocated from Abu Dhabi effective on July 16, 2010.
“We are delighted to have someone of Jonathan’s calibre join us to assist with continuing to develop the Firm’s fast-growing regional M&A practice,” said William Kirschner, White & Case partner who leads the Asia M&A practice.
Fluent in English and French, Jonathan has advised multinational corporations, private equity, sovereign funds, investment banks and other corporates on a range of cross-border mergers, restructurings, acquisitions and joint ventures in particular in the infrastructure, banking, telecom, real estate and oil & gas sectors.
The arrival of Jonathan continues the growth of the Singapore office. Since January, the Firm has added five lawyers in Singapore, including renowned intellectual property lawyer David Llewelyn and international arbitration partner Aloke Ray and local partner Nandakumar Ponniya. In 2009, the Singapore office welcomed three new partners – M&A partner William Kirschner, project and asset finance local partner Sebastian Buss and banking partner Kate Allchurch – as well as the return of banking partner Guan Feng Chen who returned to lead the Singapore law finance practice after completing his secondment to the Firm’s Hong Kong office. The Singapore office was also strengthened by the addition of three counsel: Indonesia specialist Charlie Wilson, investment funds lawyer Emily Low and the promotion of capital markets lawyer Sin Teck Lim.
Established in 1983, the White & Case’s Singapore office serves as a key hub for business in the Asian region. Lawyers from the office have advised on a number of key deals across the region, including the international law issues on the sale by Rajawali Group of a stake in PT Semen Gresik, the largest block trade ever done in Indonesia, and Lehman Brothers in the restructuring and disposal of its India portfolio, valued at approximately US$3 billion. In December 2008, White & Case was named one of only six foreign law firms to be granted a licence to practise Singapore law in permitted areas under the new Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) Scheme.
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