Overview
Dawn Tan is a corporate transactional lawyer focusing on private equity and venture capital investments, private M&A, and fund formation work. She has extensive experience in cross-border deals involving domestic as well as international clients across a range of industries including the health, life sciences and energy industries.
Dawn has experience working with listed and private companies, investment banks, asset management firms, financial institutions, multinational companies, family offices, high network individuals and startups.
Dawn also regularly serves as primary outside counsel for her clients, advising on general corporate governance and operations. She understands the importance of becoming fully integrated with her clients’ businesses and teams and works hand-in-hand with company leadership to steer clients away form and through legal hurdles.
Dawn has also previously served as a Compliance Officer at a Singapore Exchange approved continuing sponsor, responsible for regulating companies listed on Catalist, the Singapore Exchange’s sponsor-supervised board.
Results
Venture Capital
- Acted for the Clermont Group as lead investor in the Series A financing of PostEra Inc., a Boston-based biotechnology company specializing in machine learning for preclinical drug discovery.
- Acted for a start-up company with operations in Thailand with its Series B fund raising activities and implementation of an employee stock option scheme*
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Acted for shareholders of Athena Energy Holdings, a company that develops, finances, constructs, owns and operates renewable energy assets in Asia and Australia, in the sale of Athena Energy Holdings to Manhattan Resources Limited
- Acted for Prenetics Limited, a Hong Kong-based life sciences company backed by Beyond Ventures, 500 Startups, Venturra Capital, Ping An and Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, on its acquisition of UK-based DNAFit Life Sciences Limited and assisting Prenetics Limited with setting up its operations in Asia*
- Acted for the Veolia Group, a global leader in optimized resource management, providing innovative waste, water and energy management solutions, in its divestment of its public waste collection an public cleansing business to Sembcorp Industries for approximately S$28 million*
- Acted for UK based Scott Dunn on its acquisition of a bespoke travel company, Country Holidays, with operations in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Dubai, to form Asia’s largest bespoke tour agency*
Asset Management and Funds
- Acted for a venture capital fund manager in the setting up of a venture capital fund to invest in companies across a broad spectrum of high growth businesses in the digital, data, technology and service industries.
- Acting for Heliconia Capital Management Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, in the establishment of its four private equity funds in Singapore, which seek to invest in small-medium enterprises headquartered, or with significant businesses, in Singapore*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Community
- Law Society of Singapore
- Singapore Academy of Law
- Wealth Management Institute of Singapore – Global-Asia Family Office Circle
Credentials
Education
National University of Singapore, LL.B. (Hons), 2009
Admissions
Singapore
Languages
English
Mandarin
