Selected highlights of Danny's recent experience include advising:

Private Equity

• Blackstone on numerous transactions across Asia-Pacific, including:
• asset roll-ups in connection with the NSE / BSE IPO of Ventive Hospitality; 
• its acquisition of the Anantara Maldives Resort & Spa; 
• its acquisition of the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island Resort; and
• its US$525m privatization and delisting of SGX-listed Soilbuild Business Space REIT; 
• Permira on numerous transactions across Asia-Pacific, including:
• its US$2.76bn sale of Tricor to Baring Private Equity Asia, as well as the initial LBO acquisition from BEA / NWS and subsequent bolt-on of NZGT Holdings; and
• its sale of a 50% stake in Grobest Group, a leading regional aqua-feed business; 
• CVC Capital Partners on numerous transactions across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, including:
• its acquisition of a 60% stake in Phuong Chau, an operator of maternal and infant care hospitals in Vietnam; and
• the sale of its stake in GEMS Education, one of the world's largest private school operators, to a consortium led by Brookfield;
• CPP Investments (CPPIB) on numerous transactions across Asia-Pacific, including its investments in:
• Virtusa, a US IT services company;
• Patties Food and Vesco Food, an Australian food manufacturing company;
• Flipkart, an Indian e-commerce company;
• Accion Labs, an Indian cloud engineering and innovation company;
• DailyHunt, an Indian content and news aggregator platform;
• Eruditus Learning, an Indian education platform;
• Acko Tech, an India D2C insurance platform;
• Zenex Animal Health, an Indian animal helath solutions business; and
• Indospace Core, a JV with Indospace for stabilised industrial and logistics real estate assets in India;
• Carlyle on numerous transactions throughout Asia-Pacific, including its acquisition of a controlling stake in VLCC, a beauty and wellness solutions business with operations across India and the Middle East;
• Affinity Equity Partners on its sale of Trimco to Brookfield (as well as the initial US$520m LBO from Partners Group);
• a Middle East investor on its investment in a ports business in Asia-Pacific;
• APG on its cornerstone investment in Monde Nissin Corporation, a Philippines F&B company; and
• HOPU, Temasek, International Finance Corporation and Standard Chartered Private Equity (as members of a consortium) on their US$488m co-investment with COFCO into Noble Agri.

Public M&A

• ESR Group on its US$7bn privatisation by a consortium of financial investors -- the largest HKSE take-private since 2021;
• Citigroup as financial adviser to Boston Scientific in its partial offer for a controlling stake in Acotec Scientific (HKSE: 6669);
• PepsiCo on its HK$1bn PIPE investment in HKSE-listed Natural Food International Holdings (1837.HK);
• CK Asset Holdings (as a member of a consortium) on the proposed US$9.7bn take-private of ASX-listed APA Group; and
• Hong Leong Group on the proposed US$1.6bn privatisation of HKSE-listed Guoco Group (0053.HK).

Private M&A

• Danone on its negotiated exit from a JV with COFCO Corporation and Arla Foods; 
• Alibaba on a US$3bn+ series-round financing for Ele.me (饿了么) and Koubei (口碑), raising funds from Alibaba, SoftBank Vision Fund and other third party investors; 
• a US Fortune 500 tech company on its ‘acquihire’ of an augmented-reality business and software engineering team in the Asia-Pacific region;
• InterContinental Hotels on its acquisition of 51% of the Regent Hotels brand and related assets from Formosa International Hotels, together with the up-branding of the InterContinental Hong Kong hotel -- HICAP 'Deal of the Year (M&A)' ; 
• Prudential on its sale of Prudential Vietnam Finance, a Vietnam-based consumer finance business, to Shinhan Financial Group;
• Hutchison Telecoms on its US$1.86bn sale of HGC, a fixed line telecommunications business, to I Squared Capital -- Asian Legal Business' M&A Deal of the Year, FinanceAsia's 'Hong Kong Deal of the Year';
• Global Brands on its US$1.38bn sale of a US consumer brand licensing business to Centric Brands;
• Wharf Holdings on its US$1.2bn auction sale of Wharf T&T to TPG / MBK -- IFLR Asia's 'Private Equity Deal of the Year'; and
• Tai Ping Carpets on its US$94m sale of a global commercial carpets business to Thailand Carpet Manufacturing Company Limited.