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Nick Davies has deep practical knowledge of strategic investments, acquisitions, joint ventures, disposals, and commercial partnerships throughout South East Asia and the Asia-Pacific region (APAC), which he tailors to each of his clients’ matters. His clients include investment funds, family offices, multinational companies, financial institutions and company founders.
Nick advises clients in their deals across the spectrum of private capital in APAC: from venture capital to private equity. Nick also counsels clients in on a wide range of strategic transactions in the digital infrastructure, manufacturing, health care and hospitality sectors. Clients have access to Nick's deep M&A experience, familiarity with doing business in South East Asian countries, and his hands-on, goal-driven methodology to documenting and implementing clients’ strategic priorities to global standards.
Nick has a sector emphasis on emerging technologies and digitisation transactions, which includes market leading experience in advising on investments and commercial deals involving fintech, data-centric businesses, and consumer-related industries. This frequently puts him at the cutting edge of transactions in the region. His career highlights include advising on the largest M&A deals at the time in the Philippines and also in Bangladesh, acting for investors on one of the first Fintech liquidity events in South East Asia, and advising cornerstone investors on the listings of a Singapore headquartered ride-hailing business on Nasdaq and a Proptech business on NYSE.
Based in Singapore for nearly a decade - at the cross-roads for inbound and outbound investments and deal-making in the APAC region, Nick takes pride in helping his clients to execute their deals and strategies in a commercially focused and risk-adjusted way. His preferred style is to promote collaborative conditions for deals, investments and ventures, and to give clients from outside of the region the confidence to traverse and present themselves in relation to the region’s diverse business cultures. He also remains ready to stand firm and has a track record of helping clients to take control of difficult situations.
Nick has 15 years of experience with premier U.S. firms in Singapore and London and depth of experience gained counselling sovereign wealth funds, private equity funds, and multilateral banks on transactions across Western and Eastern Europe in the early part of his career. Nick’s broad experience gives him the experience to help guide clients through their deal making in emerging markets and other fast growing markets across APAC.
Nick has been recognized by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000 in their categories for next generation law firm Partners, after been elevated to Partner in 2021.
Nick is licensed to practice in England and Wales and is a Registered Foreign Lawyer in Singapore.
Capacidades
Experiencia
- 01Fintech: on its various growth equity investments.°
- A fast growing, vendor-agnostic software integration platform: on its founder-related strategy and equity fundraising. °
- MUFG and its affiliated group companies:
- on its US$200m investment in and strategic collaboration with Southeast Asia FinTech unicorn Akulaku.°
- on its ~US$700m investment into Grab and associated regional distribution JV as well as the proposed landmark de-SPAC of Grab, which set a record for the largest de-SPAC merger in history.°
- Leading international PE backed data center platform: on the US300m+ acquisition of four data centers from Indosat-Ooredoo-Hutchison in Indonesia.°
- Princeton Digital Group.:
- on its acquisition of 5 data centers from XL Axiata and related shareholder agreement and long term cornerstone customer arrangements with XL Axiata in respect of the various data centres°; and
- on the acquisition of data centers and property in Southeast Asia including Indonesia.°
- REA Group: °
- on an agreement to increase its ownership interest in Elara Technologies. Elara Technologies is India’s fastest growing digital real estate business by audience reach°; and
- on the divestment of its Malaysia and Thai businesses to PropertyGuru and its investment into the Property Guru IPO on the NYSE, which is to be executed through a "de-SPAC" transaction with an equity value of US$1.78b.°
- Axiata Digital Advertising (ADA): °
- -on a US$60m investment by Softbank into ADA, the digital advertising arm of the Axiata group, and associated M&A for ADA into an e-commerce fulfilment provider°;
- on its US$20m acquisition of AwakeAsia and ongoing integration work across Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia. °
- Confidential client: on a proposed surfing tourism infrastructure project in Indonesia.°
- Southeast Asian cryptocurrency exchange: US$200m+ potential acquisition by a U.S. listed acquirer. °
- Malaysian contract manufacturing business acquiring a U.S. business.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Davies prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig Singapore LLP.
Reconocimientos y Liderazgo
- Listed, Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific Guide, Up and Coming: Corporate/M&A: International, 2025
- Listed, Chambers & Partners Global Guide 2024: Up and Coming: Corporate/M&A: International
- Listed, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Singapore: Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms, Next Generation Partner, 2024
- Listed, IFLR1000, “Notable Practitioner,” 2024
Credenciales
- Maîtrise, Droits Privés Franҫais et Anglais, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
- LL.B., English & French Law, King's College London
- Singapore, foreign lawyer
- England and Wales
- Inglés, Nativo
- Francés, Conversacional