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MoFo Global PE Trends 2023 and Outlook Report 2024 - Southeast Asia Focus

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In this installment of MoFo's Global PE Trends and Outlook video series, Singapore Partners Shirin Tang, Lip Kian Ang, and Steven Tran share the Southeast Asia regional highlights from the firm's 2024 Global PE Trends report. 

In this installment of MoFo's Global PE Trends and Outlook video series, Singapore partners Shirin Tang, Lip Kian Ang, and Steven Tran share the Southeast Asia regional highlights from the firm's <a href="/resources/insights/240111-mofo-global-pe-trends-2023-and-outlook-for-2024" target="_self">2024 Global PE Trends report</a>.<div data-reactroot=""><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/911382679?h=35945b2348&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479" frameBorder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%" title="MoFo Global PE Trends 2023 and Outlook Report 2024 - Southeast Asia Focus"></iframe><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script></div>

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Steven Tran is a PE partner based in Morrison Foerster’s Singapore office. He has extensive experience advising global and regional sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as multinational corporations operating in the Asia Pacific region, on their complex multi‑jurisdictional PE and M&A transactions. He is active on deals across all of Southeast Asia, and focuses on the Consumer, Industrials, Business Services, Technology, and Real Estate sectors.Steven supports his financial sponsor clients and their portfolio companies in their corporate transactions across the Asia Pacific region, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia, including LimeTree Capital, CITIC Capital, Permira, EQT, and other leading investors.Steven is highly regarded by clients as “one of the best PE/M&A lawyers in town, with a work ethic and passion for his clients that is second to none.” He is described as “hands-on, commercial and immensely knowledgeable about all aspects of M&A and private equity” and “always on top of the key issues.” Clients also comment that Steven has “impeccable client service and responsiveness.”Based in Asia for over 22 years, Steven has worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney. He speaks English, Vietnamese, and Japanese.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>A Southeast Asian sovereign wealth fund in its commercial and residential real estate co-investment in Vietnam.</li><li>A global private equity fund in its proposed acquisition of a Singapore fintech company.</li><li>LimeTree Capital in the disposal of its portfolio of real estate assets in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Palau; its Indonesian joint venture to acquire and develop a real estate project in Bali; its joint venture with a Thai partner in respect of Thai real estate investments; the offshore shareholders’ agreement relating to its acquisition of real estate assets in Japan; and the post-completion restructuring of its investment in a Chinese car park management business.</li><li>Founder of Hop Lun Group (an international fashion lingerie and swimwear company with operations in Indonesia, Bangladesh, China, and Hong Kong) in his sale of a controlling stake to Platinum Equity.</li><li>Tricor Group (a former portfolio company of Permira) in the restructuring of its Vietnam and Thailand operations, and its acquisitions of Richful Deyong, Madison Pacific Group, and a Japanese business services company.</li><li>GPA Global (a portfolio company of EQT Partners) in its acquisition of the European packaging manufacturing business of ASG Print Holdings (a portfolio company of Atlas Holdings).</li><li>Unified Industrial Group (a logistics and industrial real estate asset manager with operations in Japan, China, and Hong Kong) in an equity investment from Macquarie Asset Management.</li></ul>

Steven Tran

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Private Equity Investments + Buyouts

Southeast Asia