EXPERIENCE

Marcus’ representative work includes advising:

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Baring Private Equity Asia on its disposal of Interplex Holdings, a global manufacturing business, to funds managed by the Blackstone group
• Cebu Air in its US$250 million investment in the form of convertible bonds from the International Finance Corporation, the IFC Emerging Asia Fund, LP, and Indigo Philippines LLC (an affiliate of Indigo Partners LLC)
• Global Power Synergy Public Company, a subsidiary of PTT Public Company, on the acquisition of a 41.6% interest in Avaada, an India-based company engaged in developing and operating solar and wind power projects
• Golden Energy and Resources Limited (GEAR), an international resources company, on its:
  • Concurrent business segregation and privatization of its existing energy coal business, conducted through its Indonesian listed subsidiary PT Golden Energy Mines Tbk, from its metallurgical coal and other businesses
  • A$67.8 million acquisition of a 10% stake on Westgold Resources, an Australia-based company that explores and develops gold properties
  • Consortium arrangements and acquisition of the Ravenswood gold mine from Carpentria Gold
• Innobic (Asia) Company Limited, a wholly owned life science arm of PTT Public Company Limited, in its investment as part of a consortium in Alvogen Emerging Market Holdings Limited
• Partners Group in its acquisition of SPi Global, a Philippines-based provider of outsourced services to education, science, technical, and medical research publishers
• ST Engineering, a subsidiary of Temasek, on its:
  • Topping bid proposal to acquire all of the shares of Cubic Corporation, a NYSE-listed company, with transportation and defense businesses
  • US$2.68 billion acquisition of Transcore, a transaction intended to accelerate ST Engineering’s Smart City growth and position it as a market leader in Smart Mobility
• United Engineers Limited in the US$354 million sale of its 60% stake in Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc. to Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd., by way of a merger between Dragon Electronix Merger sub Inc. and MFLEX

Venture Capital Financings

• Polaris Partners on its seed investment in Sunbird Bio, a diagnostics platform developer
• Tencent in its Series A financing into MX Media, a service provider of OTT Video Aggregation and an offline media player through a mobile application under the name MX Player

Capital Markets

• DBS Bank Ltd. as sole bookrunner and lender in Manta 2 Holdings Limited’s S$200 million senior secured guaranteed bonds due 2016 and Miclyn Express Offshore’s US$315 million term loan and revolving credit facility
• Fullerton Healthcare Corporation Limited in its US$175 million senior perpetual capital securities offering
• PT Tower Bersama Infrastructure Tbk as guarantor and TBG Global Pte. Ltd. as issuer in its offer of US$350 million 5.25% senior unsecured notes due 2022