Overview
Dior regularly acts for financial institutions, credit funds, major corporates and sponsors on domestic and cross-border financing transactions. She specialises in leveraged acquisition financing and structured financing, including fund financing, real estate financing and data centre financing.
Dior is recognised as an Up and Coming lawyer in Chambers APAC for Banking & Finance International, and Next Generation Partner in Legal 500 APAC for Banking & Finance (Foreign Firms).
Work Highlights
Dior has advised on many of the market’s most significant deals. These include advising:
- the arrangers on the multi-billion sustainability-linked loan for an Asia-Pacific hyperscale data centre specialist, which was used to refinance existing debt facilities and support expansion across the region
- the arrangers on a US$300m secured senior loan facility for a Vietnamese conglomerate to finance its working capital and capital expenditure requirements for its electric vehicle business
- the arrangers on a US$500m facility for a listed hyperscale data center provider with focus on the China market
- a global digital infrastructure company on its bridge facility for the acquisition of more than 4,200 telecommunications towers from one of Indonesia’s leading digital telecoms providers
- Deutsche Bank AG, ING Bank, Nomura, Standard Chartered Bank and E.SUN Commercial Bank (as the arrangers and underwriters) in relation to a senior financing for Baring Private Equity Asia VII Limited for the private acquisition of a 31% stake and the mandatory open offer of up to an additional 26% stake in NIIT Technologies Limited (a subsidiary of Kruisberg B.V), with the value of the interim and take-out facilities totalling over US$300m
- Qatar Investment Authority on the refinancing of its S$2.1bn facilities for the acquisition of Asia Square Tower 1, a commercial building in Singapore awarded the Green Mark Platinum status
- the arrangers on a US$310m facility for the acquisition of a private target in the education sector in Singapore
- a leading global alternative asset manager on the US$315m facility for its investment in units of an infrastructure investment trust which owns a cross-country natural gas pipeline in India
- a leading real estate investment management firm on its US$150m and US$90m capital call facilities
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