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Ai Jo Wu

Head of Singapore Office, Senior Associate

Team: Legal

Office: Singapore

CONTACT: aijo@novara-law.com

Ai-Jo advises on international corporate transactions, with a focus on venture capital, private equity, M&A, co-investments and restructurings. She specializes in supporting emerging growth and venture-backed companies throughout their lifecycle, while also advising global PE/VC funds, asset managers and growth investors on direct and secondary investments, financing rounds and cross-border acquisitions across the US, Europe and Asia.

Educated in Taiwan, Japan and the United States, and having worked in Shanghai, Hong Kong and London, Ai-Jo brings global transactional experience and a strong cross-cultural perspective. She is native in Mandarin, fluent in English and conversational in Japanese. Prior to joining, she spent over nine years at Proskauer Rose and other leading international law firms.

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AI-JO’S EXPERIENCE INCLUDES ADVISING:​

  • A global strategic investor on private equity and venture capital fund investments totaling over US$200 million across the US and Europe.

  • A leading Taiwan-based private equity and venture capital investor on multiple fund investments totaling over US$100 million.

  • A leading China-based digital payments and financial technology group on multiple equity investments across Southeast Asia, with an aggregate transaction value of over US$300 million.

  • An Indonesian B2B e-commerce company on its US$241 million equity issuance to a leading logistics group.

  • A mobile games developer on the US$1 billion sale of its China subsidiary to a Chinese public company.

  • A leading US-based payments and merchant services company on its approximately US$200 million sale of selected US business units.

  • A leading online payments group on its US$120 million investment in a facial recognition technology unicorn.

  • A leading cryptocurrency exchange on venture investments into digital asset exchanges, wallets and service providers globally.

  • A private equity fund affiliated with a Singapore-headquartered bank on its US$62 million pre-IPO investment in a China-based self-driving solutions provider.

  • A Hong Kong-based private equity fund manager on the restructuring of a real estate-focused investment vehicle with assets under management of over US$100 million.

  • A Cayman-based optical technology company on its US$104 million preferred equity financing.
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