Novara Advisory Partners in Singapore: our base for Asia

Our Singapore office is located at OUE Downtown, in the heart of the Central Business District. Singapore is Novara's base for Asia and Southeast Asia, and a natural meeting point for the investors, funds and growth companies we advise across the region.

Singapore colleagues work together with our other offices in Tokyo, London and New York, and we operate as one integrated firm.

From Singapore, Novara Law advises on international corporate transactions, including:

• Venture capital and private equity investments, including direct and secondary investments and financing rounds

• Cross-border M&A, co-investments and restructurings

• Fund investments for global strategic investors, asset managers and growth investors

• Support for emerging growth and venture-backed companies throughout their lifecycle

Novara Ignosi, our investment banking and deal advisory practice, is led out of Tokyo and Singapore. We advise on M&A and strategy, institutional fundraises, buyer and investor positioning, go-to-market strategy and transaction execution for inbound and outbound deals.

Novara Global Capital provides strategy advisory and fund structuring. Clients also have access to our MAS-regulated fund platform in Singapore.

How We Work

Four principles apply to every Singapore matter, as they do across the firm:

• One team, one point of accountability. Clients receive legal, investment banking and capital advice from a single integrated team, without having to coordinate among separate and disparate advisers.

• Senior attention on every matter. Partners lead the work from start to finish.

• AI-accelerated, human-verified. Our own technology handles document review, regulatory mapping and diligence, so our senior people can spend their time on judgement and negotiation. Every piece of client work is reviewed and signed off by a qualified professional.

• Aligned incentives. We link our success to our clients' outcomes.

The Team

The office is led by Ai-Jo Wu, Head of Singapore Office. Ai-Jo advises on international corporate transactions, with a focus on venture capital, private equity, M&A, co-investments and restructurings. Educated in Taiwan, Japan and the United States, and having worked in Shanghai, Hong Kong and London, Ai-Jo spent over nine years at Proskauer Rose and other leading international law firms before joining Novara.

Robert Meyer, Partner and Head of Strategy Advisory, is based in Singapore and leads our strategy advisory work, from market entry and competitive strategy to capital allocation and governance.

Takashi Toyokawa, Partner and Head of Investment Banking, works across our Tokyo and Singapore offices. Takashi has more than 20 years of experience across M&A, corporate strategy and digital finance, and has advised on over USD 30 billion in transactions.

If you are doing business in Singapore or across Southeast Asia, please contact us at team@novara-law.com.

Novara Advisory Partners (Novara A.P. Singapore Office)

OUE Downtown Gallery

6A Shenton Way, Level 04‑01

Singapore 068815