Profile
Azlan Mohamed Noh advises investment banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, real estate and infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, developers and other institutional investors on fund investments, cross-border public and private M&A (minority and control transactions), joint ventures, strategic collaborations, asset acquisitions, and the development and operation of projects across the Real Estate, Digital Infrastructure, Transport, Health Care and Energy and Natural Resources sectors across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
Based in Singapore but travelling frequently, Azlan’s work includes advising a United States infrastructure fund for the acquisition of data centres in Indonesia, advising a global real estate fund on its joint venture with an Australian data center operator for the development of data centers in Tokyo, advising a European infrastructure fund for the acquisition of a wind farm in Vietnam, advising a joint venture between a Middle East telecommunications carrier and a United States infrastructure fund to develop data centres in the Middle East, advising a joint venture between an Indonesian conglomerate and a European energy company to export renewable energy into Singapore, and advising a Singaporean sovereign wealth fund on a joint venture with an Australian real estate fund for investment into Australian logistics real estate assets.
With more than 15 years of experience in Asia-Pacific, Azlan offers clients a network of local contacts as potential joint venture partners, knowledge of optimal legal and tax structures for cross-border investments, expertise in navigating governmental approval/review processes for foreign investment, drafting and negotiating contractual documents to achieve the commercial intention and fundamental economics of the client, and realistic guidance of local markets and practices to align the expectations of foreign investors.
He has completed in-house secondments with two investment institutions on real estate and infrastructure transactions. A native Australian, he has practiced in Sydney, London, and Singapore, and is fluent in English and Bahasa Melayu, with conversational Bahasa Indonesian.
Concentrations
- Complex cross-border joint ventures and strategic collaborations
- Public and private M&A
- Equity and preferred equity fundraising
- Equity capital markets, including REITs
- Corporate restructuring
- Asset and portfolio acquisitions
- Leases and development, operations and management agreements
- Real estate fund vehicle formation and management
- Digital infrastructure customer agreements
- Infrastructure projects
الاختصاص
الاختصاص
- Advised a United States infrastructure fund for its:
- Joint venture with an Indonesian telecommunications company for the acquisition and sale and leaseback of a portfolio of data centers and over 50 “edge” data centers;°
- Bids for data centers to be acquired from and leased back to Malaysian and Philippines telecommunications companies;° and
- Greenfield development of data centers across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.°
- Advised an Australian infrastructure fund for its:
- Sale of a Australia-based global data center platform to a United States mega fund;°
- Establishment of a Singaporean investment platform with an Indonesian digital infrastructure operator and its Indonesian institutional investors for the acquisition and operation of telecommunication towers in Indonesia;° and
- Bid for the acquisition from and sale and leaseback to an Indonesian telecommunication company of fibre connectivity and subsea cable assets.°
- Advised a data center platform backed by a United States real estate fund, a Canadian pension fund and a Middle East sovereign wealth fund with its:
- Bid for the sale and leaseback of data centers from a Philippines telecommunications company;°
- Greenfield development of hyperscale data centers in Indonesia;° and
- Portfolio financing from a syndicate of banks.°
- Advised a global real estate fund on its joint venture with an Australian data center operator for the development and operation of a hyperscale data center in Tokyo, Japan.°
- Advised a data center platform backed by a United States mega fund for the development of greenfield hyperscale data centers in the Philippines.°
- Advised a data center platform backed by a United States real estate fund for a joint venture with a Vietnamese telecommunications company and the sale and leaseback, and greenfield development, of enterprise and hyperscale data centers in Vietnam.°
- Advised an Indonesian telecommunication carrier for its sale of a portfolio of brownfield, enterprise-colocation data centres across Indonesia and Singapore to foreign investors.°
- Advised a joint venture between an Indonesian conglomerate and a French energy company for the export of renewable energy into Singapore.°
- Advised a global private equity fund for the sale of a renewable energy platform (holding a portfolio of renewable energy assets across multiple Southeast Asian countries) to a Thai energy company.°
- Advised a Dutch energy company for the buyout of its joint venture partner for a joint venture holding a portfolio of renewable energy assets across multiple Southeast Asian countries.°
- Advised a Spanish infrastructure company for the buyout of its joint venture partner for a joint venture holding a portfolio of renewable energy assets across multiple Southeast Asian countries.°
- Advised a Swiss infrastructure fund for the acquisition of a windfarm in Vietnam.°
- Advised a renewable energy developer backed by a Danish infrastructure fund for the acquisition of a windfarm in the Philippines.°
- Advised a Danish infrastructure fund on its sale of an Indonesian renewable energy developer and operator.°
- Advised an Australian real estate and infrastructure fund for its joint venture with a Malaysian institutional investor and a New Zealand infrastructure fund for the development of a wind farm in rural New South Wales, Australia.°
- Advised an Australian energy company on its public takeover offer from a Hong Kong infrastructure manager.°
- Advised a United States real estate fund for its sale of a construction and industrial materials company with operations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- Advised an Australian real estate fund for its:
- Joint venture with a Singaporean sovereign wealth fund for the acquisition, development and operation of logistics real estate assets across multiple cities in Australia;° and
- Joint venture with a Singaporean institutional investor for the acquisition, development and operation of an office tower in Sydney, Australia.°
- Advised a Singapore sovereign wealth fund for its joint venture with an Australian real estate operator for the acquisition, development and operation of logistics real estate assets across multiple cities in Australia.°
- Advised an Australian real estate and infrastructure fund for its bid for a global cold chain logistics operator.°
- Advised an Australian real estate development company on its joint venture with a Canadian pension fund-backed real estate developer for the development and operation of office towers in Sydney, Australia.°
- Advised a consortium consisting of an Australian infrastructure fund, a Middle East sovereign wealth fund, a Canadian pension fund and an Australian superannuation fund, for the acquisition and operation of tollroad motorways in Sydney, Australia.°
- Advised an Australian real estate and infrastructure fund for its:
- Acquisition of a stake in a water desalination plant in Melbourne, Australia;°
- Acquisition and development of metro rail assets in Melbourne, Australia;°
- Acquisition and development of correction facilities assets near Canberra, Australia;° and
- Bid for multi-storey carpark assets across multiple cities in Australia.°
- Advised an Australian infrastructure fund for its acquisition of a stake in a port in Newcastle, Australia.°
- Advised a health care platform developer and operator backed by a Swedish private equity fund for a joint venture with a Malaysian hospital operator for the operation and development of healthcare centres in Malaysia.°
- Advised a global health care operator for its bid for a healthcare technology company in India.°
- Advised a Canadian real estate and infrastructure fund for its public acquisition of an Australian healthcare centre operator.°
- Advised an Australian real estate fund for its acquisition of a hospital operator holding a portfolio of hospitals across the multiple Australian cities.°
- Advised an Australian veterinary clinic operator for its acquisition by an Australian private equity fund.°
- Advised a Canadian mining company for its minority stake partial sale in an Indonesian nickel ore mining company to an Indonesian state-owned enterprise (and involving a Japanese minority shareholder).°
- Advised an oil and gas pipeline manufacturer on its acquisition by a Singaporean institutional investor.°
- Advised an ASX-listed Australian gold mining company for its acquisition by a TSX-listed gold mining company by way of scheme of arrangement.°
- Advised an ASX-listed Australian gold mining company for its development and operation of a gold mining project in Ghana.°
- Advised an ASX-listed coal mining company on its top-hat restructure to become a New Zealand company listed on the NZX by way of scheme of arrangement.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Noh prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig Singapore, LLP.
- Secondee, Real Estate and Infrastructure, AMP Capital, 2019
- Secondee, Real Estate and Infrastructure, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), 2015-2016
التكريمات والأدوار القيادية
- Member, Law Society of New South Wales
المؤهلات المهنية
- Graduate Certificate, Finance, Macquarie University Business School
- GDL, College of Law, Australia
- LL.B., Murdoch University
- Supreme Court of Western Australia
- Singapore, foreign lawyer
- English
- Bahasa Melayu
- Bahasa Indonesian, Conversational