{"id":9906,"date":"2020-06-30T15:18:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T07:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bdapartners.com\/?post_type=bdanews&#038;p=9906"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T09:20:47","slug":"bda-strengthens-senior-team-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"bdanews","link":"https:\/\/www.bdapartners.com\/ja\/bdanews\/bda-strengthens-senior-team-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"BDA strengthens senior team in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BDA Partners is pleased to announce the addition of two managing directors to the Singapore team. Mark Webster, Partner and Managing Director, previously based in BDA\u2019s Shanghai office, is relocating to become Head of the Singapore Office. Lars Freitag has also joined BDA Singapore as Managing Director.<\/strong><br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bdapartners.com\/team\/mark-webster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark Webster<\/strong><\/a> joined BDA in 2005 in Shanghai. He has built a strong record of leading cross-border deals across a range of sectors, including Services, Consumer, Health and Advanced Industrial. He heads BDA\u2019s Services sector coverage globally. His recent transactions include the sale of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bdapartners.com\/transaction\/bda-advises-henkel-on-sale-of-its-asian-electronic-cleaning-chemicals-business-to-nippon-kayaku\/\" target=\"_blank\">Henkel<\/a>\u2019s Asian specialty chemicals business to Nippon Kayaku, Carlyle &amp; CDIB\u2019s sale of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bdapartners.com\/transaction\/bda-advises-leyou-on-sale-to-warburg-pincus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leyou<\/a> to Warburg Pincus, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdapartners.com\/transaction\/bda-advises-kerry-group-on-food-ingredients-acquisition-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kerry<\/a>\u2019s acquisition of Tianning Flavours. Mark will bring deep institutional knowledge to strengthen BDA\u2019s capability in SE Asia.<br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bdapartners.com\/team\/lars-freitag\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lars Freitag<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;has nearly 20 years\u2019 experience in investment banking across sectors including Industrials, Environmental, Food and Agriculture, Financial Services, and TMT. Lars started his career as a management consultant with McKinsey &amp; Co. in London and Singapore. He also worked for Citigroup Salomon in Hong Kong, and for TC Capital in Singapore, with roles in M&amp;A execution, financial sponsor coverage, special situations\/proprietary investments, and structured &amp; leveraged finance.&nbsp;His recent transactions include the privatization of 800 Super Holdings in Singapore, the disposal of Cherry Valley Farms to Beijing Capital Agribusiness &amp; Citic Agri Fund Management, the sale of ECO Industrial Environmental Engineering to Beijing Capital Group, and multiple transactions for Metito Holdings Ltd and its shareholder Gulf Capital.<br><br>Between them, Mark and Lars have a broad network of blue chip clients including Alibaba, Bright Foods, China Digital TV, Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, Shanghai SVA and SinoPharm, and a track record of successful transactions for financial sponsors including Capital Group Private Markets, Carlyle, Gulf Capital, KKR, Navis Capital, and Warburg Pincus. These relationships will complement and expand BDA\u2019s activities across SE Asia, where M&amp;A activity remains robust despite COVID disruptions.<br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bdapartners.com\/team\/paul-digiacomo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul DiGiacomo<\/a>, Senior Managing Director of BDA Partners, said, \u201cThe addition of two senior and deeply experienced M&amp;A bankers to our SE Asian practice bolsters our ability to deliver execution excellence for our clients. BDA was founded in Singapore and New York in 1996; SE Asia remains a core focus of our business, performing strongly through 2020. Markets are obviously volatile this year, but we are succeeding in getting deals done. We\u2019re carefully and deliberately growing market share.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<br><br>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About BDA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BDA Partners is the global investment banking advisor for Asia. We are a premium provider of Asia-related advice to sophisticated clients globally, with over 20 years\u2019 experience advising on cross-border M&amp;A, capital raising, and financial restructuring. We provide global reach with our teams in New York and London, and true regional depth through our seven Asian offices in Mumbai, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, and Tokyo. BDA has deep expertise in the Chemicals, Consumer &amp; Retail, Health, Industrials, Services and Technology sectors. We work relentlessly to earn our clients\u2019 trust by delivering insightful advice and outstanding outcomes.<br><br>BDA Partners has strategic partnerships with William Blair, a premier global investment banking business, and with DBJ (Development Bank of Japan), a Japanese Government-owned bank with US$150bn of assets.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bdapartners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>bdapartners.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US securities transactions are performed by BDA Partners\u2019 affiliate, BDA Advisors Inc., a broker-dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). BDA Advisors Inc. is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and SIPC. In the UK, BDA Partners is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). In Hong Kong, BDA Partners (HK) Ltd. is licensed and regulated by the Securities &amp; Futures Commission (SFC) to conduct Type 1 and Type 4 regulated activities to professional investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9907,"template":"","class_list":["post-9906","bdanews","type-bdanews","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BDA strengthens senior team in Singapore - BDA Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mark Webster, Partner and Managing Director, previously based in BDA\u2019s Shanghai office, is relocating to become Head of the Singapore Office. 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