Sven Hofmann
Associate Singapore
Sven Hofmann is an Associate in the Corporate group, based in Singapore.
Sven’s practice covers a broad range of corporate matters including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and fundraisings, joint ventures and corporate advisory work. Sven also has experience in hotels and hospitality-related transactions including hotel acquisitions and disposals, hotel operator appointments, branded residences arrangements and structuring of mixed-use developments with hospitality components.
He works with international organisations, private equity and infrastructure investors, venture capital fund managers, entrepreneurs and hotel owners and operators across a range of the firm’s sectors.
Sven is dual qualified in England & Wales and Singapore.
- Advising Yanolja Cloud, a SoftBank-backed leading global provider of AI-based SaaS solutions for the hospitality and leisure industries, on its acquisition of Go Global Travel from a subsidiary of leading global private equity firm Apax Partners.
- Advising Universal Enterprises and Marriott International on the sale of W Maldives and Sheraton Maldives Full Moon Resort & SPA, representing the first ever hospitality portfolio transaction to take place in the Maldives and a deal which won HICAP’s 'M&A Deal of the Year 2022'.
- Advised SIG as lead investor on a financing of Sarisuki, a high-growth Philippines community group buying start-up for daily essentials and groceries.
- Advising ADB Ventures on a Series B investment in South Korean advanced crop technology company E Green Global Co. Ltd.
- Advised Vietnam-based insect-based protein manufacturer, Entobel, on a US$30m Series B financing led by Mekong Capital.
Education
- 2016 · University of Exeter, Bachelor of Laws (Honours)
memberships & associations
- Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
- Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore