Sven Hofmann
Associate Singapore
Sven Hofmann is an Associate in the Corporate group.
Sven’s practice covers a broad range of corporate matters including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital 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 Pte. Ltd., the Singapore subsidiary of Yanolja, a leading provider of AI-based solutions to the hospitality industry, and a tourism platform unicorn backed by Softbank, in its acquisition of Go Global Travel, a global B2B travel technology company that distributes travel products and services, from Gorilla Holdco Ltd, a subsidiary of global PE firm Apax Partners.
- Advising joint venture between Marriott International and Universal Enterprises on the sale of the Sheraton Maldives Full Moon Resort & Spa and the W Maldives hotel to a global private equity investor for an undisclosed sum, representing the first ever hospitality portfolio transaction to take place in the Maldives. This transaction won “M&A Deal of the Year” at the Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific 2022.
- Advising world-leading European renewable energy developer in its joint venture with one of the largest investment management firms in Vietnam in relation to the development, financing and operation of several multi-thousand-megawatt offshore wind projects in Vietnam.
- Advising ADB Ventures on various Series Seed to Series C investments internationally.
- Advising 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