Kok Jin Ong
A&O Shearman
Singapore
A&O Shearman counsel Kok Jin Ong is a leading voice in Singapore on M&A and joint venture transactions within the energy and infrastructure sectors, providing crucial assistance on major energy transition deals. As a trusted advisor to impactful clients in their scaling-up of green businesses, he regularly acts for energy companies on joint ventures and equity raises and for financial institutions on their bids and investments.
Key to Ong’s transactional practice is his comfort across a diversity of energy transition technologies. Major and ongoing clients include leading green fuels player Intercontinental Energy, whom he assists on its equity raises and strategic investments, and clean energy platform ACEN Renewables, which sought his advice on joint venture matters concerning its solar power and battery storage objectives.
Complementing the cross-border nature of his client work, Ong is a notable thought leader on how emerging economies can support their green transition journeys, co-authoring articles on topics including Vietnam’s power development plan and how the Philippines can leverage policy, regulation, foreign investment, and technology upgrades to sustain the pace of reform in its wind power sector.