Presentations

Markus Rasner is a partner with Oppenhoff, a leading law firm in Germany. He heads Oppenhoff’s Private Equity Practice and also the firm’s China and ASEAN Desks. Markus focuses on advising international and domestic financial sponsors, strategic investors, and entrepreneurs on complex M&A transactions, with in-depth expertise in multinational scenarios and has built a significant track record in mid-market transactions. In addition, over the past 20 years he has built a market leading practice in advising on RWI matters for leading insurance providers.

Markus regularly speaks and publishes on current topics in M&A and private equity and is a lecturer at the think tank Institute for Mergers & Acquisitions and Alliances. He is a member of the Executive Board of the German Asia-Pacific Business Association and in addition to his role at Oppenhoff, Markus serves as Honorary Consul-General of the Republic of Singapore in Frankfurt.

Kyle LEE is the Co-Head of WongPartnership’s WPGrow: Start-Up/Venture Capital Practice. Additionally, he is also a Partner in WongPartnership LLP’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and FinTech Practices.

Kyle founded the WPGrow Start-Up / Venture Capital Practice nearly a decade ago, which has since become one of the region’s most recognised legal practices in the field. Under his leadership, the practice was named “Law Firm of the Year – Private Equity & Venture Capital” by Asian Legal Business for three consecutive years (2023–2025) at the ALB Southeast Asia Law Awards. It is also the first Singapore-based practice to achieve Tier 1 rankings across all major legal publications, including Chambers and The Legal 500. Individually, Kyle is the youngest lawyer to be recognised as a Tier 1 practitioner in start-up and venture capital law by all leading independent legal directories.

Kyle’s expertise extends beyond start-up and venture capital investments to mergers & acquisitions, private equity, corporate and commercial transactions, and FinTech matters across various jurisdictions including Singapore and Indonesia. His expertise has been recognised by all leading legal publications, including The Legal 500, Chambers & Partners’ Asia Pacific Guide, IFLR1000, asialaw and Asian Legal Business. Kyle was awarded Young Lawyer of the Year at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2025 and was also featured as a Rising Star in ALB’s Rising Stars Singapore 2022.

Given his extensive experience accumulated over nearly two decades in practice, Kyle was appointed as part of the core working group for the development of the Venture Capital Investment Model Agreements (VIMA) initiative founded by the Singapore Academy of Law and the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. Though his involvement in VIMA, Kyle contributes effectively to the start-up / venture capital community through facilitating an increased inflow of foreign direct investment from the region into Singapore and helping effectively consummate early stage financing deals. Further, Kyle believes the model agreements may be used as an educational tool to support the learning of founders, entrepreneurs, investors, and other lawyers, who are dealing with funding matters.

Saloni Shroff specialises in private mergers & acquisitions and joint venture transactions in the general corporate practice group.

She has experience and focuses on corporate advisory and transactional matters, which mostly include Private Equity and M&A transactions. She has represented many large corporate houses, promoters, and private equity funds in M&A transactions and foreign private equity investments. She brings to the table experience of not only structuring and closing numerous investor driven transactions, but also of undertaking the negotiation of promoter/sell-side requirements on several occasions.

Saloni also has experience in advising boards of listed entities, and independent directors on corporate governance matters.

She had seconded with the New York offices of Kirkland & Ellis (K&E), where she was a foreign associate as part of their M&A/Private Equity Practice. Her experience at K&E included advising and executing transactions for private equity firms in leveraged buyouts, minority investments, and advising corporate houses on shareholder activism defences and putting in place poison pills for embattled companies.

Saloni has advised clients some of which include Fireside Ventures, Sorin Investment Funds, Google, and Temasek on some of their early-stage investments and growth stage investments in companies over the past few years.

Claudio focuses his practice on local and cross-border M&A, corporate reorganization, private equity and joint venture transactions. He also advises on regulatory matters involving publicly-held and closely-held companies, as well as capital market transactions and financing. Claudio is admitted to practice law in New York.  He previously worked as a foreign associate at Sidley Austin LLP and senior associate at the international law firms Shearman & Sterling and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP.

Gen Takahashi handles a variety of corporate matters with a particular focus on cross-border M&A transactions involving Japanese entities. He provides thorough and practical legal advice based on his experience of working in Singapore and Australia, as well as at the M&A division of a major securities firm in Japan. His other major areas of practice encompass domestic M&A deals including public deals and private capital, general corporate, anti-trust and commercial contracts. He also regularly advises on labor and dispute resolution matters for domestic and overseas clients.