"The team offers excellent service for SMEs covering corporate, employee, litigation and capital markets. They really are able to support a small company growing. We have always dealt with a diverse team at Memery Crystal and I believe in that way the firm is lead from the top, and the principles at the top that mandate diversity."
Legal 500, 2022
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Expertise
Darryl Chew is a dual qualified solicitor (England and Wales & Singapore) in the Corporate team at Memery Crystal.
His practice spans across corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, general corporate and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency advisory work.
Darryl has acted for clients on initial public offerings and fund-raising exercises on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market, Main Board and Catalist of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, Main Board and Growth Enterprise Market of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. He also assists listed companies with their continuing listing obligations.
Darryl’s practice also includes non-contentious insolvency advisory, including advising insolvency practitioners on the management of insolvency processes and pre-pack sales and purchases (involving both trade parties and private equity).
He has a broad cross-border practice across a range of industries and sectors (including financial services, mining, healthcare, real estate, food & beverage, consumer, construction and logistics sectors).
Memberships
- Professional Solicitor, Solicitors Regulation Authority, 2023
- Member, The Law Society, 2023
- Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore 2016
- Member, Singapore Academy of Law, 2016
In detail
Recent experience
- Acted for Power Metals Resources PLC in connection with the establishment of a joint venture relating to a portfolio of uranium assets with UCAM Limited
- Acted for Paul Appleton and Paul Cooper of Begbies Traynor the administrators of the online toy retailer Bargainmax to sell the business and assets to preserve customers’ orders and prepayments and the Employees’ jobs
- Advised Investment Evolution Credit PLC, a fintech company operating in the financial services sector and specialising in online consumer loans, on its admission to the Access Segment of the Aquis Stock Exchange Growth Market
- Acted for Zephyr Energy PLC, an oil and gas company in its £3.15 million equity fundraising
- Acted for MGC Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a Main Market-traded European based pharmaceutical company specialising in the production and development of plant inspired medicines, in its £2 million equity fundraising
- Acted for the broker Zeus Capital in the £3 million equity fundraising for Kelso Group Holdings plc
- Acted as issuer counsel in the spin-off listing of a publicly listed shipbuilding company’s investment segment on the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, with a market capitalisation of S$4.3 billion
- Acted as Singapore counsel to a Singapore construction company in relation to its initial public offering on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, which raised approximately HK$91 million
- Acted for the vendor in relation to the disposal of a 40% stake in its company and website, which is one of the world’s most widely read independent consumers’ guide to fine wine to a globally renowned owner of a gourmet restaurant guide
- Acted for a publicly listed company on the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited in the disposal of a subsidiary which holds retail and office units in Singapore valued at S$162 million
Career history
- 2023 – Present: Associate, Memery Crystal
- 2020 – 2022: Senior Associate, Shook Lin & Bok LLP (Singapore)
- 2016 – 2019: Associate, Shook Lin & Bok LLP (Singapore)
- 2015: Juris Doctor, Singapore Management University