Cynthia Goh Bio

Cynthia Goh is a Partner with the Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets Practice at Rajah & Tann Singapore. She has more than twenty years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, schemes of arrangement, reverse takeovers, divestments, corporate finance, capital markets and general corporate work. Consistently listed as one of Asia’s leading lawyers in the area of mergers and acquisitions by asialaw, Cynthia has also been cited by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as having “experience and standing in the market”, and praised for providing “consistently sound advice”. She has been selected by her peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers since 2013 for her work in mergers & acquisitions, and has been named in Who’s Who Legal for her work in M&A and Governance since 2017 (including being identified by Who’s Who Legal as a Thought Leader in M&A since 2021). Identified as a Stand-out Lawyer by Thomson Reuters, Cynthia has also been nominated by clients as one of the most outstanding lawyers they have worked with and cited as earning “plaudits for her substantial experience on domestic and cross-border transactions across a wide range of industries”. Cynthia also advises on securities laws and regulations, stock exchange procedure and compliance issues, and has been involved in both cross-border as well as local deals. Some of the more significant transactions handled by her include acting for the Fortis group in the high-profile contested control for Parkway Holdings Limited valued at over S$3 billion, the competing takeover offer for NatSteel Ltd valued at over S$760 million, the competing takeover offers by DBS Group Holdings Ltd and United Overseas Bank Limited for OUB (valuing OUB at S$10.2 billion), the competing takeover offer for The Straits Trading Company Ltd, the S$33 billion merger of two fully licensed banks in Singapore, and the S$1 billion merger of two stockbroking companies listed on the Singapore Exchange. She was a member of the Law Reform Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law from August 2006 to August 2010. The Law Reform Committee looks into the reform of discrete areas of law which are not confined to any particular field or doctrinal area. As stated on the Singapore Academy of Law’s website, “the breadth of reform initiatives since the Committee’s inception in 1989 has been significant, drawing on the input of a small but dedicated team of members, who come from the higher echelons of practice and academia”.