Alun Evans

Examples of Alun’s experience include advising on the following matters:

• Macquarie Asset Management, Macquarie Asia Infrastructure Fund and their affiliates on, amongst other deals:
  • The sale of BSCPL Aurang Tollway and BSCPL Infrastructure, the operators of a toll roads portfolio in India, to KKR-backed Highways Infrastructure Trust.
  • The sale of Central Tanks Terminal, the operator of a chemical storage business in Japan, to KKR.
  • The sale of Philippine Coastal Storage & Pipeline Corporation, the operator of the largest petroleum import storage facility in the Philippines, to Keppel Infrastructure Trust and Metro Pacific Investments Corporation.
  • The sale of Stride Climate Investments, a solar generation platform in India, to Actis.
  • The sale of its interests in Formosa 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan.
• Stonepeak on various transactions in the digital infrastructure and energy transition space.
• Partners Group on various transactions in the energy transition and real estate/logistics space, including its investment into five industrial real estate assets in Singapore alongside JD Properties and Eza Hill and its investment into a logistics warehouse business in South Korea.
• Aboitiz Equity Ventures on the acquisition of Gold Coin, one of Asia’s largest agribusinesses operating across 11 countries in Asia, including Singapore, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.
• EdgeConnex on:
  • The acquisition of a data center business (PT Graha Teknologi Nusantara) from PT Multipolar Technology and Mitsui, plus the subsequent joint venture arrangements, financings, land acquisitions, and various other matters relating to EdgeConnex’s Indonesian operations.
  • The 50:50 joint venture, AdaniConneX Private Limited, with Adani Enterprises Limited to acquire, develop, and operate data center facilities throughout India.
  • The joint venture with Aboitiz Infrastructure to acquire, develop, and operate data center facilities throughout the Philippines.
• Sime Darby on multiple transactions with Google to build and develop data centers in Malaysia.
• Sumitomo Corporation and other Japanese investors on their investment into Sunseap Group Pte. Ltd., a clean energy solutions provider in the APAC region covering multiple jurisdictions, including Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Sembcorp on the acquisition of Gelex, the operator of a renewable energy platform in Vietnam.
• Engie on the disposal of its geothermal assets in Indonesia, including the sale of Rantau Dedap, Muara Laboh, and Rajabasa projects to a combination of Sumitomo Corp, Inpex, Marubeni, and Tohoku Electric.
• Mitsui & Co. on its approx. US$1 billion investment by way of convertible bonds in and strategic alliance with CT Corp Group. CT Corp is one of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates operating across media, travel, infrastructure, energy, and FIG.
• General Atlantic on (i) its Series C fundraising investment into Kumu, a Philippines-based livestream platform; and (ii) on its Series D investment into Biofourmis, a healthtech business based in Singapore.
• Jollibee on: (i) investment into International Coffee & Tea, LLC, which owns and operates the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf international chain of coffee stores and franchises; and (ii) acquisition of Tim Ho Wan.
• Baring Private Equity Asia on an investment by a consortium led by it and Alibaba in The CrownX, the integrated consumer retail arm of Masan Group, one of Vietnam’s largest conglomerates.
• Central, one of the largest supermarket and shopping mall businesses in Thailand, on their €1.1 billion acquisition of the Big C supermarket and mall business in Vietnam from Casino.
• A Japanese bank on its US$783m acquisition of 20% of Security Bank of the Philippines.
• A Japanese bank on its groundbreaking voluntary tender offer for Bank of Ayudhya, a major Thai commercial bank. This is the largest ever acquisition by a Japanese bank in Asia, with a deal value of US$5.75 billion.

The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.