Jess Ong-Davys

Jess Ong-Davys
Biography
Jess Ong is a corporate lawyer based in London. Her experience covers cross-border and domestic corporate transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, restructuring and general corporate and commercial agreements. Jess practises across a range of industries such as transport, social infrastructure, real estate and renewable energy projects.
She has also advised on multijurisdictional transactions in Asia while on secondment to our Tokyo office. Jess is a native Chinese speaker and can also read and speak Japanese.
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
Advised:
- Sumitomo Chemical Company on its acquisition of Nufarm Limited's crop protection business in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Chile (value approximately A$1.1bn).
- Advising Tiger Infrastructure Partners, the specialist in growth capital for middle market infrastructure, on its control investment in Rural Broadband Solutions Holdings Limited, a broadband services provider to residential and business customers in rural areas of the UK.
- Balfour Beatty Investments, a subsidiary of Balfour Beatty plc on the auction sale of its stake in three projects in the UK to a subsidiary of BBGI Global Infrastructure S.A.
- Japan Renewable Energy Corporation on its joint venture with wpd AG group on the co-development of the Saikai Enoshima offshore wind project in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.
- Balfour Beatty Investments on the sale of its 49.5% interest in UBB Waste (Gloucester) Holdings Limited to Urbaser Investment Limited, a subsidiary of Urbaser S.A.U.
- Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha on its joint venture with Knutsen Group on the commercial development of a global liquefied CO2 marine transportation and storage business for the transport of liquefied CO2 at ambient temperature.
- Mitsubishi Corporation on the restructuring of its joint venture with Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha and Toho LNG Shipping Co. Ltd in relation to a collective investment in an LNG Carrier.
- Morgan Stanley, as financial adviser to SPWOne and Phoenix Asset Management-backed Castelnau Group on its £789 million acquisition of Dignity Plc
- Infinity Group on its acquisition of Lekela Power, Africa's largest pure-play renewable energy independent power producer from Actis and Mainstream funds, and, at the time, being Africa's largest renewable energy deal to date.
- UBS Investment Bank, as financial adviser to Kinetic and Globalvia on its £647 million consortium acquisition of The Go-Ahead Group Plc.
- HSBC Bank plc, as financial adviser to CK Asset Holdings Limited, on the approx. £485m offer for Civitas Social Housing plc by Wellness Unity Limited, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of CK Asset
Education
Education
- LLB Law, University of Birmingham
- Accelerated Legal Practice Course, BPP University Law School, London
Languages
Languages
- English
- Mandarin Chinese
- Japanese
Insights and news
News
Tiny Ltd. on its majority acquisition of Serato
Canada | July 21, 2025
Royal Bank of Canada completes C$1.25 billion subordinated debt offering
Canada | July 15, 2025
Aya Gold & Silver Inc. in connection with its C143.75 million public offering
Canada | June 26, 2025
Syndicate of underwriters in Thinkific C$14.5 million secondary offering
Canada | June 19, 2025
DCM Group, a Thrust Capital Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Metcor Inc.
Canada | June 12, 2025
Syndicate of underwriters on Fiera Capital’s C$80 million bought deal debenture offering
Canada | June 11, 2025
Tiny Ltd. on its majority acquisition of Serato
Canada | July 21, 2025
Royal Bank of Canada completes C$1.25 billion subordinated debt offering
Canada | July 15, 2025
Aya Gold & Silver Inc. in connection with its C143.75 million public offering
Canada | June 26, 2025
Syndicate of underwriters in Thinkific C$14.5 million secondary offering
Canada | June 19, 2025
DCM Group, a Thrust Capital Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Metcor Inc.
Canada | June 12, 2025
Syndicate of underwriters on Fiera Capital’s C$80 million bought deal debenture offering
Canada | June 11, 2025