Malika Chandrasegaran
Malika is an APAC corporate partner specialising in mergers & acquisitions, private capital transactions and joint ventures.
Malika is an experienced corporate transactional partner. She specialises in private capital transactions, public and private M&A, joint ventures, demergers and distressed M&A across Asia-Pacific.
Malika advises clients across a broad range of sectors, with a focus on transactions in the technology, media and telecommunications sector, as well as consumer, healthcare, infrastructure and financial services.
Malika is currently based in Singapore and has also spent a number of years as a partner in the firm’s corporate practice in Australia.
Clients have described Malika as a “master in action”, “incredibly responsive”, “commercial” and having an “amazing analytical mind”.
Malika is recognised in Best Lawyers and also as notable practitioner by IFLR1000.
Malika is recognised by 2026 APAC Legal 500 rankings as a Leading Partner in Corporate/M&A.
Malika has also published on a range of topics in corporate law, including on foreign investment and joint ventures.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
Private capital and general M&A
- Morrison on the establishment of Polaris, an Asia Pacific cold chain logistics platform, through the acquisition of SuperFreeze Singapore, a Singapore based cold chain logistics provider serving the food & beverage and pharmaceutical sectors
- EQT Infrastructure on its acquisition of Icon Group (a leading cancer care provider) from a consortium including Goldman Sachs Asset Management, QIC and Pagoda
- Origin Energy on its A$18.7 billion acquisition by a consortium consisting of Brookfield Asset Management (together with its partners and investors, GIC and Temasek) and EIG Partners.
- Capilano Honey Limited on the A$190 million takeover by private equity funds Roc Partners and Wattle Hill
- Perpetual Limited, a global asset manager, on its $2.3b acquisition of listed Pendal Group Limited
- AccorHotels on its proposed A$1.2 billion acquisition of Mantra Group by way of scheme of arrangement
- BHP Billiton on its demerger of its aluminium, manganese and selected nickel and coal assets through the creation and listing of South32
TMT M&A
- TPG Telecom on its A$16.5 billion merger with Vodafone Hutchison Australia
- Demerger and listing of TPG Telecom’s Singapore business, Tuas Limited
- Uber on its acquisition of Car Next Door, a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform
- FNZ UK, on its acquisition of GBST Holdings Limited, a listed fintech company
- iProperty on its A$750 million acquisition by realestate.com.au
- Zeetings (an interactive presentation software company) on its sale to Canva
- JCDecaux on its A$1.1 billion acquisition of APN Outdoor
- Fairfax Media on the separation and spin-off of Domain, which listed as a standalone entity with an initial market capitalisation of A$2.2 billion
- Seven West Media on the sale of its magazine business (Pacific Magazines) to Bauer Media
Background
Malika holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Distinction) from the University of New South Wales.
