Terence leads SEC Newgate in Singapore and Southeast Asia, and has significant experience in corporate communications, financial communications and public affairs. Since joining the public relations industry in 1999, Terence has been advising on long-term strategic profile-raising, reputation management and issues management programmes. He has advised on crisis communications, litigation support, government relations, community engagement, employee engagement and customer engagement initiatives, and also coached C-suite and operational management teams on messaging and presentation skills, as well as public speaking. His clients have spanned a wide variety of sectors, such as the financial services, food and beverage, gaming, healthcare, manufacturing, professional services, as well as transport and logistics. In particular, he has extensive experience in the real estate sector, providing strategic communications advice on corporate positioning, fund raising, issues management, asset acquisitions and divestments, as well as public and private M&A transactions.

His client list includes ANZ Bank, ARA Asset Management, Ascendas-Singbridge, the Australian Commonwealth Territory, Blackstone, CDL Hospitality Trusts, Credit Suisse, Cromwell European REIT, CWT, ESR-REIT, Fraser & Neave, Frasers Property, Global Logistic Properties, IHH, Income Singapore, KKR, Lippo Karawaci, Northstar Group, OCBC, OUE, Pan United, Sembcorp, Suntec REIT, Thai Beverage, TSMP, Warburg Pincus, and Wheelock and Company. Significantly, he has advised a number of these clients since the early to late-2000s, and has advised the majority of these clients on multiple mandates and projects.

Terence has an unparalleled track record of advising on successful financial communications and capital markets transactions. He has advised on numerous headline M&A deals involving some of the largest regional groups, starting with the merger of DBS Land and Pidemco Land to form CapitaLand in 2000, and the UOB takeover of OUB in 2001. In recent years, he advised Temasek on its acquisition of Olam, KKR on its acquisition of Goodpack, Temasek on the merger to form Ascendas-Singbridge, KKR on its joint offer on United Envirotech, Temasek on the merger of CitySpring Infrastructure Trust and Keppel Infrastructure Trust, Baring PE Asia on its Offer for Interplex, Hotel Holdings on its offer for Goodwood Park hotel, Temasek on its acquisition of SMRT, Jacobs Douwe Egberts on its offer for Super Group, the Lippo Group on its offers for Auric Pacific and HMC, CWT on its acquisition by HNA, a consortium led by ARA founder John Lim on the privatisation of ARA Asset Management, Global Logistic Properties on its acquisition by an investor consortium, IHH on its acquisition of Fortis, and Wheelock and Company on its offer for Wheelock Properties. In the Singapore REIT space, he has advised ESR-REIT and Viva Industrial Trust on their merger, which was the first in the sector, and subsequently on the merger of OUE Commercial REIT and OUE Hospitality Trust, and on the merger of Frasers Logistics & Industrial Trust and Frasers Commercial Trust. He advised Singapore Airlines on its recent rights issue to raise gross proceeds of approximately S$8.8 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also advised Mercatus on its divestment of several retail malls in Singapore, which were some of the largest real estate transactions in recent years. Terence has also advised on about a third of the 40 largest SGX IPOs, including the USD5.5 billion Hutchison Port Holdings Trust IPO, which continues to be the largest listing in the history of Singapore.

Terence is an accredited member of the Institute of Public Relations of Singapore. He served for several years as a member of a Citizens Consultative Committee and various sub-committees in the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC). Prior to Newgate, Terence spent thirteen years with Gavin Anderson & Company, which merged with Kreab to become Kreab Gavin Anderson in 2009. Before that, he was a corporate banker for four years with Crédit Industriel et Commercial, working in Paris, London and Singapore. He has lived in France for more than five years, and is fluent in French. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.