Our Founding Years
The PrimePartners Group (PPG) was founded in 1994 by the late Mr Ng Soo Peng, Mr Quek Peck Lim, Mr Teo Ek Tor and Mr Hsieh Fu Hua, former senior Morgan Grenfell executives.
PPG first established PrimeEast Capital together with ECICS and The Bank of East Asia Limited for the purpose of building an investment banking business in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
In 1997, PPG entered into a joint venture with Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) to build BNP's investment banking business in Asia ex-Japan. This joint venture acquired various securities entities including Peregrine's stockbroking and corporate finance operations in Hong Kong and Greater China which created BNP Prime Peregrine. When PPG sold its interest in BNP Prime Peregrine in late 1999, the organization had grown into a major investment banking and stockbroking group in Asia employing over 600 people.
Establising Of Our Corporate Finance Business
PrimePartners Corporate Finance (PPCF) was formed by PPG in 2003. We commenced our corporate finance business in Singapore after obtaining our Capital Markets Services licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Based in Singapore, we undertake advisory and capital-raising projects covering South-East Asia and Greater China. Since inception, we have completed over 70 listings and over 270 advisory engagements. We are also a proud member firm of Oaklins, the world’s leading M&A alliance with over 850 advisers collaborating in over 45 countries.
In February 2008, PPCF was approved as one of the pioneer batch of 7 Full Sponsors for Catalist, the listing platform of the Singapore Exchange for growth companies, and we are the most active sponsor on Catalist.