J.P. Morgan has maintained a presence in Singapore for more than 40 years. Today, Singapore is the regional hub for many aspects of the firm's banking operations in Southeast Asia.

The Singapore office, J.P. Morgan's sixth largest location globally outside the US, has over 950 employees and it is the regional hub in South and Southeast Asia for J.P. Morgan's Investment Banking, Equity Research, Treasury Services, Private Banking, Credit and Rates, Technology and Operations, Legal, Finance and Human Resources operations. J.P. Morgan has been a market leader in Singapore consistently over the past 10 years and has been voted the Best Foreign Investment Bank in Singapore from 2002-2005 and was awarded one of the top three foreign investment banks in 2006 by FinanceAsia magazine.

Singapore's business environment, and location as an important hub for South East Asia, allows employees to gain a broad range of experiences across many different countries and strategies.

Singapore is proud to be the city in Asia to host the annual JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge since 2004. In 2008, the event attracted more than 12,000 runners from corporations throughout the city, in an effort to raise money for charity.

J.P. Morgan has a long history in Southeast Asia, with offices in Manila (since 1961), Jakarta (since 1968), Kuala Lumpur (since 1964), Bangkok (since 1964), Ho Chi Minh City (since 2000) and Hanoi (since 1995). The firm offers a broad range of products in each of these countries.

With one of the largest investment banking teams in Singapore, J.P. Morgan has been one of the few foreign investment banks to have leadership across the areas of Mergers & Acquisitions advisory, Equity Capital Markets and Debt Capital Markets, re-emphasizing the power of the franchise in Singapore:
• #1 for equity and equity linked transactions (over 70% of the equity-linked market share)
• #1 ranked equity research franchise
• #2 for G3 currency debt issuances
• #3 for mergers & acquisitions advisory

In the past 12-18 months, J.P. Morgan has led landmark deals in each of the Mergers & Acquisitions advisory, Equity Capital Markets and Debt Capital Markets:

• Sell-side advisory on the US$12.9bn acquisition of Alinta Ltd by the Singapore Power consortium, which is the largest cross border M&A transaction led by a Singapore corporate in 2006-2007YTD.

• Sole Bookrunner for the S$1.0bn convertible bond offering for CapitaLand Limited, the largest ever convertible bond issuance out of Singapore. Sole Bookrunner for Capitaland’s sell-down of shares in Ascott Residence Trust.

• Joint Lead Manager and Joint Bookrunner for DBS' dual tranche US$2.0bn Lower Tier 2 notes offering. The issuance is the first ever LT2 issuance and the largest ever bond offering by a Singapore bank.

• Sole Financial Advisor and Joint Bookrunner for the US$163mm IPO of CapitaRetail China Trust.  Financial Advisor on the creation of the US$530m Ascott Residence Trust ('ART') and Bookrunner for its IPO in March 2006. It is the first pan-Asia Serviced Residence REIT listed in Asia and the first listed Serviced Residence REIT globally.

• Global Coordinator, Bookrunner for the US$1bn IPO of Thai Beverage, the largest IPO ever of a Thai company and the largest IPO in Singapore in the past 13 years.

J.P. Morgan is today the trusted investment bank to Singapore's leading corporates. The firm achieved this through innovation, first-class execution and leadership in its solutions-centred approach to clients.