Chen Show-Mao, after years of advising on deals like Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. (1288)’s $22.1 billion initial share sale, has a new type of offering in the works: His opposition-party candidacy to join Singapore’s parliament.
“We want to help you to ask the serious questions that will make our democratic system of government work better,” the head of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s Beijing office told more than 20,000 people in a suburban Singapore sports stadium in his first campaign speech last week before the May 7 elections.
A victory by Chen, who is contesting as part of a Workers’ Party team in a district that elects five representatives as a group, would more than double the number of opposition seats in parliament. It would also oust Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo, who is leading the People’s Action Party candidates in the constituency. Full story
