High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat (Chinese: 邱德拔; pinyin: Qiū D b ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī Khu Tik-pua̍t) a banker and hotel owner, who, with an estimated fortune of $4.3 billion, was formerly Singapore's wealthiest man. He owned the Goodwood Group of boutique hotels in London and Singapore and was the largest single shareholder of Britain's Standard Chartered Bank. The bulk of his fortune came from shares in British bank Standard Chartered, which he bought up in the 1980s to help thwart Lloyds Bank's proposed acquisition which many financiers deemed hostile. The Goodwood Park Hotel in Singapore, built in 1900, is a historic landmark that recently underwent restoration.
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