Lawyers

Jerry Koh

Jerry Koh

Work Department

Banking & Finance; Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Mergers & Acquisitions; Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

Position

Managing Partner and Head of the Firm’s REITs and Investment Funds Practices

Career

Jerry is Managing Partner of Allen & Gledhill. He has been practising as a corporate lawyer since 1993. His main areas of practice cover capital markets, investment funds, as well as M&A; and he has advised on numerous international and domestic transactions.

Jerry also heads the Firm’s REITs Practice and Investment Funds Practice. He was the lead counsel of the largest IPO in South-east Asia to date, and is well-known as the leading authority on REITs and business trusts, having been involved in the listings, secondary offerings and convertible bond issues of almost all the REITs and business trusts in the Singapore market. He has further advised on a number of REIT listings in Malaysia as international counsel.

Additionally, Jerry regularly advises on the structuring and establishment of investment funds, M&A, complex securitisation and structured finance transactions, and corporate governance.

Languages

English, Mandarin

Memberships

Jerry is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) Advisory Board of the Securities Law Committee. He is the Founding Member and Secretary of the REIT Association of Singapore, a fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and an editorial board member of Business Law International.

Jerry currently serves as a director of the National Kidney Foundation and the Singapore Land Authority. He also serves as a member of the Nee Soon Town Council and is the Chairman of its Legal and Contracts Committee.

Education

Graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LL.B. (Hons) degree and an LL.M; Graduated from Bob Jones University with an M.A.

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