Woon Hum Tan

Corporate; Corporate Real Estate; Financial Services Regulatory; Trust, Asset & Wealth Management

Tan Woon Hum is widely regarded as one of the rare senior market leaders specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts, especially VCCs and family offices. He heads a team of specialist lawyers in the Trust, Asset & Wealth Management practice.

Investment Funds Ranked as a Band 1 leading investment funds lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific since 2014, Elite Practitioner by AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers in 2023, and top 100 lawyer in Singapore by Asia Business Law Journal in 2023, he advises on fund formation, (including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and single-family funds) using Singapore funds (including VCC) and offshore funds structures (eg. Cayman LP funds, Cayman SPCs and Luxembourg funds). He drafts and reviews the full range of fund documents including private placement memorandum. He is extremely well versed with independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single-family offices, and has an extremely strong track record in securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions. His excellent and long-term professional relationship with the local regulators, authorities and major industry players add credence to his practice. He has advised on and helped clients launched more than 100 VCCs.

Private Client & Wealth Management He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single-family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, family offices, single-family funds, Sections 13O and 13U (formerly 13R and 13X) structures and drafts trust documents, fund documents, global investor programme documents and family charters.

Corporate Real Estate & REITs He advises on structures for complex real estate investments, joint ventures and tender projects. His clients include sovereign wealth funds, corporates and property funds.

He has extensive experience in advising on the establishment and initial public offering (IPO) of REITs. He has an in-depth knowledge of the REITs regulations and industry and has been involved in numerous S-REIT IPOs, post-IPO acquisitions, equity fund raising exercises, debt financing and securitisation locally and regionally since the S-REIT infancy stage, including mergers of REITs.

Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore, 1996 LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 1995 MBA (Finance), University of Leicester, 2000