Simmons & Simmons

Angelia specialises in trade and supply chain finance across traditional trade products and products that support open account transactions. She supports clients from the origination to the distribution of risks in such trade and supply chain finance products. Additionally, she advises clients in disputes pertaining to such trade and supply chain finance products. With over 25 years of experience, Angelia has a wealth of experience in different jurisdictions and how jurisdictional aspects impact industry rules (eg, UCP600, URR725, URDG758 and ISP98), laws on assignment of financial assets, laws pertaining to negotiable instruments and enforcement over security. She has also been involved and resolved disputes by deploying practical strategies in day-to-day issues faced by financial institutions. Angelia’s unique advisory capability stems from her in-house experience in Cargill, JPMorgan and Standard Chartered Bank where she was global head of legal for trade, ensuring she can provide comprehensive end-to-end advice covering the myriad of issues faced by clients as they manage the interplay of laws, regulations, industry rules, systems and policies in the confines of the organisation’s operational requirements. Angelia is an active member of the ICC Legal and BAFT Committees and is internationally recognised for her trade advisory experience.

Ashleigh Low

Ashleigh is a Senior Associate at Taylor Vinters Via LLC. He works with the Corporate Team.

Benedict Tan

Benedict specialises in asset management and investment funds. He acts on the full range of onshore and offshore collective investment schemes, on all aspects of fund formation and their asset managers on all legal and regulatory aspects of their fund management business. Benedict is a partner in our Financial Markets group in Singapore. He has extensive experience in the asset management sector having advised managers of all sizes on a wide spectrum of matters. He specialises in advising various onshore and offshore open-ended and closed-end collective investment schemes, including hedge funds, venture capital funds, private equity funds and hybrid funds and their managers on all aspects of fund formation. He also has extensive experience advising asset managers on all legal and regulatory aspects of their fund management business, including fund formation and structuring, seed investments, offering rules for offers of interests of private and retail collective investment schemes, share disclosure requirements, licensing and registration for the asset managers and ongoing legal and regulatory obligations, and other issues pertinent to their business such as employment and data protection. He is one of the few recognised as a Next Generation Lawyer by Legal 500 Singapore 2019 and has been described by clients as being “technically proficient and provides excellent, pragmatic advice of a consistently high quality”. He is also recognised as an expert and rising star for investment funds in Singapore by Expert Guides.

Calvin Tan

Calvin's practice focuses on banking & finance. He has significant industry experience advising both lenders and borrowers in relation to complex financing and restructuring transactions, particularly transactions which are cross-border involving Asian, European and African jurisdictions. He also advises on restructuring & insolvency matters in Singapore and the region, as well as banking and lending regulatory matters.

Clarence Ding

Clarence is a labour and employment law specialist, whose work covers the full spectrum of employment and immigration issues spanning the life cycle of the employment relationship (and beyond). Clarence routinely advises on the employment aspects of M&A transactions and internal reorganisations, and assists clients on issues ranging from cross-border restructurings and retrenchments to employee misconduct, disciplinary hearings and terminations. A litigator by training, Clarence also regularly acts for clients in matters involving breaches of post-termination restrictions, including seeking (and resisting) the enforcement of restrictive covenants and confidentiality obligations before the Singapore courts, with considerable success. Clarence also has significant experience in dealing with fraud, corruption and data privacy issues. He is often called upon to assist with complex compliance and regulatory breaches, and to conduct internal investigations into bribery, corruption and white-collar crime issues across the region. Clarence is qualified in Singapore and England. Among his various accolades, Clarence is recognised as a “Next Generation Partner” for Labour and Employment by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific, an “Up and Coming” partner for Singapore Employment by Chambers and Partners, one of Singapore’s “30 Most Influential Lawyers Under 40” by the Singapore Business Review and one of International Employment Lawyer’s inaugural “Tomorrow’s Leaders”. He is the author of the employment law and data privacy chapters in Lexis Practical Guidance. Clarence was previously appointed an amicus curiae to the Supreme Court of Singapore, and is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Association of Workplace Investigators. He is also an accredited specialist mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Centre.

Dax Lim

Dax is a partner in our corporate & commercial group in Singapore and specialises in the representation of venture capital and growth equity funds as well as emerging growth companies. Dax has significant experience in advising investment funds on structuring, formation and global investment transactions. He also works extensively with venture backed technology companies throughout their lifecycles advising them on debt and equity financing, strategic partnerships and regulatory and commercial matters. Dax has also been involved in major cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and investments across a wide range of industries including e-commerce, financial technology, biotechnology and artificial intelligence. Dax's clients include leading venture capital firms, fintech unicorns and emerging growth companies. He is also very active in the venture capital ecosystem in the region and regularly partners with growth stage accelerators and incubators providing mentorship to entrepreneurs and early stage companies. Prior to joining Simmons & Simmons JWS, Dax led the venture capital practice group in a leading technology focused international firm.

Jason Valoti

Jason specialises in structured products and derivatives for the sell side and buy side. He acts across a broad range of asset classes, including non-conventional assets. Jason is a partner in our Financial Markets group in Singapore. He specialises in transactions for large international investment banks and regional asset managers – with a focus on structured products and derivatives. As a band 1 practitioner in Chambers Asia Pacific, Jason has significant international experience in sophisticated markets like London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. His detailed knowledge of interbank markets, asset management, wealth management and investment products gives Jason a rounded picture of the market. He thinks carefully about each client’s specific business position and creates strategic legal solutions to suit. As co-head of the firm’s cross-border structured products and derivatives group, Jason helps our international network operate efficiently and collaboratively. He’s also a regular speaker at key industry conferences and events, including ISDA and IMAS. Jason joined us in 2001 and has completed secondments to our offices in Tokyo and Hong Kong, as well as with a major investment bank. He helped launch the Singapore office in 2013 and has been growing it ever since.

Jek-Aun Long

Jek-Aun heads the firm’s investment funds practice in Asia and previously headed the firm’s Singapore office until March 2023. He has been specialising in investment funds and regulatory work since 1998 and is considered a pioneer, thought-leader and veteran by many in the Singapore fund management industry. Jek-Aun is currently a Member of the Executive Committee of the MAS-Singapore Funds Industry Group (SFIG ExCo). The SFIG is a MAS-industry group formed to further strengthen the value proposition of Singapore as a leading global full-service asset management and fund domiciliation hub. The SFIG ExCo comprises senior industry leaders and industry associations representing fund managers and fund service providers. Jek-Aun has a wealth of experience in private and retail funds as well as listed funds/capital markets work, including private equity/venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, digital assets, private credit and hedge funds as well as mutual funds and ETFs. His transactional and advisory experience includes acting for domestic and international clients on the structuring, establishment, registration and marketing of onshore and offshore funds or managed accounts investing in a spectrum of asset classes, and advising on licensing, regulatory and securities laws issues. He also advises corporate and institutional clients, university endowments, tertiary institutions and sovereign wealth funds in connection with their investments in funds, and assists fund managers with the establishment of their operations in Singapore. Jek-Aun has also launched a number of tokenised funds and has acted for two of the global asset managers who are tokenising the VCC as part of Project Guardian, the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s collaborative initiative with policymakers and the financial industry that seeks to test the feasibility of applications in asset tokenisation and DeFi while managing risks to financial stability and integrity. Jek-Aun joined us as a partner in 2016 and was instrumental in the launch of our Singapore law capability (Joint Law Venture) on 1 November 2016. Prior to Simmons & Simmons JWS, Jek-Aun was a practice group leader in the financial services department of a leading domestic Singapore law firm. Jek-Aun is ranked in the top-tier of investment funds legal practitioners by Chambers Asia-Pacific and other legal journals/directories in the Investment Funds category, winning plaudits over more than two decades for his extensive expertise in this space representing leading asset managers.

Sonia Lim

Sonia is a partner in the Financial Markets Group in Singapore. She has more than 20 years of experience in providing legal and regulatory advice within the financial markets and advising on complex derivatives and structured product transactions. Sonia focuses on regulatory and advisory matters relating to derivatives and structured transactions, including IBOR transition, margin, default management, netting and collateral arrangements and other related issues. In addition, she also advises on a broad range of products and transaction structures across different asset classes (including FX, rates, equity and funds) and repos and stock lending arrangements. She works with a broad range of global and regional financial institutions (including private banks). Sonia is regularly ranked as a leading individual in legal directories. She is often complimented by clients for her responsiveness, concise advice and her ability to relate to the business environment. Sonia is qualified to practise in Singapore and England and Wales. She has worked in major financial centres including London, New York and Hong Kong and having also held senior in-house positions in leading global financial institutions, she brings with her an in-depth knowledge of the global financial markets.

Steven Kaye

Steve is a Partner in the firm's dispute resolution department and specialises in complex construction disputes. Steve handles complex construction and engineering matters. He represents developers, contractors, engineers and architects in public and private projects, particularly in the infrastructure, power and commercial development sectors. Steve's practice has spanned across Europe and Asia for many years, and he is well versed in infrastructure disputes in Asia. Steve specialises in International Arbitration conducted under all major institutional rules and seats. He is also experienced in litigation in common and civil law jurisdictions, and adjudication. Steve is a member of the Society of Construction Law. He is regularly invited to speak at industry wide conferences.

Yingyu Wang

Ying is a leading practitioner in the IT and media sectors, specialising in technology transactions, intellectual property, regulatory matters and funding/M&A of technology companies. She is a partner of our Digital Business Group in Singapore. Having a front row seat to the fast evolving Web3 space since 2017, she works closely with companies leveraging on blockchain across various sectors such as social/digital media, games, music, enterprise software and services and commodities. She has also developed a niche in the metaverse and NFT space, drawing from the combination of her experience in the IT and media sectors and her multi-jurisdictional experience in protecting, commercialising and enforcing a variety of IP rights. Ying often collaborates with other counsel to streamline and provide holistic advice to clients with international businesses, covering a gamut of issues, such as corporate structuring, data (data servers, cybersecurity, data protection), e-commerce regulations, intellectual property and technology transactions. Ying is consistently named a leading individual for TMT law by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and has been ranked by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific in TMT, IP Litigation and Startups & Emerging Companies. In 2018, she was also named one of Singapore’s top lawyers by Asia Business Law Journal and one of the world’s top ten cryptocurrency experts by The Cryptocurrency Magazine.

Yongmei Cai

Language: English Yongmei specialises in cross-border finance and financial regulatory work. She has more than 25 years’ experience of advising major international and local financial institutions, commercial corporations and equity investors on corporate finance, real estate finance, commodity and trade finance, project finance, acquisition and leverage finance, asset finance and restructuring. Uniquely dual qualified in China and England and having practiced extensively in both jurisdictions, Yongmei is extremely knowledgeable and experienced in security on PRC assets and China foreign exchange regulatory issues. Her team is reputed in advising clients on China related cross-border transactions by combining its experience on international business standards with PRC local laws and regulations and practice. Yongmei has also built up a leading PRC financial regulatory practice which focuses on providing international investors with cross border China financial markets regulatory advice. She also has been developing China related ESG advisory and transactional work. Recently she has been assisting Chinese fintech companies in their international expansions by providing regulatory advice, corporate structuring and transactional legal assistance.

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