Simmons & Simmons

Financial Markets

Jek-Aun has a wealth of experience in private and retail funds as well as listed funds/capital markets work, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure and hedge 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 advised on closed-ended and open-ended corporates, unit trusts and limited partnerships. He also advises on share disclosure issues under the Securities and Futures Act.

Jek-Aun was formerly a partner and a funds practice group head of a big four domestic law firm. He has been specialising in investment funds and regulatory work since 1998 and is considered a veteran by many in the Singapore fund management industry. He has also worked at various other prominent law firms in Singapore and Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, he specialised in funds and regulatory work at another leading multinational law firm.

English, Chinese

Law Society of SingaporeSingapore Academy of LawSingapore Institute of DirectorsThe Law Society, England & WalesInvestment Management Association of SingaporeAlternative Investment Management AssociationSingapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association

Postgraduate Dip.Sing.Law (National University of Singapore), LLB (Hons) (University of Nottingham)