Simmons & Simmons

Financial Markets

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.