Timothy Loh LLP

Investment Funds, Regulatory, Commercial Law & Tax

Gavin Cumming is a Partner of the firm. He is responsible for the firm’s non-contentious financial services practice. He is recognized by independent editorial publications, including the IFLR1000 and asialaw as a leading lawyer. Gavin has broad and deep experience in corporate, commercial and tax matters with a particular focus on representing asset managers, investment banks, private banks and other wealth managers, insurance companies, broker-dealers and electronic trading and clearing platform operators. He has extensive experience dealing with the Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”), including the Licensing Department, Intermediaries Supervision, Investment Product, Supervision of Markets, Enforcement and Corporate Finance. He regularly advises clients on the authorization of automated trading services, the formation of private funds, including hedge funds and private equity funds, capital raising for funds, SFC authorization of unit trusts and mutual funds and investment linked assurance schemes for sale to the retail public, private equity portfolio transactions, change of control transactions involving regulated financial institutions including SFC regulated hedge fund managers and Insurance Authority (“IA”) regulated insurance companies, and ongoing compliance issues for SFC, IA and Hong Kong Monetary Authority (“HKMA”) regulated financial institutions.

Gavin started his legal training at Richards Butler in association with Reed Smith LLP in 2003 and was promoted to Associate. He then joined Timothy Loh LLP as a Managing Associate in 2005 and was made a partner in 2016.

English

Gavin attended Nottingham Law School for his LPC between 2001-2002 and Nottingham Trent University for his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) between 1997-2001.