Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Head, Funds and Investment Management Group

Anne is the Head and Partner in the Funds and Investment Management Practice Group at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP. She has more than twenty years of practice experience in investment funds work.

Anne is ranked in Chambers Asia Pacific (since 2013) as a leading individual for Investment Funds and was given an individual award by Client Choice International Guide as a leading lawyer.   Anne is also selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in the field of Private Funds (since 2014), is recognised in Legal 500 Asia Pacific, IFLR1000 andAsialaw as well as Who’s Who Legal and Who’s Who Legal – Southeast Asia as a leading lawyer in Private Funds (Formation).

Legal publications note that that Anne is a “respected figure and wins recommendations from peers across Europe and Asia”  and “has built a reputation as an excellent investment funds lawyer, with strength on Singapore regulatory work in particular”.  Anne has also been described by legal publications as “a very knowledgeable lawyer” who has “an in-depth understanding of commercial and practical requirements of a business”, who provides “high quality service that extends beyond the monetary value” and is praised for the “accuracy of her information” as well as her “in-depth understanding of Singapore’s regulatory requirements” in the funds space.

She regularly acts in the formation and restructuring of a wide range of onshore and offshore investment funds covering a broad range of strategies and asset classes including hedge funds, fund of funds, fund-of-ones, hybrid funds, private equity funds, private credit funds and other pooled private investment vehicles, as well as in fund transactional and advisory matters for private and institutional investors.

Her experience includes advising investment managers on the structuring and negotiation of seed and strategic investments as well as  mergers and acquisitions involving fund management groups and Singapore real estate investment trusts.

Anne is a specialist in the counsel of complex regulatory submissions and regularly acts in the licensing and registration of fund management companies and financial intermediaries covering a broad range of business models. She regularly advises on ongoing business conduct matters, formation issues, marketing and securities offering arrangements.