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Kai-Niklas Schneider

Kai-Niklas Schneider

Clifford Chance, Singapore

Position

Kai Schneider is the head of the firm's Funds and Investment Management group in Singapore. He is a US qualified lawyer with over 20 years of specialist experience in the funds sector and advises clients on the formation of a wide variety of private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and credit funds. He also counsels clients on co-investments, secondaries and spin outs.

Kai is co-chair of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Funds Industry Group and a member of the Advocacy Subcommittee of the Singapore Venture & Private Capital Association (SVCA).

Career

American University (BA, International Studies) 1998 University of Baltimore School of Law (JD) 2001 Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in the District of Columbia 2003 Georgetown University Law Center (LLM) 2004 Joined Clifford Chance as Senior Associate 2005 Rejoined Clifford Chance as a Partner 2013 Qualified to advise on Singapore law (finance, corporate and commercial) 2020

Mentions

Singapore

Investment funds: foreign firms

Leading partner