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Clifford Chance Offices
MARINA BAY FINANCIAL CENTRE
25TH FLOOR, TOWER 3, 12 MARINA BOULEVARD
SINGAPORE 018982
Singapore
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Kai-Niklas Schneider
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
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Investment funds: foreign firms
(Hall of Fame)The practice at Clifford Chance counts regional and international fund managers, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors among its key roster of clients, showcasing demonstrable expertise in private funds, as well as domestic and foreign retail funds in Singapore and funds-related regulatory mandates. US-qualified Kai-Niklas Schneider
advises on the formation of and investment in private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and credit funds, while Daryl Liu handles primary fundraisings, fund secondaries and restructurings, fund investments, co-investments and advisory matters. Schneider and Liu jointly lead the team alongside Hong Kong-based Matthias Feldmann. Other key contacts in the group include Luke Chen and Chloe Cheng.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- Construction: Foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
- Energy: foreign firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
- International arbitration
- Investment funds: foreign firms
- Labour and employment: foreign firms
- Projects: foreign firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: foreign firms
- TMT: foreign firms