Lawyers

Dean Collins

Dean Collins

Dechert, Singapore

Work Department

Investment Funds and Investment Companies

Position

Partner

Career

The Managing Partner of Dechert's Singapore office, Dean Collins is recognized as one of the foremost private equity lawyers in Asia and worldwide, being named in the most recent "The Legal Power 30," Private Equity International's list of the thirty most influential private equity lawyers in the world. He is the only lawyer based in Southeast Asia and one of only two fund formation experts in Asia named to the list.

Mr. Collins counsels clients on the structuring and establishment of private equity investment funds, secondary transactions, carried interest and co-investment plans, team spin-outs, co-investments and other private equity related transactions. Mr. Collins also acts on the establishment of other types of alternative investment funds, such as real estate, venture capital, infrastructure and hedge funds, as well as providing advice to major institutional investors on their investments into funds both in Asia and elsewhere.

Education

University of Cambridge, B.A. (Hons), 1992 The College of Law, London, 1993

Mentions

Singapore

Investment funds: foreign firms

Leading partner