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‘Work at Dymon Asia is never mundane or routine,’ says Jason Eng, general counsel and compliance head of leading alternative asset manager Dymon Asia. During his time at the company, Eng has been party to, in his words ‘seminal achievements tracking the major milestones in Dymon Asia’s corporate history and transformation’. These ‘milestones’ include establishing the business’s first private equity fund and its subsequent portfolio investments, overseeing from a legal perspective Temasek’s $500m venture with Dymon Asia to back new hedge fund managers and strategies; as well as setting up Dymon Asia’s UK office. Some of his biggest challenges, he says, have been adapting to ‘the never-ending wave of financial services and other regulations which affect hedge fund and private equity fund managers’, including Dodd-Frank Act, FATCA, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering legislation. As general counsel, he points to the need to be a ‘“jack of all trades”’, and to ‘grasp and dissect varied issues quickly’.