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Jek-Aun heads the firm’s investment funds practice in Asia and previously headed the firm’s Singapore office until March 2023. He has been specialising in investment funds and regulatory work since 1998 and is considered a pioneer, thought-leader and veteran by many in the Singapore fund management industry.
Jek-Aun is currently a Member of the Executive Committee of the MAS-Singapore Funds Industry Group (SFIG ExCo). The SFIG is a MAS-industry group formed to further strengthen the value proposition of Singapore as a leading global full-service asset management and fund domiciliation hub. The SFIG ExCo comprises senior industry leaders and industry associations representing fund managers and fund service providers.
Jek-Aun has a wealth of experience in private and retail funds as well as listed funds/capital markets work, including private equity/venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, digital assets, private credit and hedge funds as well as mutual funds and ETFs. His transactional and advisory experience includes acting for domestic and international clients on the structuring, establishment, registration and marketing of onshore and offshore funds or managed accounts investing in a spectrum of asset classes, and advising on licensing, regulatory and securities laws issues. He also advises corporate and institutional clients, university endowments, tertiary institutions and sovereign wealth funds in connection with their investments in funds, and assists fund managers with the establishment of their operations in Singapore.
Jek-Aun has also launched a number of tokenised funds and has acted for two of the global asset managers who are tokenising the VCC as part of Project Guardian, the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s collaborative initiative with policymakers and the financial industry that seeks to test the feasibility of applications in asset tokenisation and DeFi while managing risks to financial stability and integrity.
Jek-Aun joined us as a partner in 2016 and was instrumental in the launch of our Singapore law capability (Joint Law Venture) on 1 November 2016. Prior to Simmons & Simmons JWS, Jek-Aun was a practice group leader in the financial services department of a leading domestic Singapore law firm.
