Jerry Koh

Banking & Finance; Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Mergers & Acquisitions; Real Estate Investment Trusts

Jerry is Managing Partner of Allen & Gledhill LLP.

Jerry has been practising as a corporate lawyer since 1993. Jerry’s main areas of practice cover investment funds, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions; and he has advised on numerous notable international and domestic transactions. Jerry joined the Firm as a Partner in 2001 from an international firm in Hong Kong.

Jerry heads the Firm’s Investment Funds Practice and REITs Practice. He was formerly Co-Head of the Financial Services Department, Deputy Managing Partner and Joint Managing Partner of the Firm prior to assuming the current role as Managing Partner.

Jerry regularly advises on the structuring and establishment of investment funds, capital markets transactions, M&A, complex securitisation and structured finance transactions, and corporate governance.

Jerry is the leading authority on REITs and business trusts, and he has been involved in the listing of almost all the REITs and business trusts in the Singapore market. He was the lead counsel of Hutchinson Port Holdings Trust in the largest IPO in South-east Asia to-date. Jerry has also been involved in almost all the secondary offerings and convertible bond issues by Singapore REITs and business trusts. He has further advised on a number of REIT listings in Malaysia as international counsel.

Jerry was the former Co-Chair of the Securities Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and is now a member of the Securities and Capital Markets Committee Advisory Board. He is also a Founding Member and the Secretary of the REIT Association of Singapore, a fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and an editorial board member of Business Law International.

Jerry currently serves as a Director, and concurrently the Chair of the Human Resources Committee in the National Kidney Foundation, a Director in the SingHealth Fund, a Director in the Asia-Pacific Institute of International Studies, and as the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore Land Authority. He also serves on the Nee Soon Town Council as the Chairman of its Legal, Contracts and Human Resource Committee.

Jerry has contributed to the following publications in 2024 and 2025:

• The Singapore chapter of Real Estate M&A and Private Equity Review, published by Law Business Research

• Singapore – An Attractive Hub for Private Funds, published by IFC Review

• Singapore as an Asian Fund Hub – The growing trend of “onshoring”, published by IFC Review