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Woon Hum Tan

Tan Woon Hum is widely regarded as one of the rare senior market leaders specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts, especially VCCs and family offices. He heads a team of specialist lawyers in the Asset & Wealth Management practice. Investment Funds Woon Hum advises on fund formation, (including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and single-family funds) using Singapore funds (including VCC) and offshore funds structures (eg. Cayman LP funds, Cayman SPCs and Luxembourg funds). He is extremely well versed with independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single-family offices, and has an extremely strong track record in securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions. His excellent and long-term professional relationship with the local regulators, authorities and major industry players add credence to his practice. He has advised on and helped clients launched more than 170 VCCs. Private Client & Wealth Management He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single-family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, family offices, single-family funds, Sections 13O and 13U (formerly 13R and 13X) structures and drafting trust documents, fund documents, global investor programme documents and family charters. Corporate Real Estate & REITs He advises on structures for complex real estate investments, joint ventures and tender projects. His clients include sovereign wealth funds, corporates and property funds. He has extensive experience in advising on the establishment and initial public offering (IPO) of REITs. He has an in-depth knowledge of the REITs regulations and industry and has been involved in numerous S-REIT IPOs, post-IPO acquisitions, equity fund raising exercises, debt financing and securitisation locally and regionally since the S-REIT infancy stage, including mergers of REITs. · Shook Lin & Bok LLP

SingaporeInvestment Funds, Asset & Wealth Management

About

Widely regarded senior market leader at Shook Lin & Bok LLP in Singapore, specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts (notably VCCs and family offices). He leads a specialist Asset & Wealth Management team and advises on fund formation, private client and family office structures, and REIT IPOs and transactions, having helped launch more than 170 VCCs.

Practice areas

Investment FundsAsset & Wealth ManagementPrivate Client & Wealth ManagementTrustsREITsReal EstateCorporateFinancial Services Regulatory

Office

Singapore

Shook Lin & Bok LLP · Tan Woon Hum is widely regarded as one of the rare senior market leaders specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts, especially VCCs and family offices. He heads a team of specialist lawyers in the Asset & Wealth Management practice. Investment Funds Woon Hum advises on fund formation, (including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and single-family funds) using Singapore funds (including VCC) and offshore funds structures (eg. Cayman LP funds, Cayman SPCs and Luxembourg funds). He is extremely well versed with independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single-family offices, and has an extremely strong track record in securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions. His excellent and long-term professional relationship with the local regulators, authorities and major industry players add credence to his practice. He has advised on and helped clients launched more than 170 VCCs. Private Client & Wealth Management He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single-family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, family offices, single-family funds, Sections 13O and 13U (formerly 13R and 13X) structures and drafting trust documents, fund documents, global investor programme documents and family charters. Corporate Real Estate & REITs He advises on structures for complex real estate investments, joint ventures and tender projects. His clients include sovereign wealth funds, corporates and property funds. He has extensive experience in advising on the establishment and initial public offering (IPO) of REITs. He has an in-depth knowledge of the REITs regulations and industry and has been involved in numerous S-REIT IPOs, post-IPO acquisitions, equity fund raising exercises, debt financing and securitisation locally and regionally since the S-REIT infancy stage, including mergers of REITs.

Singapore

Expertise

Variable Capital Companies (VCCs)Family offices (single- and multi-family)Fund formation (hedge, private equity, venture capital, real estate, single-family funds)Offshore fund structures (Cayman LP, Cayman SPC, Luxembourg)Asset manager licensing and regulatory exemptionsPrivate trusts and trustee advisoryREIT IPOs, post-IPO acquisitions and securitisation

Education

  • Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore, 1996
  • LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 1995
  • MBA (Finance), University of Leicester, 2000

Admissions

  • Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore (1996)