Kai-Niklas Schneider > Clifford Chance > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile
Clifford Chance Offices
MARINA BAY FINANCIAL CENTRE
25TH FLOOR, TOWER 3, 12 MARINA BOULEVARD
SINGAPORE 018982
Singapore
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Kai-Niklas Schneider
Position
Kai Schneider is the head of the firm’s Funds and Investment Management group in Singapore. He is a US qualified lawyer with over 20 years of specialist experience in the funds sector and advises clients on the formation of a wide variety of private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and credit funds. He also counsels clients on co-investments, secondaries and spin outs.
Kai is co-chair of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Funds Industry Group and a member of the Advocacy Subcommittee of the Singapore Venture & Private Capital Association (SVCA).
Career
American University (BA, International Studies) 1998
University of Baltimore School of Law (JD) 2001
Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in the District of Columbia 2003
Georgetown University Law Center (LLM) 2004
Joined Clifford Chance as Senior Associate 2005
Rejoined Clifford Chance as a Partner 2013
Qualified to advise on Singapore law (finance, corporate and commercial) 2020
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Investment funds: foreign firms
(Leading individuals)Clifford Chance has devoted considerable resources and senior expertise to its thriving investment funds practice. It represents a long list of regional and international fund managers, along with a number of sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors. It has a primary focus on private funds, with additional expertise in retail funds and regulatory matters. US qualified Kai-Niklas Schneider, ‘the most genius lawyer in the universe’, is a long-serving partner in Singapore, who has built a fine reputation in private equity, real estate, infrastructure funds and credit funds. Daryl Liu is Singapore qualified and another pivotal member of the team. Lena Ng leads the financial regulatory practice in Singapore, while Luke Chen and Chloe Cheng are key figures at counsel level.
Lawyer Rankings
- Investment funds: foreign firms Singapore
- Leading individuals Singapore > Investment funds: foreign firms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
- International arbitration
- Investment funds: foreign firms
- Labour and employment: foreign firms
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- Projects: foreign firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: foreign firms
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- TMT: foreign firms