Mr Ron Cheng > Drew & Napier LLC > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile
Drew & Napier LLC Offices
10 COLLYER QUAY
#10-01 OCEAN FINANCIAL CENTRE
SINGAPORE 049315
Singapore
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Mr Ron Cheng
Work Department
Capital Markets; Investment Funds
Position
Head, Investment Funds;
Director, Corporate & Finance
Career
Ron is the Head of the Investment Funds practice. He has handled a wide range of corporate matters since 2003. He has acted as lead counsel in the establishment of alternative investment funds across various legal structures (such as Singapore variable capital companies (VCCs), limited partnerships, unit trusts, companies, business trusts, and Cayman segregated portfolio companies). He has advised on the establishment of licensed, registered or exempt fund managers, financial advisers and trust companies in Singapore.
He has also acted as lead counsel in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and employment law-related work. His clientele consists of local individuals and organisations as well as multinational and international clients, particularly in the funds industry.
Languages
English
Memberships
- Member, Law Society of Singapore
- Member, Singapore Academy of Law
- Member, Law Society of England & Wales
Education
- LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (2002)
- Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2003)
- Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (2006)
- Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia (2008)
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Investment funds: local firms
(Leading individuals)Drew & Napier LLC has an established and well-developed investment funds practice, particularly in the open-ended funds space. It has extensive regulatory experience including interactions with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Ron Cheng heads the investment funds team, advising on a range of alternative investment funds establishments, including those under the umbrella VCC structure. He has driven further growth in cryptocurrency and private credit funds, among other burgeoning areas. Former partner Petrus Huang has retired.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Singapore > Investment funds: local firms
- Investment funds: local firms Singapore
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
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- Intellectual property: Local firms
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Private wealth and family law – local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms
- White-collar crime - Local firms
Firm Rankings
- Construction: Local firms
- Data protection and cyber security
- International arbitration
- Investment funds: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: equity and debt: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms