Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Corporate; Trust, Asset & Wealth Management

Alicea Tan specialises in investment funds. She advises both well-established and first-time managers on the structuring, formation, marketing and operation of open-ended and close-ended structures utilising vehicles such as the Singapore Variable Capital Companies (VCC) and limited partnerships as well as offshore vehicles, covering traditional assets and alternatives (hedge, private equity, venture capital, private credit, real estate, digital assets and other asset classes and strategies). Her experience includes re-domiciliations and restructuring of existing fund structures, portfolios and investors. Alicea advised two (2) of the 18 fund managers selected for the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s VCC pilot programme and completed the launch and redomiciliation of the respective funds on the same day the VCC regime went live in Singapore.

In addition, Alicea advises sovereign wealth and other institutional investors on a range of LP matters concerning their anchor investments.

She also regularly advises asset and fund managers on the establishment of business operations in Singapore, related regulatory matters including licence/exemption applications and has counselled managers and their principals on a wide range of compliance and governance issues, liaising regularly with Singapore regulators.

In Alicea’s private client practice, she advises private and HNW/UHNW clients on legacy succession matters and structuring and formation of family offices, private trusts and Section 13O/13U structures.

Alicea is also involved in a variety of general corporate matters which includes downstream private equity and venture capital investments, financings and joint ventures.

English, Mandarin

Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore, 2015 LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 2014