Mr Kenneth Oh > Dentons Rodyk > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Kenneth Oh
Work Department
Corporate, Private Equity, FinTech/Blockchain
Position
Kenneth Oh is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice group and is Co-Head of the Fintech/Blockchain practice.
Having been in legal practice for more than 20 years, Kenneth practice focus is on Blockchain & DLT, Corporate Finance – in particular early/ late stage private equity as well as public equity capital markets transactions such as IPOs and RTOs on the Singapore Exchange – and M&A. Kenneth also advises on capital markets services licensing and compliance, and on a wide range of general corporate advisory work including joint ventures, corporate restructurings and debt restructuring.
Leveraging on his cross-disciplinary practice experience, Kenneth has extensive experience advising Blockchain & DLT initiatives including security/non-security token offerings; DeFi, cryptocurrency; establishment and licensing of digital asset exchanges, OTC and other digital asset service providers; establishment and licensing of digital asset funds; and equity investments and M&A involving Blockchain & DLT initiatives.
Kenneth is ranked Band 1 for Fintech Legal for Singapore by legal directory Chambers & Partners for 2019 and 2020 and is also recognised in legal directories Legal 500 for both Capital Markets and M&A and in IFLR1000 for Capital Markets: Equity and M&A as well as Financial & Corporate Law.
Apart from representing Dentons on the Governing Council of Hedera Hashgraph, Kenneth in his personal capacity is/was non-executive advisor to numerous blockchain projects such as AELF, Acala Network, Kyber Network and Ocean Protocol. Kenneth also holds independent directorship with various companies listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange and chairs their governance committees.
Career
Senior Partner – Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP (formerly Rodyk & Davidson LLP) (2010 – present)
Shook Lin & Bok LLP (1999 – 2010)
Ramdas & Wong (1999 – 1999)
Languages
English, Mandarin
Memberships
Member, The Law Society of Singapore
Member, Singapore Academy of Law
Education
LLB (Hons) National University of Singapore, 1998
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
Dentons Rodyk is described as being ‘very strong in the blockchain space’, with the team possessing expertise in areas such as capital raisings, privacy and data protection, regulatory compliance and tax. Kenneth Oh and Li Chuan Hsu co-lead the practice with the latter winning plaudits for his work alongside senior partner Jacqueline Loke in Ripple’s successful application for a major payment institution licence. S Sivanesan is highly skilled at handling cross-border and regional transactional work.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Start-up and venture capital – Foreign firms
- Start-up and venture capital – Local firms
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Construction: Local firms
- Data protection and cyber security
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
- Insurance: local firms
- Intellectual property: Local firms
- Investment funds: local firms
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Private wealth and family law – local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: local firms
- Shipping: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms
- Capital markets: equity and debt: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- International arbitration
- Projects: foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A: foreign firms