Sarah Teo

Practice Areas

Investment Funds

Career

Sarah’s principal area of practice is in investment funds, specialising in retail collective investment schemes (including exchange traded funds and variable capital companies).

Her experience broadly comprises the establishment and seeking of regulatory approval/registration of collective investment schemes and advising fund management companies on both retail and restricted offers of funds in Singapore, including related marketing/advertising and on-going regulatory or compliance matters.

Sarah has extensive experience in advising fund managers on the listing of investment funds on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited and the on-going listing obligations and compliance issues. She regularly advises trust companies and approved trustees of retail collective investment schemes on fund offering and constitutive documents and related regulatory and compliance issues.

Sarah joined the Firm in 2005 and has been a Partner since 2008.

Publications

Co-authored the Singapore chapter on Public Investment Funds 2019 for the International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) to Public Investment Funds Laws and Regulations (2nd Edition).

Co-authored the chapter on Regulatory Framework: Singapore in the Exchange Traded Funds in Asia (Courses & Seminars, 2010/2011).

Co-authored the Singapore chapter of ICLG Public Investment Funds Comparative Guide 2024 by Global Legal Group.