Woon Hum Tan

Practice Areas

Tan Woon Hum is widely regarded as one of the rare market leaders specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts. He heads a team of specialist lawyers in the Trust, Asset & Wealth Management practice.

Investment Funds

Ranked as a Band 1 leading investment funds lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific since 2014, he advises on fund formation, (including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, single investor funds and single family funds) using Singapore funds (including VCC) and offshore funds structures (eg. Cayman LP funds and segregated portfolio companies). He drafts and reviews the full range of fund documents including private placement memorandum. He is extremely well versed with independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single family offices, and has an extremely strong track record in securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions (including CMS licence and RFMC). His excellent and long term professional relationship with the local regulators, authorities and major industry players add credence to his practice. He also advises on the recognition of foreign funds, collective investment schemes and UCITs.

Trust and Private Wealth

He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, single family offices, single family funds, Section 13X and Section 13R structures and drafts and reviews trust documents, fund documents, global investor programme documents and family charters.

Corporate Real Estate & REITs

He advises on structures for complex real estate investments, joint ventures and tender projects. His clients include sovereign wealth funds, corporates and property funds.

He has extensive experience in advising on the establishment and initial public offering (IPO) of REITs. He has an in-depth knowledge of the REITs regulations and industry and has been involved in numerous S-REIT IPOs, post-IPO acquisitions, equity fund raising exercises, debt financing and securitisation locally and regionally since the S-REIT infancy stage. He has also advised on mergers and acquisitions of REITs.

Career

LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore (1995); Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore (1996); MBA (Finance), University of Leicester (2000).