Danny Tan is a Partner in Financial Services. His areas of practice encompass investment funds, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions. He specialises in fund formation, restructuring and fund regulatory matters, be it private equity funds, hedge funds, fund of funds or venture capital funds. Danny has extensive experience dealing with different types of onshore or offshore fund vehicles (including corporate entities, limited partnerships and unit trusts) whether structured as master-feeders, stand-alones or fund of funds. Danny also deals with a wide range of fund regulatory matters and regularly advises local and foreign financial institutions, fund managers and investment funds.

Danny has been involved, in various roles, in transactions like:

Danny graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1999. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 2000 and has been admitted to the Roll of Solicitors, England and Wales, as a non-practising member since 2003. Prior to joining Allen and Gledhill, Danny was with another leading Singapore law firm for seven years and did a stint in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London.

Danny has been cited in IFLR’s Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Investment Funds Lawyers and named as a key individual in Chambers Global for his investment funds work. He has co-written articles for international publications like the International Financial Law Review, including the Singapore Chapter of the International Guide to Hedge Fund Regulation (Bloomsbury Professional, 2009). Danny was a tutor in the Legal Case Studies programme of the NUS Law School for a couple of years.

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