Funds & Asset Management
AVANT LAW LLC
About Our Firm
GOOGLE Reviews
5 Stars
Avant Law LLC was founded by partners who were formerly from the Singapore big four law firms and from some of Malaysia’s best law firms. Our corporate lawyers in Singapore are dual-qualified in both Singapore and Malaysia. We specialize in corporate law, financing, capital markets, probate, and funds.
As legal counsels, our mission is to help clients to succeed and to achieve their potential so that they in turn can help others and leave a positive impact on their communities.
Funds, Family Office & VCCs
Our Funds Desk provides legal advice advisory to fund managers and family offices. Working with relevant professionals in the different fields, we assist clients on structuring as well as applicable tax incentives. We also set up VCC structures for licensed fund managers.
Our comprehensive legal services and cost-effective guidance cater to diverse fund clients. Whether you’re establishing a licensed fund management company, managing public markets, overseeing private equity or alternative funds, venturing into venture capital, or exploring the benefits of a variable capital company, we can deliver tailored and pragmatic advice in all legal aspects of fund management and investments. Additionally, we serve licensed multi and single-family offices, as well as private trust companies.
You can expect prompt and efficient responses to your needs. Our team offers expert legal advice and practical solutions throughout the fund lifecycle – from establishment and registration to fundraising, day-to-day operations, and fund exits – ensuring your success in your industry.
Our wide range of legal services includes:
- Advising and assisting with the setting up of licensed fund management companies in Singapore, including guiding the clients to navigate through the regulatory and compliance requirements, advising on the marketing and distribution of funds in Singapore.
- Advising on the structuring, and setting up of variable capital company (VCC) in Singapore and the legal requirements.
- Advising on the legal requirements and assisting with the setting up of licensed multi-family offices in Singapore.
- Advising and assisting with the setting up of single-family offices in Singapore.
- Advising on the setting up of private trusts.
In our team, we have specialists with hands-on experience in investment management operations and with the industry knowledge to supplement our legal advisory services.
What Our Clients Think
Our clients know us as the “Law Firm with Personal Touch”.
As a testament to our commitment to work hard and our ability to accurate and thorough legal advice, we have received the following feedback from clients:
- “Professional with Strong Personal Touch”
- “Responsive, and empathetic. Compared to other past lawyers I have worked with, she really takes time to understand the situation…”
- “10 out of 10. Reliable”
- “Impressed with their Professionalism and Willingness to go the extra mile for their clients”
- “Speed and Thoroughness”
- “Honest, Straightforward with good clarity”
- “… we highly recommend the team at Avant Law LLC for business legal services”
What We Do
The majority of our lawyers have been in legal practice for more than 20 years. We are lawyers with a proven track record and strive to remain the trusted business partner to our clients.
Our Funds Desk provides legal advisory services to fund managers, investors, and investee companies in relation to both open-end funds and closed-end funds that deal with different asset classes and different investment strategies.
Please visit our website at https://www.avantlawllc.com/ for more details on our capabilities.
Our Team Leader
Contact:
Phone: +65 6592 5268
Mobile: +65 8186 6938
E-mail: ysl@avantlawllc.com
Yap Siew Ling
Qualification:
LL.B (Hons), University of Bristol, United Kingdom (1997)
LL.M in International Economics Law, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (1999)
Year of Admission:
Admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 2001
Admitted to the Singapore Bar in 2009
Practice Areas
- Financing, Fund Raising
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Corporate and Commercial
- Funds and VCC
About Siew Ling
Siew Ling is dual-qualified and advises on the laws of Singapore and Malaysia. She specializes in private equity fundraisings, VCCs and IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and banking.
Siew Ling co-founded Avant Law LLC in 2018. She left Drew & Napier as a director after working there for about 9 years. Siew Ling began her practice in Malaysia in 2001 at Skrine and later at Zaid Ibrahim & Co. with an accumulated legal practice of 8 years in Malaysia.
She has advised clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and businesses from various industries, from setting up to eventual listings on different stock exchanges.
She is able to provide personalized solutions to legal problems and to present various legal matters related to commercial legislation in an easy-to-understand manner.
She received honourable mention in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2016 for capital markets.
Some of matters she handles include:
- Advised the proposed single-family office, fund management company and the proposed fund company on the requirement of a capital markets service license.
- Acted for a leading provider of aesthetic medical services in China to set up a Variable Capital Company (‘VCC’) structure for its fund in Singapore. Besides assisting to set up the VCC, we also acted as the legal advisor for all matters in setting up the VCC and all matters leading up to the launch of multiple sub-funds, playing a critical role in advising and highlighting legal issues to the client.
- Advised and assisted fund manager to apply for capital markets service license with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
Please visit the website at https://www.avantlawllc.com for more details.
- Law Firm Address
- 10 Anson Road, #10-02 International Plaza,
- Singapore 079903
- Contact Details
- +65 6926 9668
- ysl@avantlawllc.com
- Cantonese, Hainanese, Hakka/ Khek, Malay, Mandarin
- Website