プロフィール
Jek Aun Long has focused on investment funds and regulatory work since 1998, and leads a team of dedicated funds lawyers, based in Singapore, known for their versatility, creativity, responsiveness and commercial acumen.
He currently serves as a member of the executive committee of the Monetary Authority of Singapore-Singapore Funds Industry Group (SFIG ExCo), which works to strengthen Singapore’s position as a global asset management and fund domiciliation hub.
Jek Aun works on private and public/retail funds as well as listed funds, including private equity/venture capital, real estate/infrastructure, digital assets, private credit, hedge funds, mutual funds and ETFs. He advises on structuring, establishment, registration and marketing of onshore and offshore funds whether involving closed-end or open-ended investment vehicles.
He also provides guidance on licensing, regulatory and securities laws issues, and counsels corporate and institutional clients, university endowments, tertiary institutions and sovereign wealth funds in connection with their investments in funds. Over the course of his career in private practice, Jek Aun has assisted many of the most prominent names in the global fund management industry establish their regulated operations in Singapore.
As part of the depth and breadth of his and his team’s funds and regulatory experience, Jek Aun has launched private and public/retail tokenized funds and worked with global asset managers tokenizing the Singapore VCC as part of Project Guardian, the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s collaborative initiative with the financial industry testing asset tokenization and DeFi applications.
Seeking optimal and practical solutions for clients’ complex fund structuring and regulatory matters is central to the ethos of Jek Aun and his team of dedicated funds lawyers.
Concentrations
- Fund formation/structuring and fund registrations/authorizations
- Listings of ETFs and other collective investment schemes
- Establishment of fund management operations
- Representation of investors/LPs
- Cross-border legal/regulatory guidance for the distribution of collective investment schemes
- General corporate matters
取扱分野
実績紹介
- Acted as lead counsel in the launch of a Cayman Islands venture capital fund, dedicated to investing in Web3 start-ups, sponsored by a digital assets exchange with AUM of USD 500 million.°
- Acted as lead counsel to a spin out from a state-owned strategic fund in the launch of their growth fund and health care funds structured as variable capital companies, with AUM of USD 250 million.°
- Acting as lead counsel to a spin-out from a sovereign wealth fund in the launch of a Cayman Islands fund making venture capital investments in Web3 and blockchain technologies, and in advising on their co-GP arrangements.°
- Acted as lead counsel in the launch of a fund structured as a variable capital company managed by an Indonesian banking group, making venture capital and impact investments.°
- Acted as lead counsel in the launch of a fund structured as parallel variable capital companies making venture capital investments in Korea and Southeast Asia.°
- Acted as lead counsel for a major Swiss banking group in respect of a private variable capital company tokenized fund project, as part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Project Guardian initiative.°
- Acted as lead counsel for a major U.S.-headquartered asset management group in respect of a retail public variable capital company tokenized fund project, as part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Project Guardian initiative; and advising on its listing on a digital exchange.°
- Acted as lead counsel for multiple global asset managers (including two of whom have AUM of more than USD 1 trillion each) in respect of the launch of variable capital companies structured as investment platforms.°
- Acted for an Indonesian banking group on the structuring, negotiation and implementation of a co-GP arrangement.°
- Acted as lead counsel for a Korean hedge fund in the launch of their flagship Cayman Islands hedge fund managed by their Singapore-based manager.°
- Acted as lead counsel for a Japan focused hedge fund with AUM in excess of USD 1 billion, in the establishment of their flagship fund and separately managed account arrangements with key and strategic investors.°
- Acted as lead counsel for a major Swiss financial institution in the launch of their open-ended fund of real estate funds structured with a Cayman Islands unit trust.°
- Acted as lead counsel in the formation of a fund investing in logistics properties in China, with commitments of USD 588 million. °
- Acted as lead counsel in the formation of a fund investing in Australian office assets seeded by a major Malaysian investment bank with target commitments of USD 280 million.°
- Acted as lead counsel in the formation of a fund investing in water related infrastructure assets with target commitments of USD 100 million.°
- Acted as lead counsel for a major Chinese asset manager in the establishment, authorization and listing of an ETF (structured as a variable capital company) on the SGX under the product link between the SGX and the Shanghai Stock Exchange.°
- Acted as lead counsel for a major US-based asset manager in the establishment, authorization and listing of a climate-focused ETF (structured as a unit trust) on the SGX.°
- Acted as lead counsel for a Singapore banking group in the establishment and authorization of a retail fund structured as variable capital company investing in debt and money market instruments.°
- Acted as lead counsel for a major Swiss banking group in the establishment and authorization of a retail fund structured as a variable capital company investing in Indian companies.°
- Acted as lead counsel for a Singapore asset manager in the termination and delisting of ETFs (structured as unit trusts) from the SGX.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Long prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig Singapore LLP.
受賞歴・所属団体
- Listed, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Singapore
- Investment Funds: Domestic, 2025 (16 years ranked since 2010)
- Investment Funds: International, 2025 (16 years ranked since 2010)
- Listed, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, “Singapore - Investment funds: foreign firms – Leading partners”, 2025
- Executive Committee Member, MAS-Singapore Funds Industry Group (SFIG ExCo), 2024-Present
学歴・資格・言語
- Singapore Academy of Law-INSEAD Law Firm Leadership Programme, INSEAD, Asia Campus
- Postgraduate Diploma in Singapore Law, National University of Singapore
- LL.B. (Hons), University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- England and Wales
- Singapore