Zixiang has extensive experience in private onshore and offshore closed-end and open-ended fund formation, including private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds, hedge funds, hybrid funds and cryptocurrency funds.
Zixiang regularly leads the formation of private closed ended funds and open ended funds, having led the formation and launch of the flagship funds of a number of notable private fund houses and spin-outs. He also regularly leads the structuring, formation and launch of numerous venture capital funds for both prominent institutional and start-up venture capital fund managers.
Zixiang is experienced in the formation of funds investing into virtual assets, having been involved in a number of the earliest cryptocurrency funds in Asia.
He also regularly advises corporate and institutional clients (including sovereign wealth funds) and tertiary institutions on their investments into private funds.
In addition to specialising in private fund formation, Zixiang leads an active regulatory practice where he regularly advises asset managers on the formation of fund management businesses pursuing various business models, including advising on registration and licensing matters, the drafting of regulatory submissions in connection with corporate transactions involving asset management groups , as well as providing ongoing advice on regulatory, compliance and securities offering matters.
Zixiang has been named as a Rising Star for Investment Funds at the IFLR APAC Awards 2021, and ranked as a Rising Star by asialaw in 2024. He is also recognised as a “Rising Star” for Investment Funds in Singapore in the Euromoney’s Expert Guides from 2017 to 2022. Clients have mentioned that he is “[e]xtremely knowledgeable and sensitive to our needs. He positions himself as a fair and reasonable counsel. He is highly responsive and available for discussion”.
EXPERIENCE
- Acted as lead counsel for the establishment of various funds, including an impact fund, for the investment management arm of an Indonesian banking group.
- Acted as lead counsel in the establishment of a Central Asia focused fund for a prominent Singapore venture capital fund manager.
- Acted as lead counsel in the establishment of a telecommunications tech venture capital fund for the investment management arm of an Indonesian telecommunications group.
- Acted as lead counsel in the establishment of a Korea hospitality real estate fund for a prominent Singapore real estate fund manager.
- Acted as Singapore counsel in the establishment of an agritech fund for a prominent Indian venture capital fund manager.
- Acted as Singapore counsel in the establishment of a venture debt fund for a prominent Singapore venture capital fund manager.
- Acted as lead counsel in the establishment of one of the earliest cryptocurrency hedge funds in Asia.
- Assisted the venture capital arm of a Japanese multinational conglomerate in obtaining a venture capital fund manager licence, and assisted with the establishment of their various venture capital funds.
- Advised various institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds on their investments into private funds.
