NAME: Jerry Koh
LAW FIRM: Allen & Gledhill
COUNTRY: Singapore
PRACTICE AREAS: Capital markets
Jerry Koh of Allen & Gledhill is our July lawyer of the month for his lead role in NTT DC REIT’s planned $773 million IPO on the Singapore Stock Exchange. The offering is set to become the largest for a Singapore REIT in more than a decade.
Koh is a key figure in the local legal industry, currently serving as the managing partner of Allen & Gledhill. He also heads the firm’s investment funds and REITs group.
Koh routinely works with a range of clients on structuring and establishing investment funds, capital markets transactions, regulatory advice, M&As, and complex securitisation and structured finance deals. He is regarded as one of the leading authorities on REITs and business trusts in Singapore, having been involved in listing almost all of these in the jurisdiction.
Koh has been practising as a corporate lawyer since 1993 and joined Allen & Gledhill in 2001 from an international law firm in Hong Kong. He was the former Co-Chair of the Securities Law Committee of the IBA and now sits as a member of the Securities and Capital Markets Committee Advisory Board. Koh is ranked as an Elite Practitioner on asialaw for capital markets and investment funds.