Anne Yeo is the Head and Partner in the Funds & Investment Management Practice Group at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP. She has more than twenty-five years of practice experience in investment funds work.
Anne is ranked in Chambers Asia-Pacific (since 2013) and is also recognised in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (since 2018 & Hall of Fame 2025); Lexology Index: Private Funds 2025 Formation & Regulatory as a Global Elite Thought Leader; The Best Lawyers (since 2014) in the field of Private Funds, Best Lawyers Global Business 2021; Who’s Who Legal: Private Funds (Formation) (since 2015) and Regulatory (2023 & 2024); Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia (since 2021); Asialaw Profiles (since 2023); Client Choice International Guide (Leading Lawyer); Distinguished Practitioner: Asialaw Rankings (since 2023); IFLR1000 Leading Lawyers (since 2022) and Singapore’s Top 100 Lawyers by Asia Business Law Journal (2023 & 2024).
Legal publications note that Anne has a “leading reputation in the investment funds space with a broad practice”, and is a “respected figure and wins recommendations from peers across Europe and Asia”, who “has built a reputation as an excellent investment funds lawyer, with strength on Singapore regulatory work in particular”.
Clients highlight Anne as a “very competent, dedicated and sharp funds lawyer..[who] always put the clients as top priority in all [of the client’s] dealings with her” and that “her client service, level of sophistication and commercial vision are very strong… and is highly dependable and responsive; with good relationship with her clients and is very much trusted by her clients.”
Anne has also been described by legal publications as “a very knowledgeable lawyer” who has “an in-depth understanding of commercial and practical requirements of a business”, who provides “high quality service that extends beyond the monetary value” and is praised for the “accuracy of her information” as well as her “in-depth understanding of Singapore’s regulatory requirements” in the funds space.
She regularly acts in the formation and restructuring of a wide range of onshore and offshore investment funds covering a broad range of strategies and asset classes including hedge funds, fund of funds, fund-of-ones, hybrid funds, private equity funds, private credit funds and other pooled private investment vehicles in the alternative space; as well as in fund transactional and advisory matters for private and institutional investors.
Her experience includes advising investment managers on the structuring and negotiation of seed and strategic investments as well as mergers and acquisitions involving fund management groups and Singapore real estate investment trusts.
Anne is a specialist in the counsel of complex regulatory submissions and regularly acts in the licensing and registration of fund management companies and financial intermediaries covering a broad range of business models. She regularly advises on ongoing business conduct matters, formation issues, marketing and securities offering arrangements.
The Funds & Investment Management Practice that she leads is ranked as a Band 1 practice for Investment Funds – Domestic by Chambers Asia-Pacific (since 2021), Tier 1 for Investment Funds: Local Firms by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (since 2019) and Outstanding by Asialaw (since 2022).
Anne is fluent in English, Chinese and the Malay language and is a recipient of the ASEAN Scholarship for her pre-university studies at National Junior College in Singapore, who later read law at the National University of Singapore.
EXPERIENCE
Anne regularly acts in:
- conceptualising, structuring and formation of Singapore-domiciled investment funds and offshore investment funds (including fund-of-one structures and club deals) pursuing a diverse range of investment strategies investing into a diverse range of asset classes
- the structuring, drafting and negotiation of managed account agreements
- the counsel and drafting of complex regulatory submissions to regulators on behalf of fund managers and financial intermediaries
- fund transactional and advisory matters for private and institutional investors
- advice on all aspects of licensing and the drafting of licence applications/submissions for fund management business and financial intermediaries
MEMBERSHIPS / DIRECTORSHIPS
- Member, Executive Committee of the Singapore Chapter of Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)
- Member, Singapore Regulatory Committee of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)
