Olivia Chung
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Hedge Funds
- Credit Funds
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Seeding Transactions
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Energy & Natural Resources Funds
- Investment Management
- Sovereign & Government Investors
- Fund Formation
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Institutional Investors
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Equity
- Focuses on private investment fund matters.
- Represents prominent alternative investment managers and institutional investors.
Olivia is the partner in charge of the firm’s Singapore office. She assists private fund sponsors on matters involving the formation, structuring and ongoing operation of U.S. and offshore private equity funds and hedge funds, as well as managed accounts and customized investment solutions. She represents some of the world’s most prominent private equity, hedge fund and fund of funds sponsors.
Olivia also represents institutional investors acquiring and selling investments in private funds and establishing co-investment arrangements.
Olivia has extensive experience in drafting a wide range of bespoke fund fee structures and can advise on the costs and benefits of the available options, giving managers the ability to attract and retain investors. She also ensures that her clients are fully compliant with evolving regulatory schemes.
Olivia assists alternative investment fund sponsors and investors with:
- Fund formation
- Regulatory compliance for investment advisers
- Complex fund restructurings
- Co-investment arrangements
- Managed accounts
- LP-side fund reviews and negotiations
- Strategic investments
- Seed investments.
- Represented sovereign wealth investor in side-by-side investment in commingled closed-end fund and customized fund of one.
- Advised Singapore-based asset manager on establishment of private credit fund.
- Advised consumer industry focused private equity fund manager on establishment of closed-end fund.
- Represented U.S. institutional investor in investment into fund together with revenue sharing JV with fund manager.
- Established series of sidecar vehicles for activist hedge fund manager’s co-investments.
EducationJ.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2008
B.A., Duke University, 2004
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2008
B.A., Duke University, 2004
Bar AdmissionsNew York
Registered Foreign Lawyer, Singapore
New York
Registered Foreign Lawyer, Singapore
- Chambers Asia-Pacific, Investment Funds: International: Singapore, 2023.
- The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Investment Funds, 2021-2022.
- “Acorns of APAC – Emerging Manager Outreach 2022 Organised by AIMA – On the ‘Start-up Legal Toolbox: Today’s Tools for Tomorrow’s Success’ panel”, March 2022.
- “U.S. Securities Law Filings for Investment Managers in Asia”, Akin Webinar, January 2021.
- “Hong Kong’s Open-Ended Fund Company (OFC) v Singapore’s Variable Capital Company (VCC) Regimes,” Akin’s Virtual Hong Kong Investment Funds Conference 2020, October 2020.
- “Is Singapore the Elixir? Is Singapore the appropriate alternative?” AIMA Singapore Annual Forum, September 2020.
- “U.S. Marketing Compliance,” AIMA APAC Fund Manager Briefing Webinar, April 2020.