Ron is Co-Head of the Investment Funds practice. He practised corporate and commercial law since 2003. He has handled a wide range of corporate matters.
These include domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investment funds and funds management, private equity, capital markets and employment law-related work.
Ron has dealt with a wide range of corporate transactions. Some of the matters in which Ron has handled include:
- Acting as Singapore counsel for a Dutch pension fund asset manager as lead investor of a tax-exempted private fund investing into offshore real estate developments.
- Acting for a major offshore snack company in its joint venture with an Indian company specialising in the production of cashew nuts, and the parties’ subsequent multi-million dollar investments into the joint venture company.
- Acting for a US conglomerate in a private share acquisition for S$35 million. The transaction involved the transfer of government-leased properties.
- Acting for a Singapore corporation in its sale of the ERA real estate group of companies.
- Acting for receivers appointed to an insolvent Indonesian resort in the sale of the resort’s shares and receivables to a corporate fund investor.
Asia Pacific Legal 500
Investment Funds 2019 – Recommended Lawyer for 3 consecutive years
Capital Markets 2018 – Recommended Lawyer
Ron Cheng stands out for his "experience and knowledge". He is strong in all aspects of funds management and private equity transactions together with regulatory regimes and related tax issues.
Asialaw Leading Lawyers
Ron was commended by a client who said: “Ron is very professional, knowledgeable and efficient. I am very pleased with his work.”
Singapore Business Review
Singapore’s 70 most influential lawyers aged 40 and under in 2016 – Listed lawyer