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Ron Cheng

Co-Head, Investment Funds

Director, Corporate & Finance

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Practice Areas

Qualifications

  • LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (2002)
  • Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2003)
  • Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (2006)
  • Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia (2008)
Overview

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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Acting for a US conglomerate in a private share acquisition for S$35 million. The transaction involved the transfer of government-leased properties.

  4. Acting for a Singapore corporation in its sale of the ERA real estate group of companies.

  5. 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 2020 – Recommended Lawyer for 4 consecutive years
Capital Markets 2018 – Recommended Lawyer

Ron specialises in the structuring and listing of funds, "manages a good team" and "always delivers well thought out practical advice".

A client praised Ron for being “highly accessible and responsive.”

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. 

IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms
“Highly professional, responsive and knowledgeable.” 

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

  • Member, Law Society of Singapore
  • Member, Singapore Academy of Law
  • Member, Law Society of England & Wales
  • Co-author of the Singapore chapters to “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Securitisation” in 2016, 2014, 2012 and 2011, published by the Global Legal Group.
  • Co-author of “Timetable for Implementation of Amendments to the Companies Act”, April 2015, published by Lexology and Drew & Napier LLC.
  • Author of “Impending Provisions in the Singapore Companies Act Relating to Duties of Chief Executive Officers”, February 2015, published by Lexology and Drew & Napier LLC.
  • Co-author of the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network’s guide “Getting Started in Venture Philanthropy in Asia – Legal Framework Profile for Singapore”, published by the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network in 2014.
  • Co-author of an article titled “Duties and Liabilities of Directors of Insolvent Companies” published by Asian Legal Business in June 2003.