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Venture Capital

CMS assists on a variety of deals in Asia’s venture capital ecosystem and is amongst the most active firms in advising on the establishment of, and investments into, Private Equity and Venture Capital funds. There is huge breadth to the practice, from advising on fund investments totalling over US$12bn (since 2016) to working with established, first time and spin-out fund managers on the launch of new funds. We advise on funds established across all major jurisdictions, including Singapore where our recent focus has been advising on the launch of funds established as variable capital companies (VCCs). We provide Singapore funds regulatory advice, including advising on the establishment of fund management businesses and on VCFM, RFMC and LFMC licence applications.

Our team acts for venture capital and angel investors, early-stage companies and business founders on multiple rounds of financing. Our lawyers draw on a wealth of experience of transactions across a variety of sectors, with a primary focus on technology, financial services, media and telecoms but including retail, utilities, mining and natural resources and energy. Our team understands market norms and positions, the importance of commercial flexibility to our clients, and also importantly, the pitfalls that lead to legal disputes.

We are ranked as a Leading Firm in Singapore by Legal 500 for Investment Funds, Corporate M&A and TMT and by Chambers for Investment Funds, TMT and Startups and Emerging Companies.

We advise on:

  • Fund structuring
  • Fundraising
  • Management buy-outs and buy-ins
  • Business restructuring
  • Startup expertise
  • Fund regulatory
  • Shariah compliant funds

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01/06/2021
Some leaks can­'t be fixed
“Con­fid­en­tial in­form­a­tion is like an ice cube... give it to the party who has no re­fri­ger­at­or or will not agree to keep it in one, and by the time of the tri­al you have just a pool of wa­ter.” This...
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02/10/2020
BRI - View from APAC
The Asia-Pa­cific re­gion (APAC) has seen ex­tens­ive Belt and Road (BRI) in­vest­ment already, and prom­ises much more.But our sur­vey of BRI par­ti­cipants in APAC re­veals un­ex­pec­ted levels of am­bi­val­ence about some as­pects of BRI pro­jects.Can these po­ten­tial dif­fi­culties be tackled in a way that will ad­dress con­cerns about is­sues such as trans­par­ency and sus­tain­ab­il­ity, and en­cour­age the great­er in­volve­ment of in­ter­na­tion­al busi­nesses that China hopes to see? And how are the un­pre­ced­en­ted prob­lems of 2020, in­clud­ing the glob­al pan­dem­ic and trade dis­putes, af­fect­ing the pro­spects of BRI?Our APAC re­port looks at is­sues in­clud­ing:Dif­fi­culties in BRI pro­jects ex­per­i­enced by APAC par­ti­cipants, and the po­ten­tial for resolv­ing these.The ef­fects of Cov­id-19 on BRI.Mit­ig­at­ing BRI risk and man­aging dis­putes.Po­ten­tial trends in the fin­an­cing of BRI pro­jects.The sec­tors at­tract­ing the most in­terest among BRI par­ti­cipants.The im­pact of BRI 2.0.
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01/09/2017
CMS form­al­ises law al­li­ance with Hol­born Law in Singa­pore
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS is pleased to an­nounce a form­al law al­li­ance (FLA) between its Singa­pore of­fice and Singa­pore law prac­tice Hol­born Law LLC. The FLA, which has re­ceived ap­prov­al from the Leg­al...
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