Hot Topics and Trends in Real Estate Funds

Join us as our panel of experts from KPMG in Singapore, Clifford Chance, Vistra and Capstone Partners provide an update on the latest trends in the real estate fundraising environment, discuss how real estate fund managers are responding to current challenges in the evolving tax and regulatory landscape, and share insights on what opportunities the post-COVID world might bring.

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Partner, Head of Real Estate and Asset Management, Tax
KPMG in Singapore

Wee Hwee has an extensive experience in structuring single country and multiple jurisdictions funds with a Asian focus, both close/open ended, listed/unlisted, and across various asset classes. He is also familiar with fund platforms in Singapore, Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands etc, as well as tax efficient divestment planning opportunities for funds with multiple exit strategies. Wee Hwee has also assisted many Singapore and foreign investors to structure their Singapore real estate investments in a tax efficient manner across various asset classes.

Managing Partner
Clifford Chance Singapore

Kai Schneider is the Managing Partner of the Singapore office and head of the Funds and Investment Management group in Singapore. He is a US qualified lawyer with over 20 years of specialist experience in the funds sector and advises clients on the formation of and investment in a wide variety of private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and credit funds. He also counsels clients on co-investments, secondaries and spin outs. Kai is co-chair of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Funds Industry Group (SingaporeFunds) and a member of the Advocacy Subcommittee of the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SVCA) and the Singapore Executive Committee of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). He is ranked Band 1 in Chambers Global and Legal 500.

Partner
Clifford Chance Singapore

Daryl is a Partner in the Funds and Investment Management Practice in Singapore.
He is a Singapore qualified lawyer with more than 10 years’ experience and advises clients on primary fundraisings, fund secondaries and restructurings, fund investments, co-investments and advisory mandates.

Daryl is recommended by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 in the field of International Investment Funds.

Director, Fund Services
Vistra Singapore

Thurai leads the real assets fund services team at Vistra Singapore servicing fund managers investing in real estate and infrastructure via structures formed in or through Singapore to access Asian and global markets. Thurai has more than 20 years of experience in real estate accounting and investment management. Before joining Vistra, he was fund manager with a global logistics property developer headquartered in the US for over 10 years overseeing private real estate funds in Asia with equity of US$ 3 billion investing into Japan and China.

Director
Capstone Partners

Michele heads the distribution efforts in Southeast Asia at Capstone Partners. She provides institutional investors in the region with access to quality mid-cap private fund managers in real estate, private equity, buyout and infrastructure. Michele has more than 15 years of experience in a capital raising capacity. Prior to Capstone Partners, she was the Director of Investor Relations at UOB Venture Management, a mid-cap GP that invests into private companies in the region. Michele holds a Bachelor degree in Arts (Merit) from the National University of Singapore.