Sarah Teo

Sarah Teo is a Partner in the Investment Funds Practice at Allen & Gledhill LLP, specialising in capital markets law with a focus on investment funds, particularly retail collective investment schemes (including exchange traded funds and variable capital companies). She has extensive experience in the establishment and seeking of regulatory approval or registration of collective investment schemes, advising fund management companies on both retail and restricted offers of funds in Singapore, including marketing, advertising, and ongoing regulatory or compliance matters.

She regularly advises fund managers on the listing of investment funds on the Singapore Exchange and on ongoing listing obligations and compliance issues, and advises trust companies and approved trustees of retail collective investment schemes on fund offering and constitutive documents and related regulatory and compliance issues. She is recommended for her expertise in investment funds by Chambers Asia-Pacific and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, where she is described as a “responsive and hands-on partner who provides advice that is commercially viable” and for providing “commercially sound advice” on retail collective investment schemes and exchange-traded funds. She has co-authored the Singapore chapter on Public Investment Funds for the International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) and the chapter on Regulatory Framework in the Exchange Traded Funds in Asia publication.

Sarah holds an LL.B. (Hons) from University College London. She was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 2002 and to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales in 2004. She joined the firm in 2005 and has been a Partner since 2008.