2024-2025 Global AI Trends Guide
Thomas Kim
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, Mandarin
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Investment Funds: International - Singapore, Chambers Asia-Pacific 2025Thomas consistently demonstrates a keen attention to detail, ensuring that every aspect of our legal needs is thoroughly addressed. His approachability and meticulousness makes him a valuable asset."
Thomas Kim focuses his practice on advising private equity, venture capital, private credit and other alternative fund managers on the structuring, establishment and marketing of investment funds. He has significant experience advising sovereign wealth funds, multilateral development banks and other institutional investors on their private fund investments. Thomas also regularly counsels clients on secondary transactions, mergers and acquisitions of fund management businesses, co-investments and carried interest structuring. He is experienced in the raising of closed-ended funds focusing on impact and sustainable investments, and regularly advises asset managers on compliance with European ESG-related regulatory matters.
Thomas has been ranked as one of the leading funds lawyers in the 2025 edition of Chambers Asia Pacific for his work in "Singapore: Investment Funds: International”. Clients note that he is "very knowledgeable in his field and has a strong ability to understand complex transaction structures and commercial aspects of a deal" and that he is "always very responsive" and "picks up on things very quickly". Thomas was also recognized as a Next Generation Partner in the 2024 edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for his work in “Singapore: Investment Funds: Foreign Firms”.
The recent editions note that he "stood out in terms of responsiveness and quality of advice" and is "excellent in understanding [clients"] needs and sharing [his] in depth experience and current market practice". Clients see him as "a skilled funds practitioner" who "provides sharp analysis" and "pays attention to details", commend him for his "cool demeanour" and "exceptional professionalism and tenacity". He is valued by his clients for his "proactive and driven" approach, and for his "genuine interest in obtaining the best result for his client".
Speaking Engagement:
Forward Momentum: Emerging trends for Asian managed funds on fund raising and exits, co-organized with EY. (April 2024)
Investment Funds: International - Singapore, Chambers Asia-Pacific 2025Thomas Kim is great to work with; he builds a great rapport with his clients. He is very responsive and prompt and he always manages to find commercial and ideal solutions for us."
Representative experience
Tikehau Capital on its joint Asia Pacific private credit fund launch with UOB Kay Hian.*
Bank of Singapore in connection with the sale of its platform fund management business to Institutional CapitalNetwork, Inc.*
Dymon Asia Private Equity (Singapore) on its third flagship private equity fund, Dymon Asia Private Equity (S.E. Asia) Fund III, L.P.*
Capital Square Partners (CSP) on the close of a c.US$700 million continuation fund.*
Capital Square Partners (CSP) on the acquisition of portfolio assets from certain funds managed by both CSP and Basil Technology Partners.*
Clime Capital with respect to its second fund, South East Asia Clean Energy Fund II (SEACEF II), which received US$127 million in commitments.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- LL.M., Harvard Law School, 2005
- B.A., University of Cambridge, 2004
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Solicitor, England and Wales
- New York