2025 Singapore Practical Workshop

George Cyriac

Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

George Cyriac has more than two decades of experience advising on complex cross-border corporate, private equity, and restructuring transactions across Asia (including Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, the Philippines, and Thailand) and in New York. He represents leading multinational and Asian companies, private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, state-owned enterprises, and banks in transactions throughout the investment cycle, including investments, disposals, complex restructurings, and joint ventures. Highly regarded as a private equity lawyer, George acts for leading global and Asian private equity sponsors in acquisitions, divestments, restructurings, and fundraisings in Asia and New York. He leads the firm’s private equity practice in Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, George worked in the Singapore and New York offices of other global law firms and in the India office of an affiliate of a US law firm.

Thomas Deinet

Executive Director, SBAI

Thomas Deinet was appointed Executive Director of the SBAI (previously known as the HFSB) in 2008. In 2007, Thomas joined the working group to project manage the development of practice standards proposed by 14 leading international alternative investment managers that led to the establishment of the SBAI.

Prior to joining the SBAI, he was a senior manager at Oliver Wyman, where he extensively worked with major financial institutions in Europe covering asset management as well as corporate and investment banking. Thomas also worked as an analyst in energy trading for a major commodities trading firm.

Thomas is a graduate of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, with a major in industrial engineering and holds an MSc from Purdue University, USA. Thomas is a CFA charterholder.

George Cyriac

Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

George Cyriac has more than two decades of experience advising on complex cross-border corporate, private equity, and restructuring transactions across Asia (including Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, the Philippines, and Thailand) and in New York. He represents leading multinational and Asian companies, private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, state-owned enterprises, and banks in transactions throughout the investment cycle, including investments, disposals, complex restructurings, and joint ventures. Highly regarded as a private equity lawyer, George acts for leading global and Asian private equity sponsors in acquisitions, divestments, restructurings, and fundraisings in Asia and New York. He leads the firm’s private equity practice in Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, George worked in the Singapore and New York offices of other global law firms and in the India office of an affiliate of a US law firm.

Akhil Jain

Director, Private Equity, Fullerton Fund Management

Akhil is a Director in the Private Equity (directs) team at Fullerton Fund Management, which is a Singapore-based investment management firm that specializes in providing a wide range of investment solutions to institutional and retail clients.

Prior to Fullerton, he was an Executive Director and responsible for environment and sustainability sector coverage at Olympus Capital Holdings Asia which is one of Asia's longest standing private equity funds. He has also previously worked with Navis Capital, an Asia focused private equity buyout fund, as an Investment Manager, managing control investments across India, Southeast Asia and Australia; and with Argonaut Private Equity, a US based fund, as an Investment Associate, managing private and listed investments in India across multiple sectors.

He is a Computer Engineer from Delhi University, MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and a CFA Charterholder.

Tuck Meng Yee

Partner, JRT Partners

Tuck Meng Yee has over 20 years’ experience in the financial markets in Asia and Australia in derivatives, and in funds portfolio management, development, research and marketing with global investment banks (JPMorgan, UBS) and private banks (ABN Amro and Citibank) as well as funds services (Moore Management) and family office (JRT Partners) giving him a keen sense of what investments suit which types of investors, and the support they typically need.

Most recently he was Investment Solutions Head for Allfunds in Asia (a leading funds platform) before returning to the family office JRT Partners, which he set up for a Malaysian family and currently leads for both operations and investments.

Tuck speaks English and Mandarin, and holds degrees in Accounting, Computer Science, and Finance (Masters) from the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales.

Thomas Deinet

Executive Director, SBAI

Thomas Deinet was appointed Executive Director of the SBAI (previously known as the HFSB) in 2008. In 2007, Thomas joined the working group to project manage the development of practice standards proposed by 14 leading international alternative investment managers that led to the establishment of the SBAI.

Prior to joining the SBAI, he was a senior manager at Oliver Wyman, where he extensively worked with major financial institutions in Europe covering asset management as well as corporate and investment banking. Thomas also worked as an analyst in energy trading for a major commodities trading firm.

Thomas is a graduate of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, with a major in industrial engineering and holds an MSc from Purdue University, USA. Thomas is a CFA charterholder.

Christine Ayako Schleppegrell

Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Christine Ayako Schleppegrell counsels asset managers on legal, regulatory, and compliance matters, focusing on advisers to private funds (private equity, hedge, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate, credit) and separately managed accounts. She spent several years in private practice and more recently at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including in leadership roles in the Division of Investment Management. While at the SEC, Christine led the Private Funds Branch during a time of landmark rulemaking impacting private fund advisers, she draws on this experience to advise on current and pending regulations and to guide clients through enforcement and examination proceedings.

Christine’s practice focuses on the interpretation and application of federal securities laws, primarily the Advisers Act, Investment Company Act, Exchange Act, and Securities Act. She serves as a resource for SEC-registered advisers, exempt reporting advisers, and unregistered advisers, ranging from global asset managers with diverse product offerings to startup advisers launching their first funds. Christine provides strategic advice on fund and adviser structuring and deal-related regulatory issues that arise in connection with corporate purchases and mergers and acquisitions. She also specialises in counseling on marketing rule compliance and performance advertising as well as extraterritorial matters, including participating affiliate arrangements.

William Nash

Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Bill Nash, managing partner of the firm’s Abu Dhabi office, co-leader of the firm’s Middle East practice, and member of the firm’s international leadership team, has been resident in Abu Dhabi since 2008 and previously lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Bill advises regional and global clients on a variety of corporate and business law matters, focusing on the formation of and investments in private investment funds, international transactions and joint ventures, and general corporate counseling. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.