Tan Zhi Feng

Partner

Zhi Feng is a financial regulatory and derivatives lawyer who is Co-Head of the Firm’s International Trade Practice.

He specialises in financial services laws and regulations, and advises a broad range of financial institutions, including banks, fund managers, broker-dealers, automated trading firms, market operators, payment services firms, cryptocurrency firms and commodity trading firms. He helps clients with:

• licence applications and establishing of new businesses;
• structuring, drafting and review of documentation for new product offerings and services;
• implementation and review of policies;
• obtaining regulatory approvals for transactions;
• dealing with regulatory investigations; and
• providing feedback on proposed regulatory changes.

He has particular expertise in the documentation of derivatives transactions, and advising on netting issues and collateral arrangements relating to derivatives.

As an extension of his practice, he also advises on issues relating to international trade such as sanctions, cross-border payments, foreign exchange controls and free trade agreements.

Zhi Feng is recognised as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 for Fintech and Financial Services Regulatory and as a Recommended Lawyer for Banking – Regulatory by Lexology Index. He is praised for being “excellent in addressing the client’s questions and good at handling complex issues”.  

Zhi Feng graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore. He also spent a year at Stanford Law School, where he was awarded the Gerald Gunther Prize for Outstanding Performance in International Trade Regulation and several distinctions. He joined Allen & Gledhill after being called to the Singapore Bar and has been on secondments with two major banks.

Work Highlights

• Advising GLP on the sale of GCP International to Ares Management.
• Advising issuers, distributors and custodians of tokenised money market funds.
• Advising on the launch of a regulated stablecoin.
• Advising ISDA on netting, collateral and regulatory issues relating to derivatives.