Description

Alternative investments have dramatically changed in the “Tech Era”.  The rise of technological innovation has added new dimensions and new risks to alternative investment markets. This seminar will discuss the new business models, new issues that have arisen in the evolving alternative investments sector, and corresponding responses from regulators and practitioners. The seminar will compare different types of alternative investments, examine their associated risks, and propose solutions to mitigate those risks. Specific topics include the practice and regulation of equity crowdfunding, the emerging models and the current regulatory and contractual solutions in the venture capital crypto landscape, the regulatory sandbox, and Singapore’s experience in regulating and facilitating the growth of the FinTech sector.

About the Speaker

Dr. Lin Lin is an Assistant Professor at NUS Law. She specializes in corporate law, corporate finance, FinTech, and Chinese corporate and securities law. Lin has published in leading journals in her field, including Journal of Corporate Law Studies, European Business Organization Law Review, Journal of Business Law, Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance and Berkeley Business Law Journal. She authored a monograph titled Venture Capital Law in China (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Lin Lin has held visiting appointments at Stanford University, University of Oxford and University of Melbourne. She has provided executive training on corporate law and FinTech for officials and practitioners from China, India and Singapore. Lin has delivered public lectures at leading law schools including University of Oxford, Stanford University, Tsinghua University and Peking University.

Prior to joining academia, Lin was a Legal Policy Officer at the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA). She has worked in the Corporate Finance Department of a leading law firm in Singapore.  She has served as the Special Counsel to the
Steering Committee of the Taiwanese Company Law Reform. She currently sits on the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law. She has also served as a guest editor for the European Business Organization Law Review and Singapore Journal of Legal Studies.