Edward is a Registered Foreign Lawyer at Morgan Lewis Stamford LLC, a Singapore law corporation affiliated with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He is also a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
Edward Bennett counsels on a wide range of corporate and business transactional matters, including private equity, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, secondary buyout, and refinancing. Ed’s experience includes advising on the formation of private equity buyout, infrastructure and debt funds, secondary transfers of fund interests, as well as subsequent closings and the structuring of a number of carried interest schemes. He works with fund managers and institutional investors across the globe on the structuring, establishment, and commitments to these funds. He is a Registered Foreign Lawyer in Singapore and is admitted in England & Wales.
Extended Profile
Ed has worked across Asia since 2011 after relocating from London. Since then, he has focused his work on Southeast Asian cross-border corporate transactions and fund formations involving investment teams in the wider Asia-Pacific region, including involvement with offshore private equity investment in Indonesia.
Education
University of Cambridge, Downing College, 1998, LLB
College of Law of England and Wales, York, LPC, Commendation
Admissions
England & Wales (Solicitor)
Registered Foreign Lawyer – Singapore
Awards and Affiliations
Recommended, Investment Funds: Local Firms, Singapore, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2020, 2021)
Recommended, Corporate and M&A: Local Firms, Singapore, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2019)
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Asset Management, Law360 (2017)
