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Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance

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Evolving venture capital landscape in Singapore

17 February 2017

On 10 November 2016, the Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Tharman Shanmugaratnam, announced in his speech (at the launch of LATTICE80) that the MAS is working with the venture capital (VC) industry to grow the funding landscape for start-ups in Singapore and the region. The MAS proposed to achieve this through simplifying the regulatory regime for managers of VC funds (VC managers) and studying whether the existing tax incentives for funds and fund managers are sufficient to anchor VC funds and VC managers in Singapore.

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