People Moves
Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? – Franklin Templeton, Dechert
The latest senior moves, appointments and personnel changes in the Asia-Pacific wealth management sector.
Franklin Templeton
Franklin
Templeton has appointed Jiun Wen Chee as private markets head
for the APAC Wealth business, based in Singapore.
He reports functionally to Jeff Masom, head of US distribution and the firm’s Global Wealth Management Private Markets, and regionally to Christian Bucaro, head of Wealth, Asia.
Chee has more than two decades’ experience across alternatives, private wealth and institutional advisory. Most recently, he served as a managing director at Bank of Singapore, where he led the bank’s alternative investments platform. Prior to this, he held senior positions at Julius Baer, Partners Group, and Cambridge Associates, advising sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations and private clients across Asia.
The US-headquartered group said that Chee’s appointment comes as demand for private markets strategies continues to grow among wealth clients in APAC. Franklin Templeton’s alternatives AuM reached $286 billion as of 30 April. The firm has raised approximately $23 billion in private markets over the past two quarters, it said in a statement.
Chee holds a bachelor of science (honours) in economics from the University of Warwick, UK.
His appointment is subject to regulatory approval by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Dechert
Dechert, an
international law firm, has added a two-partner team in its
corporate and securities practice group to bolster the firm’s
APAC global mergers and acquisitions expertise.
David Cho is rejoining the firm, while Min Kim is joining as a new addition to the team. Both previous worked at Milbank.
Cho draws on over three decades of expertise in advising multinational clients including major Asian conglomerates on cross-border M&A, corporate finance as well as capital markets transactions across a broad range of sectors spanning private equity, technology, telecommunications, manufacturing, insurance and energy. Previously, Cho was managing partner of Milbank’s Seoul office. Prior to that, he served as co-managing partner of Asia at Dechert for a decade.
Kim was special counsel in Milbank's global corporate/M&A group. He advises corporate and private equity clients on cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures and strategic investments throughout the APAC region, with deep experience in the technology, digital infrastructure and energy transition sectors. Kim has represented US and international private equity sponsors, multinational corporations and sovereign wealth funds.