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Vincent is a Lecturer of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. His research interests broadly lie in the intersection between tax and private law, with particular interests in beneficial ownership. Vincent was previously Law Supervisor at Peterhouse College, Cambridge and has held research positions at all three law schools in Singapore (SMU, NUS, and SUSS). He has been a guest lecturer at leading institutions such as the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University, and is regularly invited to speak at various conferences and seminars. Vincent was previously Deputy Head of Tax at a Singapore law firm and continues to consult for law firms as a locum solicitor. Vincent was Co-Chair of the 2022 SMU IFA David R Tillinghast Global Digital Taxation Conference.
Vincent’s research has been published in in over 40 academic articles and book chapters, including in leading journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, Journal of Business Law, Australian Tax Review, Capital Markets Law Journal, eJournal of Tax Research, and Revenue Law Journal. His books include: 1) Singapore Trusts Law (2021); and 2) Halsbury's Laws of Singapore (Income Tax and Other Taxes) (2020 and 2018 respectively). His work has been cited over 100 times, including by: 1) leading English Law texts such as Hanbury & Martin: Modern Equity; Charlesworth & Percy on Negligence; Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability; and JC Smith’s The Law of Contract; 2) leading Singapore Law texts such as Contract Law in Singapore; Real Estate and Taxation in Singapore; and The Law of Contract in Singapore; 3) the members of the Singapore judiciary (judicial and extra-judicial writing); and 4) leading organisations such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); and the Research Office of the Legislative Council Secretariat (Hong Kong).
Vincent is currently reading for a PhD in Tax Law at Downing College, Cambridge, courtesy of an MOE-START Overseas PhD Scholarship. He read for his undergraduate law degree at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with double first class honours, and as the top law student in Trinity College, Mowat Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal. Vincent has been awarded several prizes and grants, including the Australasian Tax Teachers’ Association’s Best Tax Research Paper Prize and the Tax Academy of Singapore Research Grant.
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