Mr Vincent Ooi

Vincent is a Lecturer of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and Specialist Counsel at Legal Ink LLC. His research focuses on tax law, with particular interests in beneficial ownership and crypto taxation.  Vincent has consulted for the United Nations and World Bank, and has held research positions at all three law schools in Singapore (SMU, NUS, and SUSS). He has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and has been a guest lecturer at leading institutions such as the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. Vincent was previously Deputy Head of Tax at a Singapore law firm and continues to consult for law firms as a locum solicitor. 

Vincent’s research has been published 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). Vincent’s work has been cited a few hundred 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 Singapore courts; and 4) leading bodies within the United Nations and European Commission. 

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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