K&L Gates Straits Law, the Singapore office of global law firm K&L Gates, has added Jason Nelms as a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds practice. He joins from Morrison Foerster, where he was instrumental in building their regional Investment Funds practice. With two decades of experience in Asia and the US, Nelms focuses on advising Asia-based and US sponsors and investors in the structuring, formation and offering of private investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, hedge funds, co-investment vehicles and other alternative investment products. He also advises fund sponsors on management company structuring, carried interest plans, shareholders’ agreements and related internal governance matters, and has counseled investment firms and their principals on the purchase and sale of significant minority interests in asset management businesses.