Kern’s areas of practice include equity and debt capital markets and general corporate and compliance advisory work for Singapore-listed companies. He has advised issuers and underwriters on capital markets transactions including initial public offerings of companies and business trusts, rights issues, placements, establishments of debt issuance programmes, offerings of straight debt, retail bonds and perpetual securities, liability management exercises and listings of debt securities on the Singapore Exchange. He also advises issuers on post-listing regulatory and compliance matters.