Dr Vincent Ooi is an Assistant Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. His research focuses on tax law, with particular interests in attribution by beneficial ownership and crypto tax risks. Vincent has consulted for the United Nations and World Bank, and served as a Participant on the UN Ad Hoc Group on Crypto Taxation. He was previously Deputy Head of Tax at a Singapore law firm and used to regularly consult for law firms on tax and trusts matters. Vincent has been a guest editor of the eJournal of Tax Research and regularly serves as a peer reviewer for numerous leading journals.
Vincent has held research positions at all three law schools in Singapore (SMU, NUS, and SUSS). His research has been published in leading journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, British Tax Review, Journal of Business Law, Australian Tax Review, Capital Markets Law Journal, and eJournal of Tax Research. Vincent’s books include Singapore Trusts Law (2021) and both tax law volumes of Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore: Vol 16(2): Income Tax (2020) and Vol 16: Other Taxes (2018). His work has been cited a few hundred times, including by: 1) members of the Singapore Judiciary (including all levels of the Singapore Supreme Court); 2) leading English Law texts such as Hanbury & Martin: Modern Equity; Charlesworth & Percy on Negligence; and Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability; 3) leading Singapore Law texts such as Contract Law in Singapore; Real Estate and Taxation in Singapore; and The Law of Contract in Singapore; and 4) leading bodies within the United Nations and European Commission. Vincent has been awarded several research prizes and grants, including the Australasian Tax Teachers’ Association’s Best Tax Research Paper Prize and the Tax Academy of Singapore Research Grant
Vincent has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and been a guest lecturer at leading institutions such as the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. He has won several teaching awards including the Most Promising Teacher Award. At an undergraduate level, Vincent has taught Singapore Equity and Trusts Law, Tax Law, and Contract Law; and UK Tax Law and Company Law. He has taught Singapore Private Wealth and Tax Law at a postgraduate level. Vincent read for his doctorate in Tax Law at Downing College, Cambridge, courtesy of an MOE-SMU START Overseas PhD Scholarship. He completed his undergraduate law studies 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.