Raluca is the Founder and Managing Director of Legally Said, whose mission is to help investors and social entrepreneurs build resilient, impact-focused companies and increase the reach of impact capital.

She spent her career supporting ambitious social entrepreneurs in growing their businesses, making investing more sustainable and inclusive, and reshaping the legal profession to serve the transformation of our economies.

She served as the first general counsel of Fairphone, a leading Dutch tech social enterprise. Guiding its growth from inception to over €50 million in fundraising has provided invaluable insights into the challenges of scaling and funding sustainable entrepreneurship.

As a Co-Founder of the Legal Innovation for Sustainable Investments (LISI) Foundation, she has been dedicated to advancing legal models for sustainable investments. LISI’s work includes creating the open-source Impact Term Sheet, recognised with the 2023 Dutch Legal Awards prize, which aims to facilitate more impactful equity investments worldwide.

Nicholas’s main practice area focuses primarily on private M&As with a specific emphasis on private equity, joint venture and venture capital work. He regularly acts for venture capital investors, corporate venture capital arms and startups.

Chambers Asia-Pacific notes that Nicholas “acts as transaction counsel for a range of startups and venture capital investors, including advising on both early and later-stage investments”. Clients have noted that Nicholas “provided us with an incredibly high level of service, calibrated his service to our goals and needs, and worked collaboratively with opposing counsel to reach good results”.

Nicholas has been recognised as a Band 5 practitioner in the Startups & Emerging Companies category for Singapore by Chambers Asia-Pacific, and a Next Generation Partner in the Start-up and Venture Capital – Local Firms category for Singapore by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific. In addition, Nicholas is also recommended by Who’s Who Legal for Southeast Asia – M&A, and won the Lexology Client Choice Award 2024 in the Singapore M&A category.

Nicholas is a member of the Venture Capital Model Investment Agreements (VIMA) working group, which was jointly established by the Singapore Academy of Law’s Promotion of Singapore Law Committee and the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. He is also a facilitator for the Singapore Legal Institute of Legal Education Part B Course.

Fernanda is a Partner and Co-head of LeapFrog’s Asian financial services team, responsible for originating investments and driving value and growth across the firm’s diverse portfolio. She has over 20 years of experience in private equity, since joining AIG Global Investment Group in London in 2002. From 2008, she focuses on Asia by taking an active management approach. Her team works to grow or turn around inclusive finance institutions across the region, making them attractive to strategics and capital markets.

Fernanda joined LeapFrog from Developing World Markets, a US-based pioneer and a sizable impact asset manager, where she was Managing Director. She invested and managed private equity investments for two funds . Her portfolio companies has spread across Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Vietnam and she has held Board seats and leadership roles managing diverse teams, Boards and senior staff.

She holds a Master of Science in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and a Master in Business Administration from the University of London (Imperial College). She was a British Chevening Scholar (funded by the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office) and speaks three languages. Fernanda has worked in four continents and moved to Singapore in 2013, where she lives with her husband and three sons.