Kan Jie Marcus Ho

Personal Bio

Job Title: Incoming Practice Trainee at Allen & Gledhill LLP

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Marcus pursued his undergraduate degree in Law at the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College) in the United Kingdom, and graduated from Harvard Law School with a Master of Laws as a Dean’s Scholar. His main areas of interest in the legal discipline are primarily focused on the development of law and regulation in the technological ecosystem. During his time at Harvard Law School, Marcus was awarded the Harvard Law Dean's Scholar Prize for finishing top of his cohort in the Computer Science (CS50) for Lawyers module led by Professor David Malan, the Gordan McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science. Marcus also formerly served as a Research Assistant to Emeritus Professor Hal Scott, where he holds the position of data lead for the 24th Edition of Scott & Gelpern's International Finance: Transactions, Policy, and Regulation. As a result, he conducted extensive data intensive research on relevant areas such as Equity Market Stuctures, Swaps, International Capital Markets, Debt Financing and Project Financing.

Marcus graduated from Cambridge with a First Class Honours, having been twice elected a Leonard Coling Law Scholar and an awardee of the Sidney Sussex Law Tripos Prize for his oustanding academic achievements, which includes an exceptional starred first class mark with distinction in Equity. During his time at Cambridge, Marcus served as an associate editor for the Singapore Comparative Law Review, a leading Singapore - UK Law Journal patronised by the former Chief Justice of Singapore, Justice Chan Sek Keong. He has edited major submissions from distinguished members of the legal fraternity, such as Lord Neuberger from the UK Supreme Court. Marcus has published in leading law journals and blogs like the Cambridge Law Review (De Lege Ferenda), the Broad Street Humanities Review, the Youth Law Journal as well as the Singapore Comparative Law Review. He has also written for various law blogs administered by leading UK Higher Education Institutions such as the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, having won several prizes in the process. This includes a nomination by Justice Chan Sek Keong for the best Public Law Article in the 2021 Edition of the Singapore Comparative Law Review. He also held work experiences with leading firms and chambers in Singapore and London.

Marcus is an admitted Member (MCIArb) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is part of Stanford University's Moonshot Alliance, having spent 2019 at Stanford University as a Stanford Environmental and Water Studies Scholar where he led a team-based moonshot project through 'imagining the impossible'. Marcus also holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional (A/E/US) qualification and the CIPM as well.