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Greater China Roadshow  

Investment today -

Macro environment

and fund dynamics  

27 Jun 2023 @ Huangpu, Shanghai

29 Jun 2023 @ Chaoyang, Beijing 

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Greater China Roadshow

Investment today -

Macro environment and fund dynamics

27 Jun 2023 @ Huangpu, Shanghai

29 Jun 2023 @ Chaoyang, Beijing  

大中华路演

今日投资 - 

解读宏观环境和

基金市场动态

6月27日 @ 上海

6月29日 @ 北京

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Featured speakers

Anthony Lau is Deloitte China’s South China International and M&A Tax Leader. He is a tax partner based in Hong Kong, specializing in Hong Kong, the PRC and international tax planning. Anthony regularly advises investment funds on their formation issues, encompassing areas such as top side and downstream tax structuring, acquisitions, investment exits and due diligence. He has extensive experience in advising the fee arrangement for fund managers from a transfer pricing perspective and reviewing and providing practical tax advice on fund formation and constitutional documentation. Other matters advised include the formulation of tax efficient carried interest or remuneration plans for fund professionals. Anthony was actively engaged in lobbying the Hong Kong SAR Government to clarify the profits tax exemption for offshore funds before the exemption law was extended to cover private equity funds in July 2015, and also on the introduction of the unified Hong Kong tax exemption regime for all funds in 2019 and tax exemption for carried interest in 2021. Meanwhile, Anthony has also been heavily involved during the consultation stage concerning the introduction of the foreign-sourced income exemption regime and tax concession for family offices in 2022. Anthony also provided critical insights to the Hong Kong SAR Government on the enhancement and development of the preferential tax regime for qualified corporate treasury centres in Hong Kong.   

Connie Wong is a Managing Director based in the Singapore operation where she oversees strategic partnerships and business growth for the Asia-Pacific region. Connie also serves as an independent director to Asia-based hedge funds, private equity funds and venture capital funds with varying structure and investment strategies across multiple jurisdictions.  Connie joined Waystone in 2015 and was based initially in the Cayman Islands office, before subsequently moving to roles based in the Hong Kong and Singapore operations.  Prior to joining Waystone, Connie was a manager of the Finance and Fund Referred Reporting Engagement Group at PwC in the Cayman Islands, where she managed the finance operations for the Cayman Islands and Bahamas offices and liaised on financial and operating matters with all business units within the company, including the Caribbean region. While at PwC, Connie managed a portfolio of hedge fund clients in North America and managed the financial reporting requirements of investment funds across jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands, North America and Luxembourg. Connie was also responsible for reviewing the financial statements of CIMA registered funds received from the global PwC network.  In addition to her native Cantonese, Connie is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese and Hokkien/Taiwanese.  

Elaine joined Waystone in 2011, and has over 10 years of experience working within finance, compliance and investment management.  As a Director, Elaine manages a portfolio of Waystone client funds, ensuring the relevant regulatory and compliance requirements are met for both hedge fund and private equity clients. Her vast skill set allows her to offer guidance on regulatory, legal, accounting and financial issues.  Elaine works closely with Waystone’s independent directors and the regional Business Development teams on all aspects of business planning and strategy.  Elaine graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Economics.    

Erin Wu joined Oriental Patron in 2014. She has over 10 years of experience in capital introduction and investor relations, providing fund structuring, capital introduction and investor relations services to Asian hedge fund managers. She establishes and maintains OPIM's connections with global institutional investors, including seeders, fund of funds, family offices, advisors, and university endowments. Prior to joining OPIM, Erin was an Assistant Vice President at a Hong Kong listed investment company. Before that, she worked at two IR firms provided investor relations and public relations services to Hong Kong listed companies. Erin holds a Master's degree of Communication from Hong Kong Baptist University and a Bachelor's degree of Journalism from Communication University of China.

Felicia works in the Securities & Fiduciary Services team in DBS Hong Kong, managing sales and marketing efforts for the full range of securities and fiduciary services and related products including securities custody and fund administration services, covering Hong Kong and China market.   Before joining DBS, Felicia worked in business development at an international law firm with a focus on fund administration business covering private equity funds, hedge funds, fund of funds, and family offices. She is knowledgeable in various offshore fund structures and strategies with in-depth knowledge of fund and asset management industry across the APAC region.    Felicia holds a Master degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  

Haw Rer has spent over a decade in the PE/VC industry across as both an investor and fundraiser. The first half of his career was spent as an LP in Singapore and Hong Kong at Cambridge Associates and GCM Grosvenor, investing in Asian alternative funds across PE, VC, and private credit. Subsequently, Haw Rer moved to Shanghai to help lead the Shanghai office of Eaton Partners, a global placement agent, before leaving in 2021 to set up Pangaea Alternative Advisors, an Asia focused GP-advisory firm that assists with both primary fundraising and complex secondary transactions.  Having developed deep networks across both the LP and GP spheres, Haw Rer has been leveraging his experience on both the buy- and sell-side to advice funds on the structuring of their investment strategies and subsequent capital raising.    

Mr Ivan Lau is DBS Bank’s Vice President and joined DBS Institutional Banking Group in Apr 2011.  Mr Lau is a seasoned banker with more than 15 years solid banking experience in financial services. He is familar in dealing with Non-Bank Financial Institution, Asset Manager, Fund Manager and Family Office.  Mr Lau holds a Bachelor’s degree in HK Polytechnic University and a chartered FRM® (Financial Risk Manager) since 2008.

Jason Zhang is Deloitte China VCPE Program Northern Region Leader, in charge of executing and integrating all Deloitte’s resources to serve the VCPE clients closely and effectively. Jason has more than 20 years of extensive experience in serving client to go public in various capital markets. Jason is specialized in IFRSs and U.S. GAAP and is familiar with the differences between U.S. GAAP, IFRSs and PRC GAAP. Jason is based in Beijing office and worked in Deloitte Boston, HongKong offices before. He has also worked as finance leaders in certain corporations. He has accumulated rick experience in capital market, financial management and financing arrangements.

Jenny is part of Ogier’s investment funds team and focuses on assisting local mainland Chinese fund managers launch offshore fund and management entities, primarily domiciled in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands (BVI). She has technical legal expertise in relation to the formation, structuring and restructuring of all types of open-ended and closed-end funds, including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds. Jenny works closely with Ogier's legal teams based in Hong Kong in relation to the launch of multiple, complex offshore fund structures for the fund managers in China, as well as a broad range of corporate transactions involving Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands companies. Jenny previously worked for Maples and Calder in London and Hong Kong, and for Dentons in Shanghai. Her clients include leading global and top-tier regional private equity and venture capital sponsors, some of the biggest securities houses in China and various start-up managers. Jenny is regularly invited to speak at high profile industry conferences and seminars as an offshore legal expert. She is fluent in Chinese.

Mr. John Zhu is the Eastern Managing Partner of Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu's audit consulting team. He is an expert in accounting standards for enterprises and management accounting methodologies, with a particular focus on post-merger and integration transformation management, design of control mode, financial data analysis, and accounting standardization services. John has helped numerous small and medium-sized enterprises grow and develop to the capital market. He is a Certified Public Accountant in China, a Certified Public Accountant in Australia, and a global Chartered Management Accountant.

Judy Xie is a Tax Partner of the International and M&A Tax Services team currently based in Shanghai.  She has more than 15 years of experience in providing international tax services to multi-jurisdictional wealth families and high-net-worth individual with HK, PRC and U.S. background.  Judy's areas of focus include multi-jurisdictional trust planning and pre-IPO trust planning, U.S. individual income taxation, as well as gift and estate taxation and planning. Judy also has substantial experiences in providing U.S. tax compliance and advisory services to U.S. individuals, USD funds and corporations.  Judy is also familiar with FATCA and CRS issues of financial institutions. Judy is a qualified member of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.  She is also a Certified Public Accountant licensed by the State of New Hampshire, U.S.  

Mr. Gao has practiced law for almost two decades and has extensive experience in a variety of fields and industries. His major practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, formation and deployment of private equity funds, securities offerings, and corporate restructurings.  Mr. Gao has been legal counsel to numerous leading investment institutions, multinational companies, and unicorn companies, for whom he has provided a full range of legal services, from deal structuring and legal documentation to closing, for their various cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and financing projects in industries covering internet, computer software, entertainment media, education and training, consumer and retail, and healthcare services.  Mr. Gao routinely serves as counsel to many leading institutional investors.  Over the years, Mr. Gao has been actively involved in structuring and establishing onshore and offshore China-focused private equity funds for both foreign and domestic fund sponsors and investors, and has represented many well-known institutional investors and industrial investors in various private equity investments and M&A transactions.  Mr. Gao has also advised issuers as well as underwriters in several high-profile overseas IPOs involving Chinese companies or operations.  

Mr Nathan Chow is DBS Bank’s Executive Director and Senior Economist and he joined us in May 2011.  Mr Chow is responsible for monitoring the market development of offshore RMB businesses and the macroeconomic conditions in Greater China. He conducts economic/ investment seminars on a regular basis for the public and internal staff across Asia, spanning from Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei to Shanghai and Beijing. Mr Chow also provides training for internal staff with an aim to support sales programmes. As a guest speaker, he delivers lectures for postgraduates on MBA courses at the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  Prior to joining DBS Bank, Mr Chow had stayed with China International Capital Corporation Limited, China Investment Corporation and Hong Kong Monetary Authority as economist and analyst. Mr Chow’s expertise focuses on macroeconomics and financial market research.  Mr Chow speaks regularly to the electronic media such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Wall Street Journal, TVB, NowTV, and Cable TV and various print media, like Financial Times, Fortune, Asiamoney, and China Daily providing his professional insights on finance and economics. Mr Chow also speaks on economic forums and conferences, such as those convened by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Treasury Markets Association, and Hong Kong Institute of Bankers.  Mr Chow holds a Bachelor and a Master degree in Economics from Simon Fraser University.    

Nick is the Practice Partner of Ogier in Hong Kong and the Head of Ogier's Investment Funds team in Asia. He acts for a wide variety of Asian fund managers in the private equity, long only and hedge fund space. His clients represent some of the more sophisticated and respected fund managers in Asia. Nick has been named one of the top offshore lawyers in Asia by Asian Legal Business on its Offshore Client Choice List for six consecutive years and he has also been ranked as one of the "World's Leading Investment Funds Lawyers" in four editions of Euromoney's Expert Guides.  Nick joined Ogier in January 2006 from Slaughter and May, London where he practiced as a corporate M&A lawyer. He subsequently founded Ogier's Hong Kong office in February 2007. Nick's primary focus has since been on building Ogier's now significant Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands investment funds and venture capital practice in Asia. He acts for a wide variety of Asian fund managers in the private equity, long only and hedge fund space. His clients represent some of the more sophisticated and respected fund managers in Asia. Nick is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team.    

Reuben Lai is the Vice President of Private Capital for Preqin in the Hong Kong office. He is leading the Private Capital, Investors and Hedge Fund Research teams, all based in Hong Kong, primarily working on the comprehensiveness of the coverage in the Greater China area. Previously, he was managing the Private Capital team, as well as an offshore team in Guangzhou. He is primarily responsible of the operations and present Preqin’s house view on the alternatives market. Reuben holds a Bachelor in Cognitive Science from the University of British Columbia, Canada.    

Roy is a tax partner based in Hong Kong. He has more than 16 years of experience providing Hong Kong, China and international tax consulting, as well as Hong Kong tax compliance services for financial services clients (including banking and securities groups, insurance companies, investment funds and asset managers) and MNC clients. He is specialized in advising offshore private equity funds, hedge funds and family offices on their Hong Kong and China tax issues at fund formation, in particular the applicability of the fund exemption regime in Hong Kong and the potential issue in China on indirect transfer in equity.  He is also experienced in providing advice on the tax efficient investment holding structures from profit repatriation and future exit perspectives.  Roy has resolved disputes with the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department on field audit & investigation cases involving fund managers in Hong Kong. From an international tax perspective, Roy has also led various regional tax projects on group restructuring, cross-broader transactions, merger and acquisition deals for PE funds, banks and insurance companies, which involves diverse jurisdictions such as Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, etc.

Mr. Li joined Han Kun Law Offices in April 2015.  He specializes in venture capital and private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, and general corporate matters.  He has represented a large number of venture capital funds, private equity funds, strategic investors, and entrepreneurs in various industry sectors in their investment and financing projects, assisting in forming deal structures, drafting legal documents, and participating in negotiations.  He has also advised foreign companies on their foreign direct investments, mergers and acquisitions, and local compliance issues in China.  Mr. Li's clients operate in a wide variety of industry sectors including telecommunications, Internet, media, technology, consumer goods, education, manufacturing, insurance, new energy, and logistics.  From August 2008 to March 2015, Mr. Li was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in Beijing.  Prior to that, he spent over one year working for TransAsia Lawyers.  Mr. Li received an LL.B. degree in 2005 from Beijing University of Technology.  In 2007, he obtained an LL.M. degree from Renmin University of China.    

Simon Yip, CFA, FRM is a Team Lead of Institutional Treasury Management at DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and he joined us in Sep 2017.  Mr Yip is responsible for client relationship management focusing on the fund industry. His team provides wide range of corporate banking products and services to asset managers and funds including private equites and hedge funds, mostly from Asia especially Greater China.  He has over 12 years of extensive experience in the banking industry. Mr Yip worked in different international banks prior to joining DBS.  Simon holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is a CFA chartered holder and certified FRM.    

Mr. Shou is the chief investment officer at Skybound Capital. With an academic background in China, Theodore Shou started his career lecturing economics. Subsequently, Shou worked on investment roles with HSBC, where he was mostly specialised in manager selection and asset allocation. He was stationed in London, New York, Geneva and Hong Kong. Shou joined Skybound Capital in 2011 to set up its Asian business before taking up more roles within the group. Mr. Shou holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Economics. He is a CFA charter holder and a CAIA charter holder. Meanwhile, he serves as director to various public and private companies globally, while he also serves as Chapter Executive at CAIA Hong Kong. 

Yifan Zheng is currently Assistant Vice President in Institutional Banking Group, DBS Hong Kong, responsible for business development and partnership in Greater China, focusing on DBS Asset Management Banking Solution.  Yifan has more than 7 years of experience covering institutional and corporate clients in Greater China, with a focus on asset manager and funds. Prior to DBS Hong Kong, Yifan had stayed in Oriental Patron and Maybank Investment Bank managing institutional & corporate sales. Yifan received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.    

Yiyin has spent around 10 years within the Asia Pacific PE and VC landscape. She was part of the teams at two global LPs, Cambridge Associates and AlpInvest Partners, covering investments in the Asia Pacific region, and later co-founded Pangaea Alternative Advisors, an Asia focused GP-advisory firm that assists with both primary fundraising and complex secondary transactions across China and Southeast Asia.  As a native Chinese speaker with a strong understanding of local culture, as well as having developed deep networks across the institutional LP space, Yiyin has been leveraging her experience to advice funds on the structuring of their investment strategies and subsequent capital raising within the global LP space.    

Featured speakers

Anthony Lau is Deloitte China’s South China International and M&A Tax Leader. He is a tax partner based in Hong Kong, specializing in Hong Kong, the PRC and international tax planning. Anthony regularly advises investment funds on their formation issues, encompassing areas such as top side and downstream tax structuring, acquisitions, investment exits and due diligence. He has extensive experience in advising the fee arrangement for fund managers from a transfer pricing perspective and reviewing and providing practical tax advice on fund formation and constitutional documentation. Other matters advised include the formulation of tax efficient carried interest or remuneration plans for fund professionals. Anthony was actively engaged in lobbying the Hong Kong SAR Government to clarify the profits tax exemption for offshore funds before the exemption law was extended to cover private equity funds in July 2015, and also on the introduction of the unified Hong Kong tax exemption regime for all funds in 2019 and tax exemption for carried interest in 2021. Meanwhile, Anthony has also been heavily involved during the consultation stage concerning the introduction of the foreign-sourced income exemption regime and tax concession for family offices in 2022. Anthony also provided critical insights to the Hong Kong SAR Government on the enhancement and development of the preferential tax regime for qualified corporate treasury centres in Hong Kong.   

Connie Wong is a Managing Director based in the Singapore operation where she oversees strategic partnerships and business growth for the Asia-Pacific region. Connie also serves as an independent director to Asia-based hedge funds, private equity funds and venture capital funds with varying structure and investment strategies across multiple jurisdictions.  Connie joined Waystone in 2015 and was based initially in the Cayman Islands office, before subsequently moving to roles based in the Hong Kong and Singapore operations.  Prior to joining Waystone, Connie was a manager of the Finance and Fund Referred Reporting Engagement Group at PwC in the Cayman Islands, where she managed the finance operations for the Cayman Islands and Bahamas offices and liaised on financial and operating matters with all business units within the company, including the Caribbean region. While at PwC, Connie managed a portfolio of hedge fund clients in North America and managed the financial reporting requirements of investment funds across jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands, North America and Luxembourg. Connie was also responsible for reviewing the financial statements of CIMA registered funds received from the global PwC network.  In addition to her native Cantonese, Connie is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese and Hokkien/Taiwanese.  

Elaine joined Waystone in 2011, and has over 10 years of experience working within finance, compliance and investment management.  As a Director, Elaine manages a portfolio of Waystone client funds, ensuring the relevant regulatory and compliance requirements are met for both hedge fund and private equity clients. Her vast skill set allows her to offer guidance on regulatory, legal, accounting and financial issues.  Elaine works closely with Waystone’s independent directors and the regional Business Development teams on all aspects of business planning and strategy.  Elaine graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Economics.    

Erin Wu joined Oriental Patron in 2014. She has over 10 years of experience in capital introduction and investor relations, providing fund structuring, capital introduction and investor relations services to Asian hedge fund managers. She establishes and maintains OPIM's connections with global institutional investors, including seeders, fund of funds, family offices, advisors, and university endowments. Prior to joining OPIM, Erin was an Assistant Vice President at a Hong Kong listed investment company. Before that, she worked at two IR firms provided investor relations and public relations services to Hong Kong listed companies. Erin holds a Master's degree of Communication from Hong Kong Baptist University and a Bachelor's degree of Journalism from Communication University of China.  

  Felicia works in the Securities & Fiduciary Services team in DBS Hong Kong, managing sales and marketing efforts for the full range of securities and fiduciary services and related products including securities custody and fund administration services, covering Hong Kong and China market.   Before joining DBS, Felicia worked in business development at an international law firm with a focus on fund administration business covering private equity funds, hedge funds, fund of funds, and family offices. She is knowledgeable in various offshore fund structures and strategies with in-depth knowledge of fund and asset management industry across the APAC region.    Felicia holds a Master degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.    

Haw Rer has spent over a decade in the PE/VC industry across as both an investor and fundraiser. The first half of his career was spent as an LP in Singapore and Hong Kong at Cambridge Associates and GCM Grosvenor, investing in Asian alternative funds across PE, VC, and private credit. Subsequently, Haw Rer moved to Shanghai to help lead the Shanghai office of Eaton Partners, a global placement agent, before leaving in 2021 to set up Pangaea Alternative Advisors, an Asia focused GP-advisory firm that assists with both primary fundraising and complex secondary transactions.  Having developed deep networks across both the LP and GP spheres, Haw Rer has been leveraging his experience on both the buy- and sell-side to advice funds on the structuring of their investment strategies and subsequent capital raising. 

Mr Ivan Lau is DBS Bank’s Vice President and joined DBS Institutional Banking Group in Apr 2011.  Mr Lau is a seasoned banker with more than 15 years solid banking experience in financial services. He is familar in dealing with Non-Bank Financial Institution, Asset Manager, Fund Manager and Family Office.  Mr Lau holds a Bachelor’s degree in HK Polytechnic University and a chartered FRM® (Financial Risk Manager) since 2008.  

Jason Zhang is Deloitte China VCPE Program Northern Region Leader, in charge of executing and integrating all Deloitte’s resources to serve the VCPE clients closely and effectively. Jason has more than 20 years of extensive experience in serving client to go public in various capital markets. Jason is specialized in IFRSs and U.S. GAAP and is familiar with the differences between U.S. GAAP, IFRSs and PRC GAAP. Jason is based in Beijing office and worked in Deloitte Boston, HongKong offices before. He has also worked as finance leaders in certain corporations. He has accumulated rick experience in capital market, financial management and financing arrangements.

Jenny is part of Ogier’s investment funds team and focuses on assisting local mainland Chinese fund managers launch offshore fund and management entities, primarily domiciled in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands (BVI). She has technical legal expertise in relation to the formation, structuring and restructuring of all types of open-ended and closed-end funds, including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds. Jenny works closely with Ogier's legal teams based in Hong Kong in relation to the launch of multiple, complex offshore fund structures for the fund managers in China, as well as a broad range of corporate transactions involving Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands companies. Jenny previously worked for Maples and Calder in London and Hong Kong, and for Dentons in Shanghai. Her clients include leading global and top-tier regional private equity and venture capital sponsors, some of the biggest securities houses in China and various start-up managers. Jenny is regularly invited to speak at high profile industry conferences and seminars as an offshore legal expert. She is fluent in Chinese.

Mr. John Zhu is the Eastern Managing Partner of Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu's audit consulting team. He is an expert in accounting standards for enterprises and management accounting methodologies, with a particular focus on post-merger and integration transformation management, design of control mode, financial data analysis, and accounting standardization services. John has helped numerous small and medium-sized enterprises grow and develop to the capital market. He is a Certified Public Accountant in China, a Certified Public Accountant in Australia, and a global Chartered Management Accountant.

Judy Xie is a Tax Partner of the International and M&A Tax Services team currently based in Shanghai.  She has more than 15 years of experience in providing international tax services to multi-jurisdictional wealth families and high-net-worth individual with HK, PRC and U.S. background.  Judy's areas of focus include multi-jurisdictional trust planning and pre-IPO trust planning, U.S. individual income taxation, as well as gift and estate taxation and planning. Judy also has substantial experiences in providing U.S. tax compliance and advisory services to U.S. individuals, USD funds and corporations.  Judy is also familiar with FATCA and CRS issues of financial institutions. Judy is a qualified member of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.  She is also a Certified Public Accountant licensed by the State of New Hampshire, U.S.  

Mr. Gao has practiced law for almost two decades and has extensive experience in a variety of fields and industries. His major practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, formation and deployment of private equity funds, securities offerings, and corporate restructurings.  Mr. Gao has been legal counsel to numerous leading investment institutions, multinational companies, and unicorn companies, for whom he has provided a full range of legal services, from deal structuring and legal documentation to closing, for their various cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and financing projects in industries covering internet, computer software, entertainment media, education and training, consumer and retail, and healthcare services.  Mr. Gao routinely serves as counsel to many leading institutional investors.  Over the years, Mr. Gao has been actively involved in structuring and establishing onshore and offshore China-focused private equity funds for both foreign and domestic fund sponsors and investors, and has represented many well-known institutional investors and industrial investors in various private equity investments and M&A transactions.  Mr. Gao has also advised issuers as well as underwriters in several high-profile overseas IPOs involving Chinese companies or operations.    

Mr Nathan Chow is DBS Bank’s Executive Director and Senior Economist and he joined us in May 2011.  Mr Chow is responsible for monitoring the market development of offshore RMB businesses and the macroeconomic conditions in Greater China. He conducts economic/ investment seminars on a regular basis for the public and internal staff across Asia, spanning from Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei to Shanghai and Beijing. Mr Chow also provides training for internal staff with an aim to support sales programmes. As a guest speaker, he delivers lectures for postgraduates on MBA courses at the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  Prior to joining DBS Bank, Mr Chow had stayed with China International Capital Corporation Limited, China Investment Corporation and Hong Kong Monetary Authority as economist and analyst. Mr Chow’s expertise focuses on macroeconomics and financial market research.  Mr Chow speaks regularly to the electronic media such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Wall Street Journal, TVB, NowTV, and Cable TV and various print media, like Financial Times, Fortune, Asiamoney, and China Daily providing his professional insights on finance and economics. Mr Chow also speaks on economic forums and conferences, such as those convened by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Treasury Markets Association, and Hong Kong Institute of Bankers.  Mr Chow holds a Bachelor and a Master degree in Economics from Simon Fraser University.      

Nick is the Practice Partner of Ogier in Hong Kong and the Head of Ogier's Investment Funds team in Asia. He acts for a wide variety of Asian fund managers in the private equity, long only and hedge fund space. His clients represent some of the more sophisticated and respected fund managers in Asia. Nick has been named one of the top offshore lawyers in Asia by Asian Legal Business on its Offshore Client Choice List for six consecutive years and he has also been ranked as one of the "World's Leading Investment Funds Lawyers" in four editions of Euromoney's Expert Guides.  Nick joined Ogier in January 2006 from Slaughter and May, London where he practiced as a corporate M&A lawyer. He subsequently founded Ogier's Hong Kong office in February 2007. Nick's primary focus has since been on building Ogier's now significant Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands investment funds and venture capital practice in Asia. He acts for a wide variety of Asian fund managers in the private equity, long only and hedge fund space. His clients represent some of the more sophisticated and respected fund managers in Asia. Nick is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team.      

Reuben Lai is the Vice President of Private Capital for Preqin in the Hong Kong office. He is leading the Private Capital, Investors and Hedge Fund Research teams, all based in Hong Kong, primarily working on the comprehensiveness of the coverage in the Greater China area. Previously, he was managing the Private Capital team, as well as an offshore team in Guangzhou. He is primarily responsible of the operations and present Preqin’s house view on the alternatives market. Reuben holds a Bachelor in Cognitive Science from the University of British Columbia, Canada.      

Roy is a tax partner based in Hong Kong. He has more than 16 years of experience providing Hong Kong, China and international tax consulting, as well as Hong Kong tax compliance services for financial services clients (including banking and securities groups, insurance companies, investment funds and asset managers) and MNC clients. He is specialized in advising offshore private equity funds, hedge funds and family offices on their Hong Kong and China tax issues at fund formation, in particular the applicability of the fund exemption regime in Hong Kong and the potential issue in China on indirect transfer in equity.  He is also experienced in providing advice on the tax efficient investment holding structures from profit repatriation and future exit perspectives.  Roy has resolved disputes with the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department on field audit & investigation cases involving fund managers in Hong Kong. From an international tax perspective, Roy has also led various regional tax projects on group restructuring, cross-broader transactions, merger and acquisition deals for PE funds, banks and insurance companies, which involves diverse jurisdictions such as Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, etc.

Mr. Li joined Han Kun Law Offices in April 2015.  He specializes in venture capital and private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, and general corporate matters.  He has represented a large number of venture capital funds, private equity funds, strategic investors, and entrepreneurs in various industry sectors in their investment and financing projects, assisting in forming deal structures, drafting legal documents, and participating in negotiations.  He has also advised foreign companies on their foreign direct investments, mergers and acquisitions, and local compliance issues in China.  Mr. Li's clients operate in a wide variety of industry sectors including telecommunications, Internet, media, technology, consumer goods, education, manufacturing, insurance, new energy, and logistics.  From August 2008 to March 2015, Mr. Li was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in Beijing.  Prior to that, he spent over one year working for TransAsia Lawyers.  Mr. Li received an LL.B. degree in 2005 from Beijing University of Technology.  In 2007, he obtained an LL.M. degree from Renmin University of China.      

Simon Yip, CFA, FRM is a Team Lead of Institutional Treasury Management at DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and he joined us in Sep 2017.  Mr Yip is responsible for client relationship management focusing on the fund industry. His team provides wide range of corporate banking products and services to asset managers and funds including private equites and hedge funds, mostly from Asia especially Greater China.  He has over 12 years of extensive experience in the banking industry. Mr Yip worked in different international banks prior to joining DBS.  Simon holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is a CFA chartered holder and certified FRM.  

Mr. Shou is the chief investment officer at Skybound Capital. With an academic background in China, Theodore Shou started his career lecturing economics. Subsequently, Shou worked on investment roles with HSBC, where he was mostly specialised in manager selection and asset allocation. He was stationed in London, New York, Geneva and Hong Kong. Shou joined Skybound Capital in 2011 to set up its Asian business before taking up more roles within the group. Mr. Shou holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Economics. He is a CFA charter holder and a CAIA charter holder. Meanwhile, he serves as director to various public and private companies globally, while he also serves as Chapter Executive at CAIA Hong Kong.   

Yifan Zheng is currently Assistant Vice President in Institutional Banking Group, DBS Hong Kong, responsible for business development and partnership in Greater China, focusing on DBS Asset Management Banking Solution.  Yifan has more than 7 years of experience covering institutional and corporate clients in Greater China, with a focus on asset manager and funds. Prior to DBS Hong Kong, Yifan had stayed in Oriental Patron and Maybank Investment Bank managing institutional & corporate sales. Yifan received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Yiyin has spent around 10 years within the Asia Pacific PE and VC landscape. She was part of the teams at two global LPs, Cambridge Associates and AlpInvest Partners, covering investments in the Asia Pacific region, and later co-founded Pangaea Alternative Advisors, an Asia focused GP-advisory firm that assists with both primary fundraising and complex secondary transactions across China and Southeast Asia.  As a native Chinese speaker with a strong understanding of local culture, as well as having developed deep networks across the institutional LP space, Yiyin has been leveraging her experience to advice funds on the structuring of their investment strategies and subsequent capital raising within the global LP space.