Dedicating to Impact Ecosystem Building and Practice

Purpose. Sustainability. Integrity.

Vivien Teu Law Practice

At Vivien Teu Law Practice, we provide specialist legal support in the areas of financial services, investment funds, sustainable finance, impact investing and philanthropy. We help clients navigate complex regulatory landscapes in the capital markets, assist on purposeful partnerships and projects, while aligning capital with sustainability and increasing focus on measurable positive environmental and social outcomes.

Our experience spans asset classes, public and private markets, and both for-profit and non-profit sectors, with recognised expertise in integrating ESG principles into transactions and advisory work. Our leadership in sustainable finance, global funds, and industry engagement is matched by a strong commitment to community and ecosystem building – helping clients achieve both financial success and lasting positive change.

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Aligning Capital with Purpose & Sustainability with 25 years’ legal expertise

Advising Purposeful Enterprise

Proudly a GAIL B Corp Advocate

Sustainable Finance, Blended Finance & Social Finance

Responsible Investing & Stewardship

Impact funds & Investing

Private Wealth & Legacy

Our Community

We partner with the financial services industry, asset managers, social enterprises, and civil society to advance responsible capital and sustainable finance. Collaborating with foundations and partners, we support impact projects and philanthropic initiatives that drive innovation, systemic change, and sustainable development—locally, regionally, and globally.

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We would be delighted to discuss how we may assist on any or all of the above with our dedicated practice areas or to help seek solutions. When we are engaged, your goals become our goals to meet, your issues our issues to solve.

Contact us at our general email: enquiry@vteu.co, and we will be in touch shortly.

  • Unit #2002B, 20/F The Centrium, 60 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong
  • Unit 37-2, Level 37, Q Sentral, No. 2A, Jalan Stesen Sentral 2, Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur 50470, Malaysia
  • enquiry@vteu.co

For a deeper perspective on Vivien Teu’s journey and earlier contributions, visit the archived website of Vivien Teu & Co LLP at archive.vteu.co. The archive captures the firm’s foundations in corporate and commercial law, with a strong focus on asset management, funds, and financial services in Hong Kong and Greater China. Today, Vivien Teu Law Practice leads with impact focus, with its emphasis and dedication on sustainable finance, ESG integration, impact investing, social finance and philanthropy, reflecting a continued commitment to aligning law and purpose.

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Vivien Teu is Founder & Principal of Vivien Teu Law Practice / VTLP Impact.  With more than 25 years in-depth experiences in capital markets, financial institutions and asset management industry, financial services, financial and securities regulatory matters, funds formation, investment and finance transactions, Vivien is market leading in her focus on ESG legal and regulatory issues, increasingly integrated into her advisory and transactional practice. She has been active in impact ecosystem building, contributing to standard setting and industry engagements on sustainability, ESG and impact issues and sustainable finance, specifically in the investment and capital markets, holistically covering regulatory, legal and policy perspectives, and advises across the spectrum of capital, ESG issues and asset classes, public and private markets, for-profit, non-profit organisations or hybrid structures, and range of fund structures and financing instruments.

Prior to establishing Vivien Teu Law Practice / VTLP Impact, Vivien has solid industry experience from strategic roles throughout her career, including senior in-house legal experience with global asset management firm, Invesco, and practised with leading international funds and regulatory practice including magic circle law firm Clifford Chance, and most recently with global law firm Dentons, where Vivien assumed key roles as sustainable finance lead on the Global ESG Steering Committee, Global Funds Leaders Group and Global Financial Institutions Practice Group, driving impact focus within mainstream finance and capital markets.  Vivien’s leadership in sustainable finance, global funds and industry engagement is matched with her commitment to community and ecosystem building. 

With the vision of the role of law in purposeful partnerships and projects, to align capital with sustainability and increasing focus on measurable positive environmental and social outcomes, Vivien’s experiences include advising asset owners, asset managers and also charitable foundations in establishing purpose-led initiatives, related stewardship and governance considerations and structure design, B Lab’s legal requirements and certification standards for B Corps, green and sustainable finance frameworks and instruments, legal issues of carbon markets and climate transition, climate mitigation and adaptation strategies and funds, nature-based solutions and finance, impact term-sheets and other innovative finance instruments for impact, advocacy efforts as well as engaging in market proposals for policy, legal and regulatory levers for advancing sustainability and impact.   

 

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