Day: May 20, 2019

Expert Guide – Investment Funds 2019

Vivien Teu & Co LLP is pleased to have been invited by Corporate Livewire to contribute a Hong Kong chapter to its Expert Guide series – Investment Funds 2019. Access the full guide at Corporate Livewire (registration required): http://www.corporatelivewire.com/guide.html?id=investment-funds-2019 Here’s a copy of our Hong Kong chapter:

聚焦香港资产管理

香港的资产管理和基金行业在开放式基础框架下发展成熟并取得成功。这不仅反映在香港接纳和认可基金经理的海外资格和不同市场的经验以在香港设立基金管理公司，也体现在香港对基金设立地采取的中立和不设限制的态度上。在这样的背景下，香港得以发展成为一个世界金融中心，吸引众多的国际机构和集团在此设立资产管理公司。中国大陆的基金公司也在近年纷纷加入其中，到香港来成立资产管理平台，以香港作为中心开拓境外及国际市场。 最近，香港在提升其作为国际金融中心的竞争力和巩固其作为中国大陆门户的地位方面所作的努力使得现状有所改变。国际监管和财务方面的合作也存在新的发展。 本文中我们概要聚焦香港作为一个国际资产管理中心在资产管理领域的主要特点和变化，为资产管理机构将香港纳入其全球策略提供一定的参考依据，并希望有助考虑在香港展开业务的资产管理人探讨香港的潜在新优势。

Focus on Hong Kong Asset Management

Hong Kong has a well-established asset management and funds industry that has been successful under an open architecture framework. This spans from being accepting of fund managers’ overseas qualifications and experiences of different markets to set up in Hong Kong, to being domicile-neutral on the funds that may be offered in Hong Kong on a […]

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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