Category: Firm News (vivienteu&collp)

Private Wealth Management and Family Offices

With increasing wealth levels in Asia, more family offices are in recent years set up in the region.  This has already been a global trend – in a recent front-page article of The Wall Street Journal, family office was referred to as the new force on Wall Street (“New Force on Wall Street: The ”Family […]

“New regulation redefining HNW investors to hit private banks…”

Vivien Teu & Co spoke to Asian Private Banker on the new regulatory development effective 25 March 2016, which impacts sale and distribution of financial products to professional investors who are high-net-worth individuals or their corporate or trust vehicles.   (See our client update which details the regulatory change.) We were quoted as follows: Private banks […]

10 MRF Southbound Funds Approved Today by SFC

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today approved a total of 10 Mainland funds for retail distribution in Hong Kong under the Mainland-Hong Kong Mutual Recognition of Funds (MRF).  Vivien Teu & Co together with China law firm Llinks Law Offices acted for 6 different Mainland fund management companies in respect of these 10 Mainland funds. […]

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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