Category: Insights

Enhancing Innovation & Growth Potential of Hong Kong GSS+ Bond Market

This publication is a joint effort of China Galaxy Securities, China International Capital Co. Ltd and Lianhe Green Development, and was developed with the coordination of Hong Kong Green Finance Association (HKGFA). This white paper aims to identify innovation opportunities and make market and policy recommendations with a view to further enhancing Hong Kong’s GSS+ […]

UN Global Compact Legal Insights for Business Leaders

What is the role of law and legal functions in navigating the evolving and complex policy and regulatory landscape for corporate environmental and social standards, embedding sustainability principles, fostering transparency, and enabling sustainable growth in the conduct of business? UN Global Compact “Legal Insights for Business Leaders” addresses key challenges such as fragmented global regulations, […]

Mobilising Sustainable Finance to Halt and Reverse Nature Loss

Vivien Teu contributed as one of the co-authors to the HKGFA Nature Finance report – “Mobilising Sustainable Finance to Halt and Reverse Nature Loss” – a timely release following recent COP30 referred to as “Nature COP”. From considering policy and regulatory drivers in the role of frameworks on sustainable finance practices, highlighting dependency risks along […]

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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