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Maureen Gleeson

Maureen Gleeson is Consultant – Investment Funds & Regulatory at Vivien Teu Law Practice. In addition to eight years in private practice in England and Hong Kong, Maureen has extensive international in-house experience across the funds industry, including investment management, fund administration, and fund distribution.

Maureen earned a Master of Laws (LL.M) with Merit from the London School of Economics and a “Maîtrise en Droit” (French law degree) from the University of Strasbourg, France. She then completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice with Commendation at the College of Law and a two-year training contract with a law firm before being admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2001, the Courts of the Republic of Ireland in 2004, and the High Court of the Hong Kong SAR in 2010. She currently practises only as a solicitor in Hong Kong.

Maureen worked as in-house legal counsel for Pioneer Investments (now Amundi) in Dublin and then Citco Funds Services in both Dublin and Toronto.  In 2010, she returned to private practice in Hong Kong as an investment funds lawyer with Simmons & Simmons before moving to BlackRock as a regulatory/funds lawyer.  She subsequently gained further valuable experience in Hong Kong as both in-house legal counsel and Manager-In-Charge for Compliance, AML and Risk for a private equity fund manager and then a global funds distributor.

At Vivien Teu Law Practice, Maureen advises on fund structuring, leads fund launches as fund formation counsel, drafts fund documentation, and negotiates agreements with investment managers, advisers, participating agents, fund administrators, transfer agents, directors, consultants, auditors, and other service providers.

She is also uniquely positioned to provide practical legal advice on regulatory obligations, particularly in the following areas:

  • Fund marketing and distribution restrictions;
  • SFC licensing, notification and filing requirements;
  • Data protection;
  • Anti-money laundering;
  • SFC manager-in-charge regime (plus EDSP);
  • Regulatory queries;
  • Disclosures of interests by substantial shareholders;
  • Short position reporting;
  • Dealings disclosures under Rule 22 of the Takeovers Code;
  • Large Open Position limits and reports;
  • Foreign ownership limits and sensitive industries limits.
  • Corporate governance;
  • Compliance policies and procedures; and
  • Regulatory risk management.

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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.

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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