New Members 2020

Corporate Full Members

• Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund
  
  The Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund is a not-for-profit initiative of Alibaba Group that provides entrepreneurs and young people with investment capital and strategic guidance to help them better achieve their goals. We provide Hong Kong and Taiwan-based entrepreneurs with investment capital and strategic guidance to help them grow their businesses and penetrate global markets by utilizing Alibaba’s vast ecosystem.
   
• Cerberus Asia Pacific Advisors II Limited
  
  Founded in 1992, Cerberus is a trusted partner to many of the world’s most respected investors in credit, private equity, and real estate. For more than a quarter century, we have provided capital solutions and operating expertise to help companies and properties around the world improve performance and drive value creation. We believe strong risk-adjusted returns can be generated in any market environment with the right teams, strategies, and operating capabilities. During different market cycles, we leverage the flexibility and synergy across our integrated investment platforms, as well as our proprietary operating capabilities, to create an edge for our investors and business partners to succeed.
   
• Eurazeo
  
  Eurazeo Group is a leading global investment company, with a diversified portfolio of 17.7bn€ AUM, including nearly 11.6bn€ from third parties, invested in over 300 companies. Beginning with its historical French and European base, it has established footholds in Asia and America.
   
• IP Investment Management Ltd.
  
  IP Investment Management Ltd is a real estate private equity firm targeting mid-market (USD$7-25m) deals in developed markets (U.S., Europe, and Australia). Our typical strategies are in the value-add and opportunistic domains, respectively.
   
• Kenetic Capital
   
• Landmark Partners
  
  Landmark Partners is a global leader in secondaries with extensive experience in private equity, real estate and infrastructure. The firm was established in 1989, and over the past 30 years, Landmark has managed 31 partnerships. The Landmark team is comprised of over 130 professionals and support staff.
   
• Legend Capital
  
  Legend Capital is one of the leading venture capital institutions in China. As of December 31, 2018, Legend Capital totally managed seven USD funds (two were settled and five were under management), five RMB funds, two early-stage RMB funds (one of which was the sub-fund of Junruiqi, and was not listed separately in the list below.), two USD fund specialised in healthcare sector, two RMB fund specialised in healthcare sector, two RMB funds specialized in the culture and sports sector and one fund in the red-chip return concept.
   
• LKK Health Products Group Limited
  
  LKK Health Products Group is a major business owned by Lee Kum Kee, one of the oldest consumer brands in Greater China dated back to 1888. The Group has an active corporate strategic M&A program, an active VC arm, Happiness Capital, and a sizable property investment team. The Group employs approximately 5,000 people. Group CFO, John Ng, is in charge of corporate strategic M&A, and on the Investment Committees of the VC arm and the property investment arm.
   
• Mekong Capital Partners
  
  Mekong Capital is a Vietnam-focused Private Equity firm, specializing in consumer driven businesses. Mekong Capital’s investee companies are typically among the fastest growing and market leading companies in Vietnam’s consumer-driven sectors such as retail, restaurants, consumer products and education.
   
• Mithera Capital
  
  Mithera Capital delivers comprehensive solutions to middle-market companies seeking to access compelling value-enhancing opportunities in Asian markets. Our team of highly experienced professionals advises on a wide array of cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, financing, capital raising, and licensing. Our goal is to bridge the cultural, economic and regulatory divide between U.S. and Asian markets. We illuminate the avenues through which our clients can navigate the nuances of the region and thereby tap into a deep well of value drivers. We focus on early to late stage companies across four disruptive sub-verticals in the healthcare and technology sectors.
   
• Ocean Link
  
  Ocean Link is a private equity firm with a focus on China’s travel and leisure sectors. Ocean Link currently manages a USD fund and an RMB Fund. With teams in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong, Ocean Link invests across the value chain and sub-verticals of the travel and leisure sectors, including online & offline travel services, hotels and resorts, destination services and entertainment, sector-related technology and business solutions providers.
   
• Oceanpine Capital Limited
  
  Oceanpine Capital is an institutional quality growth equity investment company formed by seasoned entrepreneur and sophisticated investors. We are rooted in China with 20 years of in-depth industry operational and business building experience. Our profound industrial and business partners’ (CEO club) network not only enables us to originate true proprietary companies with visible customer and revenues, but also provides tremendous value-added services to our portfolio companies and therefore foster their further growth. We invest in DeepTech, innovative growth companies in both TMT and healthcare sectors that are the driving force of the future economy in the New Norm. We believe in long term compounding value investing and provide value-added services to our companies by offering strategic resource and operational support. Our deal types are early-growth and growth capital oriented, with us having a high operational focus and a dedicated portfolio management team.
   
• Sumitomo Mitsui Trust (Hong Kong) Limited
  
  Our company was founded in 1978 and we started Private Equity investment since 1999. Our major clients are Japanese institutional investors, such as financial company and pension funds. We have two offices, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Hong Kong Office is mainly in charge with GP agenda (DD, Monitoring etc.) and Tokyo office is mainly in charge with investor relationship. We manage 10 separately managed account and two FoFs through the investments to over 400 partnerships globally. AUM is nearly USD18B as of June 2020.
   
• VU Venture Partners
  
  VU Venture Partners is a venture capital fund platform focusing on Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Frontier, Healthcare, and PropTech investments. VU is led by two top performing General Partners with 35+ years of VC experience, leading some of the largest and best performing venture capital funds in the world, with over 4x+ net realized returns on $1.8B+ in capital. Our goal is to identify the highest-value investment opportunities and support continued growth through additional investments, ultimately leading to consistent superior returns and greater value for our investors and portfolio companies.
  
   

Corporate Associate Members

• AVISTA Valuation Advisory Limited
  
  AVISTA Group is a leading professional valuation and corporate advisory firm with a strong presence in the Asia-Pacific region and extensive experience in performing Valuation Advisory, Corporate Advisory, Risk Management Advisory and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Advisory for various purposes.
   
• Circle Investment Support Services (HK) Pte Ltd.
  
  We are a global fund administrator delivering tailor-made services to investment funds. Your true partner to progress. We have close to 20 years of experience in fund administration, fund set-up and fund structuring. We offer services from the world’s major financial jurisdictions to a wide range of investment funds, special purpose vehicles, companies and foundations. Our offices are located in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Slovakia, the United States, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and Curaçao. This global footprint allows us to take advantage of different time zones and equally to tap into local knowledge. We offer a full range of fund administration, middle office, investor relation, reporting, corporate and legal services to hedge funds, fund of funds, real estate funds, private equity funds and mutual funds. For ancillary services, we work in close cooperation with banks, brokers, auditors, notaries, tax and legal experts. We understand the needs of our clients - asset managers, banks and family offices, based in Europe, North and South America and Asia, with funds based in onshore and offshore jurisdictions. In response, we offer to our clients a one-stop shop solution, helping them to focus solely on growing their businesses and achieving their strategic goals. Reliable, professional, personalized service is at the heart of what we do!
   
• Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong and Macao
   
• Dechert
  
  With some 200 financial services lawyers in 15 offices throughout the world, Dechert was the first and is the leading law firm with a funds practice in all key European fund domiciles, including the UK, Ireland, Luxembourg, Germany and France, as well as the U.S., the Middle East and Asia. The firm is consistently recognized as a top law firm for investment funds by a number of publications in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East, including Chambers, The Legal 500 and Best Lawyers.
   
• Delphos International LTD.
  
  Delphos International is a 30+ year old independent financial advisory firm, specializing in structuring and capital raising. We offer access to long-term, competitively priced capital in emerging markets.
   
• Finsbury Asia Limited
  
  Finsbury is a global leader in strategic communications and a trusted adviser to many of the world’s most successful companies. The company has managed some of the most complex, high-profile communications challenges and crises of the last three decades, including some of the largest international M&A transactions, IPOs and capital raisings, proxy fights, corporate restructurings, and public affairs policy campaigns, as well as major litigation and government investigations. With offices in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Finsbury provides expert counsel and support to clients around the world on interactions with the media, financial markets, employees, customers, governments, and other vital stakeholders.
   
• Forge Global, Inc.
  
  Founded as "Equidate" by Y Combinator entrepreneurs with first-hand experience in private market inefficiencies, Forge operates a platform facilitating the purchase and sale of interests in privately held, late-stage technology companies. We operate across the spectrum, providing liquidity on the sell-side to shareholders ranging from employees to early VC firms, and providing access on the buyside to investors ranging from high net worth individuals to institutional asset managers. Best-in-class access and execution has enabled us to become a dominant, global player in the pre-IPO space, having completed $1.7B in transaction volume as of the end of 2018.
   
• Gallant
  
  Gallant was established in 1977 and is one of the largest and most well-known independent local firms in Hong Kong with over 40 solicitors. We offer comprehensive legal services to individuals and corporate clients alike, covering various aspects of commercial, corporate and property related activities both contentious and non-contentious, ranging from banking finance, joint venture to project finance, mergers and acquisitions to listing of red chip companies and H shares in Hong Kong. Our services are delivered throughout our office in Hong Kong and the Guangzhou and Shanghai representative offices in China.
   
• Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners
  
  Our associate office in Hong Kong represents our commitment to assist our clients on a global level, wherever they need us. Established in 2014, the office is our hub for Asian business and it ensures a constant presence and ready assistance to Italian companies who require support for operations in China and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Leveraging our strong global reach, our Hong Kong associate office also advises international, local and China-based enterprises on their international business law matters and outbound investment issues as they seek opportunities outside the region. Efficiency is a primary concern for our clients. That is why we focus on providing them with a tailor-made team that is the best combination of quality and cost-effectiveness.
  
   

Overseas Full Members

• Creative Ventures
  
  Creative Ventures is a systematic DeepTech venture capital firm that delivers consistent and repeatable return. The fund invests in non-internet sectors driven by global secular trends including labor shortages, aging populations and climate change.
   
• Gaja Capital
  
  Founded in 2004, Gaja Capital is one of India’s premier mid-market focused private equity firms, with an emphasis on control buyouts. The company is led by Gopal Jain, Ranjit Shah and Imran Jafar, who have been together since the Firm’s inception. Gaja has invested consistently across themes in education, financial services & consumer, with a key focus on driving scale and transformation in its portfolio companies. Gaja’s team combines investing expertise with operating capability to add value in an environment where capital alone is no longer a differentiating factor. Gaja’s active engagement with its portfolio is a fundamental driver of its successful track record. Gaja has executed 20+ investments and delivered successful exits via IPOs, trade and financial sales.
   
• Nelscope Investments Limited
  
  The firm advises corporates in various Asian countries to raise funds from banks, financial institutions, PE, VC, etc..
   
• Neventa Capital SA
  
  Neventa Capital is a Growth Equity Firm that invests in global digital technology SMEs with established revenue streams, strong management teams, proven technologies, established products & services and high growth potential. Product categories like Fintech, AI & ML, Industry 4.0 & IoT, Digital Marketplaces, Cyber-Security and Software/SaaS - those that facilitate digitalisation and digital transformation.
   
• Realia Capital Group
  
  Realia Capital Group is a multi-family office specialized in direct investments including real estate and corporate investments (VC, PE). We provide investment advisory and investment management services to corporate and high net worth individual clients. We structure and execute a wide range of investment strategies across various asset classes and industries. We provide our clients with a possibly to participate in the most attractive investment projects from property developments to investments into high-growth companies across various sectors.
   
• TruVenturo
  
  Founded in 2008 by Nils Regge, Germany based family office TruVenturo is one of Europe’s leading company builders. TruVenturo follows a hands-on entrepreneurial approach by founding selected business models with a strong value proposition. In 2017, Nils Regge also co-founded Apollo Health Ventures to focus on the emerging opportunity of “longevity”, i.e. investing in ventures which are targeting the molecular hallmarks of aging to prevent age related diseases.
  
   

Overseas Associate Members

• Pendulom Capital Ltd.
  
  We are investor-turned founders. A group of skilled investors specialised in managing investment portfolios and asset management decided to come together and make complex investment vehicles more accessible for the greater public. After investing in the Derivatives Market with fruitful results, we are passionate to share our insights and experience in a sophisticated platform.

• Xen Technologies Pte. Ltd.
  
  Xen is a next-generation investment platform offering access to exclusive opportunities in alternatives for a new community of investors who value accessibility, liquidity and transparency. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore, Xen’s visionary team of former investment bankers, traders and fintech veterans, are creating a smarter way to build wealth.