New Members 2018

Corporate Full Members

• Altor Equity Partners
  
  Altor is a family of private equity funds focused on investing in and developing medium sized companies with a Nordic origin. Leading international institutional investors have committed a total of EUR 5.8 billion to the four Altor funds.
   
• Ayres Capital Management
  
  Ayres Capital Management is an investment platform offering family offices and High Net Worth Individuals the opportunity to invest in alternative assets. Ayres Capital Management offers on its platform a hedge fund, managed by its in-house seasoned managers, as well as private investment and co-investment opportunities available on a deal by deal basis.
   
• Cachet Group
  
  Cachet Group was established in 2014, headquartered in Hong Kong, hold HKSI 1, 4 & 9 licenses. We started as a multi family offices for Ultra High Net Worth families in greater China region and expanded to become a comprehensive asset management firm which offers proprietary hedge funds, private equities and direct investment opportunities for investors .We is currently managing 3 hedge funds. CEO & Senior Managements hold average around 15+ years experiences in banking and finance filed from international banks such as Citi Bank, Morgan Stanley, UBS etc. with solid track record.
   
• C-Bridge Capital
  
  C-Bridge Capital is a healthcare dedicated private equity firm, focused on growth and late stage investment opportunities with US$800 million of Assets Under Management. C-Bridge Capital’s current portfolio includes China’s leading players in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics and healthcare services. C-Bridge Capital is committed to support commercialization of cutting edge technologies and companies that fulfil unmet medical needs, thus continuously improving the standard and quality of care for patients.
   
• Cenova Management Advisors Limited
  
  Cenova is a Shanghai headquartered Chinese healthcare fund investing in early and growth stage companies. It has 4 funds under management with a combined AUM of over $600 million US dollars.
   
• China Great Bay Area Fund Management Co., Limited
  
  China Great Bay Area Fund Management Co., Limited (former named "China Merchants Capital Management (International) Co., Ltd.") is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Group which is engaged in alternative investment and asset management. In 2012, in order to promote the development of the Group's integration of industry and finance as well as asset management business, China Merchants Group has integrated its direct investment and the fund business, and established the Great Bay Area Fund Management.
   
• China Group International Investment Ltd
  
  China Group International applies a buy and build investment strategy. We focus on consumer businesses in Health and Beauty industry as well as related tech and services. We invest in Asia, US and Europe with a view on Chinese consumers.
   
• CITIC Capital Holdings Limited
  
  Founded in 2002, CITIC Capital Holdings Limited is an alternative investment management and advisory company. The firm manages over USD22 billion of capital across 100 funds and investment products through its multiple asset class platform covering private equity, real estate, structured investment & finance, and asset management. CITIC Capital has over 130 portfolio companies that span 11 sectors and employ over 820,000 people around the world.
   
• CLP Holdings
   
• Eli Global
  
  Headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, USA, Eli Global is a private investment firm wholly owned by its founder and employees. With their buy-grow-and-hold philosophy Eli Global does not work within a 3 - 5 year investment horizon, but invests for the long haul, providing companies with the resources and expertise they need to grow, entrepreneurs retain their brand equity. We are sector agnostic owner managers who partner with successful management teams across a wide variety of different jurisdictions, industries and business models.  Eli Global continues to diversify in industries such as life insurance, financial services, health care services, physician practices, information technology, market research, publishing, business information, and more.
   
• EmergeVest Limited
  
  EmergeVest is an entrepreneurial private investment firm, seeking to grow leading businesses in targeted industry sectors on a global basis. EmergeVest currently invests in diversified business services, including logistics, supply chain and technology.
   
• Guosen Securities (HK) Financial Holdings Company Limited
  
  Guosen Securities (HK) Asset Management Company Limited (“GSAM”),the investment arm of Guosen Securities (HK) Financial Holdings Company Limited, is licensed to issue and manage public funds and private funds, including stock fund, bond funds, hedge funds, private equity funds and so on, reaching approximately AUM of 1.5 billion USD. Currently, GSAM plans to set up a UCIs Part II Fund in Luxembourg, namely Guosen Global Investment Fund. This fund is a legal entity incorporated as an umbrella fund comprised of separate sub-funds. The first sub-fund shall primarily invest in non-listed equity issued by companies established in Europe and North America having actual or potential exposure to China, mostly new technology, new media and new material industry.
   
• Honeywell Ventures
  
  Honeywell Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm focused on making Series A/B investments, alongside co--investors, in companies developing technologies, products, and solutions aligned with Honeywell's core end markets.
   
• Hosen Capital (Hong Kong) Limited
  
  Hosen Capital maintains a strong focus on the “Food Space”, investing across critical components along the food value chain and consumer well-being. Hosen Capital invests in both domestic and foreign companies with China exposure through consolidation and growth strategies.
   
• idi Emerging Markets Partners
  
  Headquarted in Luxembourg with offices in Paris and Hong Kong, we invest our clients funds in growth-capital opportunities in established emerging markets with a selective picking approach. We advise $US400m of assets on behalf of corporates, banks, family offices and high net worth individuals.
   
• Infinity Equity Management Co Ltd
  
  Founded in 1993 and backed by prominent partners and investors such as the China Development Bank and Clal Industries, Infinity Group has a solid reputation as a leading platform for fund management with an impressive track record for sharing the added value of know-how and technology cooperation which has resulted in notable exits from companies such as Galileo, Saifun, Shopping.com, ShellCase, Scitex Vision, Digital China and Oberon Media, among others. Infinity Group has also made successful investments in tens of leading Chinese companies including WLCSP, I-China Security, United Water, Ya’an technology, Anxin Security, THT, China Medicine, Jiupai Pharmaceutical, Xinbai Pharmaceutical, Harbin 1st Tool and Ningbo Eston Technology.
   
• JD Capital Co., Ltd.
  
  JD Capital is one of the leading private equity firms in China with over $5 billion of assets under management. Founded in 2007, JD Capital has invested over 300 growth opportunities in Chinese mid-market, and has created long-term value to investors, businesses and communities in which we work. With the first proprietary deal sourcing network across China, JD Capital has successfully implemented buy and build strategy by partnering with industry leaders and applying our insights of Chinese market.
   
• Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets
  
  MIRA is one of the largest and most experienced private infrastructure asset managers globally. Over the last 23 years, MIRA has raised approximately $80 billion of equity through private and publicly traded vehicles for investment in infrastructure and similar assets. MIRA manages approximately $A154 billion ($US118 billion)* of assets via approximately 50 public and private funds, co-investments, partnerships and separately managed accounts. MIRA has an extensive network of experienced infrastructure professionals with longstanding relationships in the infrastructure sector. MIRA’s global team of approximately 450 experienced professionals is located in 19 countries as at 31 March 2017, with principal offices in London, Sydney, New York, Seoul and Hong Kong. This regional and local network provides MIRA with access to key stakeholders, including Governments, regulators, organized labor and the communities where its investments operate. The team is often allocated across the various infrastructure sub-sectors in each local jurisdiction where it invests. MIRA believes this style of regional, dedicated active management is critical to managing risk, creating value and achieving optimal returns.
   
• MetLife Investments Asia Limited
   
• NIO Capital
  
  NIO Capital is a fund manager investing in themes reshaping the automotive, new energy and technology sectors. Established in 2016 and sponsored by NIO, NIO Capital leverages its unique access to global & Chinese innovation, comprehensive market understanding and flourishing ecosystem to create category-leading companies in fields such as electric vehicles, autonomous driving, shared mobility, new energy network, new materials and more.
   
• Oneday Capital Limited
  
  OneDay Capital Limited (ODC) was founded by financial veterans. Replying on China’s highly developing economy, targeting Chinese financial industry and real business, ODC serves as an innovative capital operating platform offering tailor-made financial solutions to corporations and institutions with the mode integrating finance with capital. ODC is equipped with a partner team with more than 42 years’ experience in personal finance, corporate finance, RMB and foreign exchange, private banking and 35 years’ experience in audit & financial advisory, restructuring & insolvency, M&A as well as IPO Management. Moreover, it has substantial experience in managing 20-year sovereign wealth funds and 15-year private equity funds, as well as investing in 14 key industries around the world.
   
• Pacific Century Group
  
  Pacific Century Group (PCG) is an Asia-based private investment group established in 1993 with interests across three core business pillars - Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Financial Services and Property. PCG has demonstrated a strong track record of successful investing, and has created a long-term sustainable network in Asia and across its core business pillars.
   
• Ping An Global Voyager Fund
  
  Formed by Ping An Group, Ping An Global Voyager Fund specializes in growth stage investments in companies in FinTech, HealthTech and related sectors. The fund's investment areas include core banking, insurance and healthcare technologies, innovative digital business models, unique customer experiences, and AI. As a result of its tight affiliation with Ping An, the Global Voyager Fund is uniquely positioned to deliver scale access to the China market for portfolio companies.
   
• Qiming Venture Partners
  
  Qiming strives to be the investor of choice for top entrepreneurs in China. Since our debut, we have backed over 210 young, fast-growing and innovative companies across China in the internet and consumer ("Intersumer"), healthcare, information technology and clean technology sectors. Over 30 of them are already listed on NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEx, Gretai Securities Market, Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Shenzhen Stock Exchange or achieved exit through M&A. Many of our portfolio companies are today’s most influential brands in their respective sectors, including Xiaomi, Dianping, iTutorGroup, Mogujie, Meitu (HK 01357), Bilibili, Tigermed (SZ 300347), Gan & Lee, Zai Lab, Hexing (SH 603556), CSD (SH 603903), Tellgen (SZ 300642), AmoyDx (SZ 300685), HyperStrong, We Doctor Group, Face++ & UBTech.
   
• Righteous Capital Limited
   
• Sectoral Asset Management Limited
  
  Sectoral Asset Management (Sectoral) is an investment boutique exclusively focused on the global healthcare sector. The company manages public and private equity healthcare strategies for investors around the world. Our clients include leading insurance companies, private banks and family offices. In addition, we have long-standing sub-advisory relationships with institutional investors in Europe, North America and Asia. The company has one of the world’s longest track records in managing biotech equities.
   
• Serendipity Capital (International) Company Limited
  
  Serendipity Capital is a wholly-owned private equity fund established by Modern Land (China) Co. Limited (Hong Kong Stock Code: 1107) in 2016, which focuses in the investment of senior real estates and health care real estates. Since its establishment, the fund has been managing USD assets in total amount of approximately USD 350,000,000, providing Modern Land (China) Co. and other investors with solutions such as global asset allocation, value appreciation, profit creation and risk mitigation. Leveraged on the professional capabilities of Modern Land (China) Co. Limited in primary land preparation and secondary land development, the fund has been able to achieve an optimal allocation of resources, and build up a brand name in asset management.
   
• Superactive Financial Group Co. Ltd.
  
  We are a Hong Kong SFC Licensed Corporation with licenses on: advising on securities (type 4), advising on futures contracts (type 5), advising on corporate finance (type 6) and asset management (type 9). We provide full range of services from portfolio and fund management, investment advisory, M&A to corporate finance structuring. Our primary focus is on real estate, distressed assets, education and pre-IPO investments. We establish an investment platform for linking up overseas investors, Chinese based asset management houses and corporate clients with their preferences for investment and corporate development.
   
• VMI Capital Group
  
  VMI Capital Group (VMI) was established in 2010 to serve and support the rapid growth in Greater China.  Founded by prestigious investment bankers, public companies, and largest asset managers, we have successfully developed into a leading interregional diversified financial institution that combines securities underwriting, sales and trading, private placement advisory, investment management and other financial services. VMI currently has a team of close to 30 professionals, based out of offices in Hong Kong, Xiamen, Shenzhen, and Taipei.
  
   

Corporate Associate Members

• The Boar's Club
  
  The Boars Club is an invitation-only global investment club wherein principals of Family Offices can integrate with select Private Markets firms. The Club provides a discreet and regulated forum for the execution of Alternative Investments and delivers connectivity to strategic capital.
   
• Cordium Asia Limited
  
  Cordium helps financial services firms around the world transform governance, risk and compliance (GRC) challenges into opportunities – to enhance regulatory relationships, improve processes, manage risk and grow the business. The deep expertise of our teams enables Cordium to support clients across the entire GRC lifecycle – from start-up through maturity – with a wide range of consulting services and technology solutions. Our specialists understand the challenges financial services firms face because they have served as compliance officers, lawyers, regulators, and in other roles. This means Cordium’s specialists are able to truly partner with firms, bringing in the right expertise – from regulatory change management to tax services, regulatory hosting to employee filing software support.
   
• CSC
  
  CSC's Global Financial Management provides a comprehensive range of services, including outsourced fund administration, capital markets services, SPV management and administrative services, and agency services. We provide independent and conflict-free corporate trust services through our wholly owned subsidiary, Delaware Trust Company. Through our expertise and personal approach, we’re able to offer customized services from pre-closing through to completion of a transaction, and have decades of experience in private equity, real estate, structured finance, restructuring, and across a full range of asset classes.
   
• DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd
  
  DBS Bank is a multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Marina Bay, Singapore. The company was known as The Development Bank of Singapore Limited, before the present name was adopted in July 2003 to reflect its changing role as a regional bank. The bank was set up by the Government of Singapore in July 1968 to take over the industrial financing activities from the Economic Development Board. Today, its branches numbering more than 100 can be found island-wide. DBS Bank is the largest bank in South East Asia by assets and among the larger banks in Asia, with total assets of S$482 billion as at 31 Dec 2016. It has market-dominant positions in consumer banking, treasury and markets, asset management, securities brokerage, equity and debt fund-raising in Singapore.
   
• Elvinger Hoss Prussen
   
• Envinary Group
  
  We provide financial advisory services (mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, asset management, financial restructuring, valuation, strategic consulting, and asset protection) to individuals, corporations, institutions, and governments. We invest in the promising projects and opportunities, and develop new solutions and products to fill the gaps in the market.
   
• Invest Hong Kong
   
• Jefferies Hong Kong Ltd
  
  Jefferies offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.
   
• McKinsey & Company
  
  McKinsey & Company is a global management-consulting firm, deeply committed to helping institutions in the private, public, and social sectors achieve lasting success. In Greater China, we have more than 900 Partners, consultants, and professional support staff located across five locations. McKinsey’s Private Equity and Principal Investors Practice is a trusted management-consulting partner to the private equity industry and its stakeholders. McKinsey’s work spans the full investment cycle, including pre-financing, sourcing strategies, commercial due diligence, post-investment performance transformation, portfolio review, and buyout/exit strategy.
   
• Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
  
  Orrick is an international law firm with a particular focus on serving clients in the finance, energy and infrastructure, and technology sectors. Founded more than 150 years ago in San Francisco, Orrick is composed of 1,100 lawyers in offices across Asia, Europe, the U.S. and Africa. Financial Times selected Orrick as the most innovative law firm in North America for the second time in a row in 2017. Operating as a fully integrated "one China office" with lawyers based in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Orrick’s China team serves as the regional hub for the firm’s Asia practices, and is well-placed to assist foreign companies seeking investment opportunities in China, and Chinese companies and state-owned enterprises pursuing outbound investments around the world.
   
• Sino Fund Services Limited
  
  The Sino Group is a boutique provider of Fund, Trust and Corporate Services located in Hong Kong and China. Our expertise and focus is the Greater China market but our strong relationships in the other major financial centres of Asia enable us to provide a seamless service to clients operating throughout the region. We are an independent professional team of practitioners with over 30 years of experience in our industry. We have been advising clients on China business as early as 1990. Sino Fund Services Limited is a member of The Sino Group which is dedicated to providing full fund administration services to support alternative funds including private equity, venture capital, property and real estate funds, hedge funds, fund of funds, discretionary and private funds in Asia.
   
• SMBC Nikko Securities (Hong Kong) Ltd
  
  SMBC Nikko Securities, found in 1918 first under the name of Kawashimaya Shoten, is a leading Japanese securities firm. It is, together with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (“ SMBC”), the two core members of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (”SMFG”) ,  the 2nd largest financial group in Japan (by market capitalization). SMBC Nikko has overseas offices in New York, London, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Jakarta and Sydney.   It has over 10,800 employees globally and has 149 branches in Japan. In Japan, SMBC Nikko provides full investment banking services, in Mergers and Acquisition Advisory, Equity and Debt Capital Markets and Structured Finance. SMBC Nikko Hong Kong provides services in Cross-border Mergers and Acquisition Advisory, Debt Capital Market, Sales and Trading in Japanese Equities and Fixed Income Securities. The Merger and Acquisition Department of SMBC Nikko Hong Kong is serving as the-hub for Asia-Pacific region of our global network. Our operation focuses on cross-border M&A transactions in Greater China region, covering Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, as well as Philippines. We work closely with our bankers in SMBC Nikko Japan and SMBC Hong Kong to provide professional advice to our Japanese and other clients on either side of M&A transactions.
   
• State Street Fund Services (Hong Kong) Limited
   
• Thomson Reuters
  
  Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of news and information for professional markets. Our customers rely on us to deliver the intelligence, technology and expertise they need to find trusted answers. The business has operated in more than 100 countries for more than 100 years. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges.
   
• Vivien Teu & Co LLP
  
  At Vivien Teu & Co LLP, we are dedicated to providing legal services for clients at the highest standards to meet their needs in today’s complex and dynamic business and regulatory environment. Established with the philosophy of a boutique law firm focusing on the areas of corporate, securities, asset management and financial services, our lawyers are experienced in advertising international and local corporates, including large global institutions, listed entities, industry conglomerates, as well as international, Hong Kong and China banks, securities, asset management and private equity firms.
  
   

Overseas Full Members

• BLG Capital Advisors Asia Pte. Ltd.
  
  BLG Capital Advisors Asia, manages the interests of a single US family, with a defined remit upon the Asia region.  The preference is for private-equity style investments, either indirect or direct.  We are sector agnostic despite a strong operational exposure to the healthcare sector, rather preferring to focus on the trends we are observing across Asia, particularly those capturing the considerable growth in consumption. The family places great emphasis on strong relationships and exchange of ideas, which underlies our selection process when making investment decisions.   It has been this methodology that has driven the growth of our US Private Equity portfolio, resulting in lasting engagements with core managers with whom we have grown alongside.   The Asia team has been based in Singapore since 2013, however our focus has become Northern Asia which brings us to Hong Kong on a regular basis.
   
• Entrepreneur Metropolitan Kuala Lumpur Cooperative
  
  We are a Financial Institution cooperative approved by Cooperative Commission of Malaysia with the objective of maximising our shareholders and investors returns. Our founding mission is to address the lack of capital for entrepreneur’s business expansion and we assist by pooling the capital from our members, organise it and manage it by investing into projects that will directly benefits our members through high return and in turn growing entrepreneurship. CoMetroKL invest in local private equity businesses, purchase-resell-manage properties, agriculture, e-commerce and financing & improving human capital. CoMetroKL strive to provide entrepreneur alike with meaningful start-up capital and capital infusion that will generate financial returns on members investments. This will increase the viability and sustainability of businesses and the security of a healthy entrepreneurial community.
   
• Red Swallow Investments LLC
  
  Red Swallow Investments, LLC, a Delaware entity, is in the process of establishing its first US $300 million PE fund, focusing on connected and intelligent vehicle sector. Scott J. McCormick is Red Swallow Investments Chairman / Managing Partner and President of CVTA (Connected Vehicle Trade Association). CVTA is one of the most influential global organizations of its kind, with members from 14 countries including Intel. Scott is also a Congress appointed advisor to US Secretary of transportation in 2012, 2014, and 2016, each term 2 years.  He’s regarded as a global expert on connected and intelligent /autonomous vehicle and has provided investment advice to Carlyle, KKR, LionTree, and Chinese Sovereign Fund etc.
   
• Wharton Alumni True Impact Fund (WHAT IF)
  
  The purpose and character of the business of the Company is to act as a management consultant to companies and to invest in companies and to raise and manage investment funds that meet the investment and social impact criteria of the Members and the Investment Committee.
  
   

Overseas Associate Members

• Denning & Company
  
  Denning & Company was founded in 2001 in San Francisco. With over 70 years of combined industry experience, the Denning and Company team has raised capital in excess of $12 billion, with over a range of 30 funds representing different disciplines from early stage venture to Distressed. The general partners were based in the U.S., Japan/Asia, UK/Europe, Russia, and Israel and the funds were raised from a limited partner base similarly diversified. Over 55% of the funds raised were oversubscribed and 40% were at or above target. Most recently, we closed a $300 million cybersecurity fund, and an $420 million insurance linked private credit fund that was not volatile, had low correlation, and low teens IRR.
   
• Guernsey Finance
   

  Guernsey is the promotional agency for Guernsey’s financial services industry. Our industry reaches across investment funds, trust and companies, banking, insurance, investment management and pensions. Guernsey has established a reputation as a leading international financial centre with more than 50 years’ experience providing trust and corporate services to our global client base at the very highest standards.
   
  Guernsey is home to more than 1000 funds with a total value of almost £300 billion pounds. Over £100 billion of those funds are Private Equity, a major milestone Guernsey surpassed last year. There are over 850 captive insurance structures licensed in Guernsey, providing a key risk management tool for businesses around the globe.
   
  Guernsey signed up to FATCA and the implementation was seamless. Guernsey is an early adopter of CRS, which means Guernsey service providers will automatically share information with other global tax authorities. Guernsey has over 60 Tax Information Exchange Agreements. Guernsey is compliant or largely compliant with 48 of the 49 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations, the highest of any jurisdiction assessed which included the UK, the US and Luxembourg. Guernsey’s fiduciaries are regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and we were one of the first jurisdictions to do so and not all of them do today.
   
  As a crown dependency, Guernsey is not part of the U.K., neither is it part of the EU. We have our own individual agreements separately negotiated with EU countries and therefore our access to European capital markets will remain the same, whatever the outcome of Brexit. We are a centre of stability, certainty and expertise to provide a variety of unique business opportunities and help ensure successful intergenerational wealth planning, efficient corporate solutions and the highest possible standards of anti-money laundering regulations.

• Whyte & Co.
  
  As a trusted, independent source of knowledge and expertise, Whyte & Co. is frequently called upon to play a variety of special roles, in many cases where no immediate transaction is apparent. Our services span a wide breadth of situations. Whyte & Co. is able to provide services from examining strategic and financing alternatives to providing ongoing support and advice to family-owned businesses and private partnerships. With increased pressure on companies to seek independent advice, Whyte & Co. is actively involved in advising special committees, shareholders and other constituents, including the members of the board. Whyte & Co.’s Private Placement business serves the needs of the firm’s clients by originating, structuring or placing equity and debt instruments with private investor groups.