New Members 2019

Corporate Full Members

• Advanced Industrial Research Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited
  
  AIR is a professional organization established for intelligent manufacturing and industrial upgrading in China, with research institutes, fund companies, investment banks and strategic advisors. We have top scientists from around the world, a financial team with a wealth of TMT experience, and legal counsel with a scientific background. We focus on the financing of scientists’ entrepreneurship projects. Apart from providing traditional investment banking services, we also assist industry in finding upstream and downstream M&A opportunities, as well as start-up financing. Our funds focus on manufacturing upgrading of high-tech high-quality projects, in the region mainly between China and Britain. We invest in supporting the Investment Banking Department to serve the project companies.
   
• Aeneas Group Limited
  
  Aeneas Group is a multi-disciplinary financial services institution with cross-border capabilities and technology driven growth initiatives, where focus is on healthcare and financial services related industries. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Aeneas Capital Limited, has been licensed by the SFC as a Type 9 Asset Manager since 2005, and has subsequently obtained licenses Type 1 and 4 to deal and advise in securities. Additionally, another U.S. incorporated subsidiary, Aeneas Capital LLC is a FINRA regulated broker/dealer. The group first leverages on the network and capabilities of its U.S. listed sister group company, Aptorum Group [Nasdaq: APM], to tap healthcare and technology expert networks and business opportunities.
   
• Asset Pro
  
  Asset Pro is a leading S2B technology platform streamlining the process of distributing overseas assets and services to financial institutions, family offices and wealth advisors for serving increasing Chinese customers’ demand. Asset Pro has built the largest overseas asset distribution network in China with over 1,550 wealth management institutions and more than 160 thousand registered wealth professionals. Asset Pro has established footprints in 33 cities across Greater China area.
   
• BlueTop Group
  
  BlueTop Group Ltd is a Hong Kong single family office which managed the wealth of the family with over 100 years of history. The group is engaged in world-class manufacturing/ marketing operations, international property developments, investments and education.
   
• BRIC Neutron Asset Management Limited
  
  BNAML was established by Somerley Limited (a local investment bank) but was demerged from it in 2013 as an independent asset management firm. The firm manages both hedge funds and real estate private equity funds. All investment decisions are based on the conclusion of fundamental analysis on target company's health and outlook as well as industry trend. Therefore, we are dedicated to building competent research capability to carry out our task. In recent years, we launched a TMT hedge fund and we built a team of research specializing in high tech industry. We are planning to expand the TMT team and hopefully search opportunities in private venture investments.
   
• C Ventures
  
  C Ventures is the first investment club curating a global cultural ecosystem targeting the Millennials and the Generation Z with a focus on disruptive business in technology, lifestyle and media.
   
• Cameron Pace Group China
  
  Cameron Pace Group China is the strategic investment arm of a top global visual technology company with over 250 world class visual products such as Avatar, Titanic, Terminator and etc..
   
• Centurium Capital Management (HK) Limited
  
  Founded by David Li in 2016, Centurium Capital is a leading private equity investment firm in China. Prior to founding Centurium Capital, David Li was the President of Asia Pacific and a member of the Global Executive Management Group of Warburg Pincus. Headquartered in Beijing, Centurium currently manages one dollar-denominated fund and two RMB-denominated funds targeting investment opportunities in Chinese consumer and healthcare companies.
   
• China Ping An Insurance Overseas (Holdings) Limited
  
  China Ping An Insurance Overseas (Holdings) Limited ("PAOH"), established in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China on October 24, 1996, is a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. ("Ping An Group"). We, together with our subsidiaries, operate the main overseas investment management business of Ping An Group. PAOH, as the Ping An Group’s professional overseas asset management platform, provides cross-border and global asset management investment and services to Ping An Group’s subsidiaries and its institutional and corporate clients. In cooperation with global asset management institutions, we also provide international investors with investment opportunities in China.
   
• China Resources Capital Management Limited
  
  CRCM is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd. (“CR Group” or “the Group”) focusing on alternative investment and asset management by setting up market driven PE/VC and industry specific funds with other CR Group affiliates.
   
• China V Fund
  
  In December 2015, V Fund was founded by five former senior bankers from Goldman Sachs. The management team has on average 17 years of investment-related experiences, proficient in both domestic and international capital market. With USD 1.3 Billion equity assets under management, V Fund focuses on TMT, Artificial Intelligence, , smart manufacturing and logistics, among other industries. Since incorporation, V Fund has invested in 22 companies, including globally largest lithium battery company –the CATL, first tier artificial intelligence unicorn – the Face++, Horizon Robotics and high definition map provider – the NavInfo. Vfund is awarded as one of top 10 fastest growing Private Equity in China in both 2017 and 2018 consecutively by China Ventures.
   
• Fresh Capital Partners GP Ltd.
  
  Fresh Capital is a growth fund focusing on consumer product and service companies. We focus on brand and invest in fast growth stage. Fresh Capital achieved outstanding historical return with successful investment experience and deep network in the consumer sector. Our industry focus includes home & family, food & beverage, children & maternity, education, body & wellness and consumer finance. Fresh Capital strives to become founders’ fund, providing comprehensive and thorough value-adding services for portfolio companies. Almost all previous invested entrepreneurs turned out to be anchor LP.
   
• FutureX Capital (Hong Kong) Limited
  
  FutureX Capital was established in early 2018. The founder of FutureX Capital, Zhang Qian, was ex-head and founder of private equity at China AMC HK; she is also a director of JS Cloud and Hujiang Education. Ms Zhang has over 12 years of primary and secondary market investment experience. She has a profound understanding of financial markets across regions, and is well connected to top TMT entrepreneurs, investors and capital market practitioners. The FutureX management team and investment team have accumulated years of experience in connecting startup companies with VC and PE investors. FutureX Capital’s Founding Partner, Mr Edward Huang, possesses around 15 years of investment banking and secondary market investment experience. Edward has a good track record of generating strong investment returns for investors. FutureX Capital’s Director, Mr Zhang Hanqin, was formerly working as investment banking professional at Deutsche Bank, with in-depth experience across the Hong Kong and US equity capital markets. FutureX Capital’s Investment Manager, Ms Tracy Lee, worked as an investment manager at JD finance’s crowdfunding business. She had broad exposure across a wide spectrum from research, product, to operation. Ms Zhang started investing in overseas-listed Chinese companies in 2007 and has built extensive industry connections. She has good contacts with hundreds of oversea-listed Chinese companies, which provide abundant project reserves. The management team led by Ms Zhang had successfully exited over 50 investments with average IRR over 40%.
   
• Gemini Investments (Holdings) Limited
  
  Gemini Investments is one of the investment arms of the Sino Ocean Group which has two insurance companies as its major shareholders (i.e. China Life Insurance and An Bang Insurance).
   
• Gransing Financial (HK) Holding Limited
   
• HKUST Technology Transfer Center
  
  The Technology Transfer Center (TTC) at HKUST serves as a bridge between HKUST research community and the business sector, identifying collaboration opportunities in the local, regional and international markets based on HKUST's research strengths. TTC monitors primary and emerging fields of research within HKUST for early recognition of commercialization potential; manages intellectual properties arising from HKUST research works; supports faculty and students in their endeavors to pursue university-industry collaboration, entrepreneurship and technology commercialization.
   
• Hopu (Hong Kong) Investment Consultancy Company Limited
  
  Founded by Chairman Fenglei FANG, HOPU is a leading China-focused private equity fund with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Since its inception in 2008, HOPU has managed over US$13 billion aggregated AUM. HOPU has strong relationships with renowned long-term investors globally, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, endowments, insurance companies and other reputable institutional investors in Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.
   
• Lenovo Group (China) Limited
  
  Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group (LCIG) is Lenovo’s global technology industrial fund. We aim to explore and accelerate startup companies utilizing Lenovo global team and resources and lay the ground for Lenovo’s smart Internet ecosystem. Our key investment fields include cloud computing and big data, AI and robotics, AR/VR, +Internet, and consumption upgrade. Our portfolio companies include subsidiaries of SHAREit, Online Biometric Authentication, Lenovo Smart Healthcare, Enterprise Cloud, Lenovo New Glass, Lenovo Connect, Lenovo Big Data and Lenovo Finance, and more than 100 promising invested companies such as Megvii (Face++), NIO, Cambricon, Tuhu, Mobike, iDreamSky, Watrix Technology.
   
• Lighthouse Capital
  
  Founded in Sep 2014, Lighthouse Capital has been providing private equity financing, M&A and strategic investment advisory in TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) industries. It mainly touches industries such as social entertainment, consumer Internet and industrial Internet. Lighthouse Capital has closed more than 60 private equity financing transactions with an overall transaction volume of over 5 billion USD.In Jan 2018, Lighthouse Capital was listed as one of the “Top 3 Equity Investment Bank in China” by China Bridge. In April 2018, Lighthouse Capital was listed as “China Top 4 Emerging Investment Bank” by ChinaVenture.
   
• Lone Star Asia-Pacific Acquisitions (Hong Kong) Ltd.
   
• Nightingale Partners
  
  Established as an open-ended investment vehicle with a flexible investment mandate, Nightingale invests in a wide range of industries. Taking minority stakes in businesses, we support quality management through financial and operating discipline, strategic thinking and investment. Our investments have traditionally been in established, privately owned companies that are identified to contain strong management, excellent growth prospects and the need for equity to expand their operations. Our private equity portfolio includes investments in engineering, services, manufacturing, energy and the athleisure apparel industries. We also allocate a portion of our portfolio to more aggressive early stage companies including investments in the B2B software, fin-tech, virtual reality, medical tech.
   
• One Belt One Road Securities and International Asset Management Limited
  
  One Belt One Road Securities and International Asset Management Limited ("OBOR") is an asset management firm registered with Hong Kong SFC and regulated under SFO for Type 1 (Dealing in Securities), Type 4 (Advising on Securities), and Type 9 (Asset Management) activities, exclusively focusing on early and growth stage investment opportunities in Greater China healthcare sector. OBOR serving as a platform connecting foreign investors to China investments, we are committed to matching investors and asset owners according to project specification. We service professional investors and offer them bespoke investment management solutions, from characterizing investment strategies, identifying investment opportunities, product structuring to negotiating with project partners, paving exit strategies, seeing each project from start to finish.
   
• ORI Capital Investment Advisory (Hong Kong) Limited
  
  ORI Healthcare Fund L.P. is a US$200 million venture capital fund focused on investing in innovative companies with disruptive technologies in the healthcare industry globally. The fund is founded by Ms. Simone Song, former investment banker and head of China Healthcare at Goldman Sachs. The Fund is supported by a network of most renowned scientists, practitioners and entrepreneurs.
   
• Prudential Corporation Asia
  
  Prudential plc and its affiliated companies constitute one of the world’s leading financial services groups, serving over 26 million customers, with £664 billion of assets under management (as at 30 June 2018). Prudential plc is incorporated in England and Wales and is listed on the stock exchanges in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York.
   
• SK Group Supex Council (IFST)
  
  SK Group Supex Council (IFST) is the strategic governing body (council) of mutifacted Investment platforms in Greater China /SEA, through fund vehicles as GP, pure LP as well as direct investments.
   
• Starquest Capital
  
  With direct investment and FOF investment channels, Starquest Capital, founded in 2017, is a market-oriented private equity institution focusing on the industry of New Economy. Aimed at becoming China’s most institutionalized investment fund with utmost internationalized professionalism and vision, Starquest Capital utilizes its strong roots in China to discover future unicorns through omni-directional layout of the industrial chain. In order to create values for every participant in the New Economy, Starquest Capital has established a “Five-Star” ecosystem around its core GPs, enterprises (entrepreneurs), LPs, service providers and regulatory institutions. With its partnership system, Starquest Capital has been able to fully integrate the resources of state-owned enterprises with it.
   
• Tencent Investment
   
• Tybourne Capital Management (HK) Limited
   
• WE Financial Holding Group
   
• ZB Capital Limited
  
   

Corporate Associate Members

• Apex Group Ltd
  
  The Apex Group, established in Bermuda in 2003, is now one of the world’s largest fund administrators. Apex has continually improved and evolved its product suite by surrounding core administrative services with additional products spanning the full value chain of a fund; from middle office and corporate services to custoday and depositary solutions. The globally distributed service model has rapidly expanded through a combination of organic growth and more recently bolstered by acquisition. Service is now delivered by over 2000 staff across 40+ offices. The Apex Group administers circa $560bn in assets, including the investments of some of the largest funds and institutional investors in the world.
   
• Brunswick Group Ltd
   
• Caceis Hong Kong Trust Company Limited
  
  CACEIS Hong Kong CACEIS is a solid business partner with an innovative service offer. Owned by Crédit Agricole S.A., CACEIS services institutional and corporate customers worldwide. We are France’s premier investor services provider and a leading global player. Through a network of offices across Europe, North America and Asia, CACEIS delivers high quality services covering depositary/trustee - custody, clearing and execution, fund administration, transfer agency, and corporate trust. Considerable expertise in Alternative Investment servicing gives CACEIS a ranking among the top 10 global service providers for these sophisticated funds. We also offer a range of specialist services including cross border fund distribution support, designed to assist clients in achieving their international business development goals.
   
• Cypress House Capital Limited
  
  Cypress House Capital Limited is a corporate finance advisory firm based in Hong Kong, providing one-stop tailored solutions to private and public enterprises.  Our leaders present about 20 years of equity capital market experience in Hong Kong connecting with international and particularly Chinese clientele. We are licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to carry out dealing in securities (type 1) and advising on corporate finance (type 6) regulated activities.
   
• Eaton Partners Advisors (HK) Limited
   
• Farseer Limited
  
  Farseer is an AI-powered smart investment analytics platform with cloud & API solutions around risk management (KYC & data driven asset price alert), investment research (post-MiFid II focus) & IR optimization, focus to empower a more efficient financial ecosystem. Our clients include security brokers, institutional investors, corporates, stock exchanges & financial bureau etc. across HK & China. Our proprietary cloud engine combines search, text analytics (Chinese NLP in particular), knowledge graphs & machine learning algorithm, to extract real time financial related alternative data from across millions of unstructured context, according to clients’ criteria & output/alerts format, with user-defined sentimental weightings, through 24/7 web & App access, to significantly reduce, digitize & automate risk management & research effort. Farseer’s business partners include Caixin & Tsinghua PBCSF etc. We are showcased at the recent Davos World Economic Forum, among the 1st cohort of the HK AI Lab (founded by Alibaba & Sensetime) & are among founding members of the Greater Bay Youth Entrepreneurship Association.
   
• Fonto Holdings Limited
  
  Fonto Holdings Limited is a Hong Kong-based company providing Capital market professional services, corporate financing, real estate investment and PropTech investment.
   
• The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
  
  HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 65 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
   
• J.P. Morgan Private Bank
   
• Mainstream Fund Services (HK) Limited
   
• Marbury Corporate and Advisory Services
  
  Marbury delivers independent and dynamic solutions to Asia-centric corporate and fund clients, providing accounting & finance services, compliance, business advisory & structuring services, and company secretarial & formation services. Our capabilities are firmly rooted in the legal and accounting expertise of the Marbury team that, we believe, defines our client partnership approach.
   
• Moore Stephens Transaction Services Limited
  
  Moore Stephens is a global accounting and advisory network, with offices and member firms in over 100 countries around the world. Backed by our international network, we provide clients with all solutions and expertise they require, wherever they wish to do business in. Our Transaction Services team is composed of professionals with practical and solid knowledge and experience. Whether your company is looking to raise development capital, make an acquisition, or undertaking a joint venture, we guide you to ensure a successful result. From financial due diligence, tax due diligence, and all other various services we offered, we work with you at every stage in the transaction to maximise the value of every business transaction you undertake. We also endeavour to perform valuations of high quality with supportable assumptions and rationales and encourage communication and interaction with clients and other parties such as auditors, lawyers, regulators and the HKEx in the pre-deal, on-going deal and post-deal stages. We are experienced in preparing valuations in relation to the accounting standards (IFRS 3 – Busines Combination, IFRS9 – Financial Instruments & Expected Credit Loss, IAS36 – Impairment Testing, etc.) and the listing rules.
   
• ONC Lawyers
  
  ONC Lawyers is a professional and dynamic legal practice based in Hong Kong. We have been growing continuously since our establishment in 1992, and have now become one of the largest local law firms with more than 150 members of legally-qualified and supporting staff. The major areas of practice of our lawyers include banking & finance, capital market, China practice, construction & arbitration, corporate & commercial, criminal litigation, employment, family & matrimonial, immigration, insolvency & restructuring, insurance & personal injury, intellectual property & technology, litigation & dispute resolution, notary public services, real estate, securities, futures & funds, shipping & logistics and wills & probate.
   
• Pacific Risk Limited
  
  Pacific Risk Limited is a consultancy firm that provides business intelligence services, such as due diligence and crisis management, to organisations regarding business issues across Asia. Corporates have sought business intelligence from Pacific Risk prior to committing to important business transactions, and also when difficult situations arise from unexpected circumstances such as hostile parties harming a business. Pacific Risk has provided these services to clients from both the public sector and private sectors.
   
• Slaughter and May
  
  Slaughter and May is regarded as one of the most prestigious law firms in the world. We advise on high-profile and groundbreaking international transactions and have an excellent and varied client list that includes leading corporations, financial institutions and governments. We have a diverse and extensive practice covering 24 practice areas and 18 industry sectors. We have offices in London, Brussels, Hong Kong and Beijing and work with market leading firms around the world.
   
• SPD Bank Hong Kong Branch
  
  Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co., Ltd (SPD Bank) was founded on August 28, 1992 with the approval ofthe PBoC and has been operating since January 9, 1993. It is a nationwide joint-stock commercial bank that became listed in 1999 on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (Stock Code:600000). Based in Shanghai, the Bank's current registered capital stands at RMB 29.352 billion. SPDB Hong Kong Branch was formally established on June 8, 2011. It is the first overseas branch of SPDB, the 8th Chinese bank with full banking license in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Branch provides clients with a full range of banking services, including deposits, loans, structured finance, trade finance, international settlement, global markets, custody & fund administration and private banking services. SPD Bank's custody business started in 2003 and is one of the first joint-stock commercial banks in China to obtain a full licensed custodian bank qualification which covers 20 different types of custody products including but not limit to public funds, private funds, private equity funds, pension funds and enterprise annuities etc. As of 31 December 2018, SPD Bank's total Asset Under Custody was over RMB 12 trillion, currently ranked 4th place in China.
   
• Sunwising Insurance Brokers (Hong Kong) Limited
  
  Sunwising Insurance specializes in providing insurance solutions for Private Equity investment, public listed companies, M&A transactions, and etc. in the Greater China market. We will also provide insurance due diligence services and risk management consulting services.
  
   

Overseas Full Members

• ALA & DIWAL Ventures Pte. Ltd.
  
  ALA & DIWAL Ventures Pte. Ltd. is established to manage funds as GP and LP. It focuses on various investment opportunities in sectors such as primary sector, real estate, healthcare and fintech ventures.
   
• AXA Venture Partners
  
  AXA Venture Partners (AVP) is a venture capital fund investing in high-growth, technologyenabled companies. AVP has built a unique investment platform specialized in tech investments with $600 million of assets under management through three pillars of investment expertise: Early Stage Fund, Growth Stage Fund and Fund of Funds. To date, AVP has invested in 40+ Early and Growth equity deals and 10+ Fund investments. AVP team operates globally backed by offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong. Beyond investments, AVP provides access to business development opportunities helping portfolio companies to scale globally and accelerate their growth.
   
• Chanceway Capital Holdings Limited
  
  Chanceway Capital is a professional fund management company specialized in capital planning and overseas investment. Since its initiation, Chanceway has established sound relationships with well-known financial institutions and law firms both domestically and across the border in the United States and in Europe. In March 2017, Chanceway hosted the 2017 Overseas Investment Forum in Shenzhen, Beijing, and Shanghai respectively, drawing support from thousands of high net worth individuals from finance and investment industries. Backed by professional knowledge and thorough studies of the global capital market, Chanceway places an emphasis on risk-return balance and endeavors to generate robust return for its investors.
   
• Jiangsu Golden Prosperity Investment Management Co., Ltd.
  
  Jiangsu Golden Prosperity Investment Management Co., Ltd. is an investment management platform jointly established by Jiangsu Fiscal Investment Co., Ltd. and CGP Investment. Jiangsu Fiscal Investment Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jiangsu Assets and Equity Exchange, a financial institution directly under the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance. CGP Investment is China's famous private equity FOF and famous government guide fund manager, which is now having over RMB 100 billion in terms of asset under management. It has invested into 150+ VCs and PEs, focusing on investment management of FOF and providing asset management and investment consultation services to governments, agency investors, and high net worth clients.
   
• Jubilee Capital Management Pte. Ltd.
   
• Simone Investment Managers Co., Ltd.