New Members 2020-2021

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.
   
• Chinachem Agencies Limited
  
  The Chinachem Group maintains a balanced investment portfolio investing in listed equity, bonds, private equity funds and hedge funds. For the PE fund portfolio, the Group has invested across different strategies, sectors and region with different GPs such as Blackstone, Brookfield, Silver Lake, Warburg Pincus, TPG, Apollo, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, DST, Coatue Management, MGM Capital etc.
   
• CR-CP Life Science Management Limited
  
  CR-CP Life Science Fund is a private equity fund jointly established by China Resources Group and Charoen Pokphand Group, focusing on early-/growth-stage companies in the life science universe. The two founding groups contributed US$150 million out of the total fund size of US$300 million.
   
• Epson Hong Kong Limited
   
• 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.
   
• GCCVest
  
  We are a cross-border hybrid Growth/VC fund with LPs from Middle East to invest in technology in China. Our fund invests in emerging connectivity and promotes value creation between China and the Middle East.
   
• IMS Digital Ventures
  
  IMS Digital Ventures is the venture building arm of IMS, Hong Kong’s leading Digital Transformation Agency with over 300 employees in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Singapore. At IMS Digital Ventures, we build revolutionary new ventures with Asia's most influential corporations and disruptive entrepreneurs.
   
• 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.
   
• Moonfare Asia Limited
  
  Moonfare is a technology-enabled platform allowing individuals and their advisors to invest in top-tier private equity funds. Through our platform, our investors have deployed US$ 500 mil into 19 funds in the past 2 years.
   
• NL Capital Advisers, Ltd
  
  NL Capital Advisers, an investment and advisory firm headquartered in Hong Kong with operations in the United States, is a global investment firm with strong conviction in the power of innovation coupled with the dynamic intersection of the US, China, and Korea with equal and balanced interest in every country.
   
• 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.
   
• S28 Capital
  
  Spectrum 28 Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, with $170 million under management. The firm’s core specialization is investing in and building companies around Enterprise SaaS and Cloud Infrastructure. The Firm is run by a team of investors, entrepreneurs and startup operators who collectively have more than 40 years operating in the startup world. The team has helped build companies such as PagerDuty (NYSE: PD) and Playdom (acquired by Disney), and also invested in companies such as Zoom (NASDAQ: ZM), Palantir, PlanGrid, Coupang, and Noom.
   
• SDCL
  
  SDCL Group Sustainable Development Capital LLP Specialized in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment and Advisory Investing to make a positive impact SDCL is a specialist investment and advisory firm established in 2007, with a proven track record of financing and developing clean energy, energy efficiency and decentralised energy infrastructure projects in the UK, Continental Europe, North America and Asia. SDCL was launched to facilitate investment into environmental infrastructure markets. It has always focused on investing in projects that are good for the environment, good for people and commercially sustainable. Indeed, it has always said that “if it is not commercial, it is not sustainable”. SDCL is headquartered in London and the group and its investment vehicles also operate worldwide from offices in New York, Dublin, Madrid, Hong Kong and Singapore. SDCL is authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority.
   
• Sterling Private Management Limited
   
• 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.
   
• Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC
  
  Vista Equity Partners is a U.S.-based investment firm with offices in Austin, Chicago, New York, Oakland, and San Francisco and more than $73 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2020. We focus exclusively on the large and growing enterprise software market across our private equity, permanent capital, credit and public equity investment strategies. We are a value-added investor, contributing professional expertise and multi-level support to help companies realize their full potential. Our sizable long-term capital base, experience in structuring technology-oriented transactions, and proven management techniques yield flexibility and opportunity for our companies. At Vista, our people enable our pursuit of excellence. We are technologists and engineers at our core, translating ideas into actions and embracing innovation. Our team’s extensive transaction, operating, and strategic expertise propels our companies forward and advances the global technology ecosystem.
   
• 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

• Allen & Overy
   
• Appleby
  
  Appleby is one of the world’s leading international law firms. Our global teams of legal specialists advise public and private companies, financial institutions and private individuals. We are a full service law firm providing comprehensive, expert advice and services across corporate, dispute resolution, property, regulatory and private client and trusts practice areas.
   
• 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.
   
• BMS Asia (Hong Kong) Ltd.
  
  BMS is a dynamic global broker that provides specialist insurance, reinsurance and capital markets advisory services. The company was established in 1980. Today, we place $2.6bn of premiums each year and employ more than 450 people worldwide. We are growing fast and have 20 offices around the world in key hubs including London, New York and Bermuda. In Asia, we have offices in Hong Kong and Singapore from where our Private Equity, M&A and Tax Team supports the Asian M&A community by placing specialised insurance solutions to cover transactional risks.
   
• Central Business Information Limited
  
  Incorporated in 1996, Central Business Information Limited (CBI) is a global business information company with operations in Hong Kong, China and 214 countries around the world. a full range of services including Due Diligence, Business Credit Report, Employment Screening, Asset Search, Business Verification and Site Investigation for different business sectors and industries. CBI offers due diligence services for corporate, private equity firms/ venture capital firms, IPO sponsors, law firms, consultancy firms and other professional service providers. CBI currently operates five established offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xi’an with over 300 staff members. CBI has built a strong client base - including the world's largest C.P.A. firms, law firms, investment institutions, commercial banks, listed companies and government authorities.
   
• 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.
   
• Equities First Holdings Hong Kong Limited
  
  Equities First Holdings (“EquitiesFirst”) is a global institutional investment company, wholly owned by American financier and entrepreneur Alexander Christy, Jr. The firm manages over USD1 billion of proprietary capital in a public equities portfolio. The firm’s core investment strategy is to manage a public equity portfolio. Its method of portfolio construction is based on equity backed financing. Scaled worldwide, EquitiesFirst has provided progressive capital to hundreds of corporations, investors, and other long-term shareholders. The firm was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, USA. EquitiesFirst maintains an international footprint of 12 offices, operating in all major financial 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.
   
• IHS Markit
  
  IHS Markit is a leading global provider of financial services technology, data and analytical services, supporting all participants in the capital-raising process, including sell-side professionals, finance officers at private and public companies, institutional investors and asset managers. The Private Markets division of IHS Markit serves over 700 LP & GP clients globally, and offers software & services around data collection, portfolio monitoring, valuations and investor reporting. IHS Markit solutions for private markets are the premier industry choice to address growing pressures for transparency and regulatory compliance.
   
• Innovative Directions Inc.
  
  We are a business turn-around and senior advisory firm focused on helping family offices and private equity funds regain profitability and attain exit for Asia based assets. We generally do 1-2 turn-arounds at a time and 3-4 board and operations advisory. We serve on multiple boards of directors and offer full-service business management, governance, human development.
   
• KOTRA
  
  KOTRA (Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency) is a Korean government organization established in 1962. We provide business matchmaking and consulting service for companies seeking to cooperate with Korean companies.
   
• PJT Partners (HK) Limited
  
  PJT Partners is a premier global advisory-focused investment bank. Our team of senior professionals delivers a wide array of strategic advisory, shareholder advisory, restructuring and special situations and private fund advisory and fundraising services to corporations, financial sponsors, institutional investors and governments around the world. We offer a unique portfolio of advisory services designed to help our clients achieve their strategic objectives. We also provide, through PJT Park Hill, private fund advisory and fundraising services for alternative investment managers, including private equity funds, real estate funds and hedge funds.
   
• Stephenson Harwood
  
  Stephenson Harwood is a law firm with over 1100 people worldwide, including more than 180 partners. Our people are committed to achieving the goals of our clients - listed and private companies, institutions and individuals. We assemble teams of bright thinkers to match our clients' needs and give the right advice from the right person at the right time. Dedicating the highest calibre of legal talent to overcome the most complex issues, we deliver pragmatic, expert advice that is set squarely in the real world. Our headquarters are in London, with nine offices across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In addition, we have forged close ties with other high quality law firms and an integrated local law capability in Singapore and the PRC. This diverse mix of expertise and culture results in a combination of deep local insight and the capability to provide a seamless international service.
   
• Stepworks Company Limited
  
  Stepworks is a global branding agency based in Hong Kong. We help businesses influence people’s perceptions with brand building. We have helped many PE and VC firms get an edge with more effective messages and design, audience-focused websites and other tools. Results include more favourable first impressions, clarity of purpose and difference, and ultimately better business.
   
• TMF Hong Kong Limited
  
  TMF Hong Kong Limited is a fund service group providing fund administration, investor KYC, trustee, management and company secretary services along with other specialised services.
  
   

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.
   
• Guangzhou Sino-israel Biotechnology Fund (GIBF)
  
  The Guangzhou Sino-Israel Biotech Investment Fund (GIBF) is established in March 2016, focusing on life science investment with initial size of 600 million RMB. The Guangzhou Elim Biotech Industry Venture Capital Management Company, controlled by a group of prominent Israel professionals, is the management company of the Fund. It has currently operational offices both in Guangzhou, China and Tele Aviv, Israel. This is the first ever and very bold approach taken by a major Chinese municipal government in many aspects to let a foreign group mainly manage this fund sponsored by governments. The purpose of GIBF is to bring world class Israel biotech into China to be commercialized and industrialized locally and build up a competitive and comprehensive life science industry in Guangzhou.
   
• 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.
   
• 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

• Kasikorn Vision Limited Company
  
  Kasikorn Vision Company Limited (“KVision”) is an investment holding company initiated under the mandate to source new value-enhancing capabilities for KASIKORNBANK Public Company Limited (“KBank”) and our respective clients. It is our mission to scout innovative firms and tech talents with flexible collaborative models including hiring, co-creating solutions, forming partnerships, offering subscription, forming joint ventures and making direct investments (M&A).

• 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.