New Members 2021

Corporate Full Members

• AJ Group
   
• APlus Partners Management Co., Limited
  
  APlus Partners is a leading alternative investment management firm headquartered in Hong Kong, with a primary focus on private equity and credit opportunity in Greater-China region.
   
• Azimuth Asset Consulting
  
  Azimuth Asset Consulting provides strategic, organisational and operational advice to guide asset owners and asset managers towards their long-term goals. Azimuth Asset Consulting specialises in providing discreet advice on complex situations such as governance structures, conflicts of interests resolution, succession planning, strategic growth opportunities, and post-merger/acquisition organisational change.
   

• Betatron Ventures Limited

  Founded in 2016 and with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore, Betatron Venture Group is an early-stage Venture Capital firm focused on the Series Pre-A and Series A market. The Group focuses on Asia excluding Mainland China and currently has 30 portfolio companies including two successful exits.
   

• Brawn Capital Limited

  Brawn Capital is an asset manager dedicated to furthering the expansion of renewable energy. Brawn Capital offers investors an opportunity to invest in solar power plants in Asia-Pacific that are sourced by its exclusive on-the-ground development partners via its Funds or separately managed accounts.

• Grosvenor Asia Strategic Adjacencies Limited
  
  Grosvenor is one of the world’s largest privately owned international property business with a track record of over 340 years. We develop, manage and invest with a purpose of improving property and places to deliver leading commercial and social benefit. Grosvenor Asia Strategic Adjacencies Limited is a newly set-up division of Grosvenor Asia with a specific purpose to invest into emerging technology and strategic adjacencies around our core industry. It has a strategic intent to supplement and inform our core business such that we are on the “inside” of the development of the future of our industry.
   
• Hel Ved Capital Management Limited
  
  Hel Ved Capital Management Limited is an asset management firm established in 2019 to focus on Asia Driven Technology, Media, Communications and Consumer Discretionary (TMT) Long Short Equities. We invest with patience and believe that history rhymes. Hel Ved Capital is headquartered in Hong Kong and regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.
   

• Lavender Hill Capital Partners

  Lavender Hill Capital Partners manages a growth stage private equity fund focusing on TMT and technology enabled sectors in China and China affiliated investments across Asia and globally.

• LYFE Capital

  LYFE is a global healthcare investment firm and platform dedicated to amplification of healthcare through value creation. We work with multi-stage companies with promising fast growth potentials and provide capital and acceleration, allowing them to realize their maximum potential in a dynamic environment. With our team of extremely globally knowledgeable healthcare and investment professionals, we are able to work with flexibility pivoting our investment strategy to match each and every portfolio need. This had led us to invest across global markets, primarily those in Greater China and the North America with the goal of bridge the gap through value generation.

• Mercer
  
  Mercer Alternatives is a global specialist for alternatives investments, offering advisory services, customized and pooled investment solutions for some of the world’s largest institutional investors around the world. Mercer’s flexibility to service its clients in a way that best fits their requirements is based on a modular service concept that reflects our heritage as a trusted advisor to our clients. With an operating history dating back over 25 years, Mercer Alternatives today oversees programs with an AUM of USD 22bn, and provides advice on a further USD 179bn. More than 200 professionals operate out of 25 offices across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific and provide deep expertise, resources, and research capabilities covering all major sub-asset classes within private markets.
   
• Mindworks Capital Limited
   
• Pasaca Capital Inc.
  
  Primarily focused on equity investments, Pasaca targets innovative technologies and products and help their inventors maximize their commercial values in global market through funding, strategic transformations and formulate and execute global marketing strategies. Pasaca currently has offices in US, Hong Kong, Singapore, mainland China and Europe. The company currently does not seek outside capital.
   
• Oakwise Capital Management Limited
  
  Oakwise Capital Management Ltd. is an asset management company registered with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC). Holding the Type 4 and Type 9 licenses issued by SFC, Oakwise Capital Management provides a series of products and services which focus on investing in Greater China, including fund, separated managed account, family office and other services. The investors include renowned state-owned enterprises, city investment enterprises, financial institutions, listed companies, family offices and high net worth individuals.
   
• Vectr Fintech Partners
  
  Our mission is to support amazing Founder’s that are shaping the future of financial technology and services. We have a specialised Fintech venture fund that covers infrastructure, private capital markets and deep tech across Asia and North America.
   

Corporate Associate Members

• AlixPartners Hong Kong Limited
  
  AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses successfully address their most complex and critical challenges. Our clients include companies, corporate boards, law firms, investment banks, private equity firms, and others. Founded in 1981, AlixPartners is headquartered in New York, and has offices in more than 20 cities around the world.
   
• Ankura Consulting
  
  Ankura is a business advisory and expert services firm defined by HOW we solve challenges. Whether a client is facing an immediate business challenge, trying to increase the value of their company or protect against future risks, Ankura designs, develops, and executes tailored solutions by assembling the right combination of expertise. We build on this experience with every case, client, and situation, collaborating to create innovative, customised solutions, and strategies designed for today’s ever-changing business environment. This gives our clients unparalleled insight and experience across a wide range of economic, governance, and regulatory challenges. At Ankura, we know that collaboration drives results.
   
• Asante Capital
  
  Asante is an independent private markets placement and advisory group focused on partnering with best-of-breed fund managers in both the developed and emerging markets.  Since its inception, Asante has successfully led the advisory of over 60 successful primary capital raises, direct investments, and secondary transactions, becoming a leading independent boutique private market advisory firm with a global presence. Asante assists both fund managers in alternative asset classes (private equity, venture capital infrastructure, credit and debt) and entrepreneurs/private companies seeking to raise capital through private placement.  Asante was founded in 2010 and has offices in London, New York and Hong Kong.  It employs over 50 staff across these jurisdictions.  Since inception Asante has raised in the region of $36 billion of primary capital, advised on over $5 billion of secondaries transactions and raised over $2.5 billion of direct investments for its clients.
   

• Constellar Capital Partners HK Ltd.

  Constellar Capital is a consulting and placement firm specializing in Alternative Investments for APAC institutional investors. We have been raising Asian LP money for over seven years. Constellar has a solid history of sourcing world class managers across multiple asset classes and strategies with an impressive track record of raising capital from a wide range of institutional investors across Asia.

• Cooley LLP
  
  Cooley LLP is an international law firm representing clients in a wide range of industries from our offices in Asia, Europe and the United States.  Cooley has more than 1200 lawyers across 17 offices in Asia, Europe and the United States. The firm represents 6,000+ high-growth new economy companies, 500+ venture fund families and closes over 2,000 venture and growth investments per year. In Asia, Cooley has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Cooley is broadly recognized for its powerhouse technology, life sciences and venture capital practices. We represent some of Asia’s most innovative and dynamic companies and leading investors, advising on their financings, M&As and joint ventures, IPOs and other strategic transactions at all stages of their growth. 
   

• Datasite Hong Kong Limited

  We are a SaaS-based cloud platform for confidential document sharing between counterparties in every stage of the M&A lifecycle, including M&A, fundraises, private placements and restructurings.

• Elite Partners CPA Limited
  
  Elite Partners CPA Limited is a corporate practice registered under the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a registered Public Interest Entity Auditor under the Financial Reporting Council Ordinance. We specialise in providing audit and assurance services to Cayman Islands Funds, Limited Partnership Funds and Open-ended Fund Companies, including audit, due diligence and fund accounting services. We also provide audit and assurance to listed companies in Hong Kong and SFC Licensed Corporation.
   
• InCloudCounsel
  
  InCloudCounsel is a legal technology company that combines highly experienced corporate attorneys with cloud-based software to offer a scalable, end-to-end solution for negotiating and managing routine legal work. We help many of the world’s leading companies effectively streamline their contract processes, free up resources, and achieve substantial cost savings. Our global network of highly experienced attorneys are specialists in specific document types in asset management, investment banking, real estate, and healthcare. The InCloudCounsel software platform is designed to maximize organization, efficiency, and insight by providing a robust set of document management and data reporting capabilities.
   
• Linklaters
  
  Linklaters is a leading international law firm and has advised on significant deals in over 100 countries. In addition to serving clients from our 31 offices and via our alliances with Allens and Webber Wentzel, Linklaters’ lawyers have expertise in key jurisdictions across Asia, Europe, the U.S., the Middle East and Africa.
   
• PitchBook
  
  PitchBook is a financial technology company that provides data on the capital markets to help professionals discover and execute opportunities with confidence and efficiency. We collect and analyze detailed data on the entire venture capital, private equity and M&A landscape—including public and private companies, investors, funds, investments, exits and people. Our data and analysis are available through our suite of products (the PitchBook Platform), industry news and in-depth reports.
   
• 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.
   

• Quantium Technology (Hong Kong) Ltd

  Quantium is a modern, intuitive fund and portfolio management system designed for private equity firms, providing actionable investor insights through a powerful data engine and real-time performance analytics. They partner with leading asset managers worldwide, with over $50bn Assets Under Platform.

• Sun Lawyers LLP
  
  Sun Lawyers LLP is a Hong Kong-based medium-sized law firm that was converted to a limited liability partnership (“LLP”) in 2017. Established since 2003, we aim to provide an integrated and comprehensive range of legal services to our international and local clientele. Our philosophy is to provide a down-to-earth approach in delivering quality services and developing long-term client relationship. Our members strive to listen to our clients and understand their needs, thereby offering bespoke and cost-effective services to meet them. Whilst we provide a wide range of services covering corporate and family matters, civil and criminal litigations as well as commercial and property transactions, wills and probate, notarization (notary public and China-Appointed attestation), our expanding practice will aim to broaden our scope to include IPO, corporate finance, trust, asset management and cross-border matters, as we see a rising demand in these areas. We are also committed to providing our clients with alternative dispute resolution services, such as in arbitration and mediation, so as to assist them to resolve disputes more cost-effectively and amicably. We have a diversified local and international clientele, ranging from middle-class and high net worth individuals to SMEs and multi-national corporations. A key strength of our firm is our ambition to broaden our client base to other geographical areas so as to provide our international, mainland and local clients with comprehensive cross-border legal services. The diverse cultural and professional backgrounds of our members assure our clients of tailor-made services on all key practice areas. No effort has been spared to lay a solid foundation for cross-border legal services.
   

Overseas Full Members

• AlleyCorp
   

• Amino Capital

  AMINO Capital is an early stage venture firm based in Palo Alto, focused on investments in big data and data driven technologies. With over $1 billion in capital under management, Amino has funded over 220 companies mostly in seed, Series A and B, including 22 successful exits, 13 unicorns, and industry leading fast growing startups.
   
• Anxa Holding Pte. Ltd.
  
  Anxa Holding Pte Ltd is an investment holding company based in Singapore focusing on early-stage venture capital investments.
   
• BAI Capital Management Limited
  
  BAI Capital is a leading Venture Capital fund. Its team has invested in nearly 200 portfolios with 15 IPOs & 40+ unicorns. It focuses on sectors including Urbanization and Demographic Change, Financial Services, Social/ Media/ Content, Tech & Infrastructure and China Based International Company. Backed by Europe-based Bertelsmann Group, a media, services and education corporation that operates in 50 countries around the world, BAI supports its portfolio company’s growth with not only long-term capital, but also Bertelsmann Group’s vast global resources and channels.
   
• Nuance Capital Limited
  
  Nuance Connected Capital is an early-stage New Zealand VC fund focusing on deep tech, science and innovation that either helps the planet or improves people’s lives. In addition to bringing founder-friendly, on-shore follow-on capital to Kiwi entrepreneurs, all our LPs are large family offices/ business owners across the globe which gives Nuance access to deep international industry networks to help our portfolio companies scale up and drive exits.
   
• NZVC
  
  In today's borderless world and remote working economy the best founders will work from anywhere. New Zealand is synonymous with a competent and effective government, honest institutions and unrivaled natural beauty. NZVC partners and supports with the best founders building global ventures from New Zealand. We're New Zealand's first operator run fund aiming to provide more than just capital. We draw from a network of 100+ domain experts and advisors to help companies at all stages of their lifecycle to find Product Market fit, Scale, Grow and Exit.
   
• UB Ventures, Inc
  
  UB Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in the subscription business. Leveraging our extensive experience in the creation of both B2B and B2C subscription businesses, we provide support to B2B/SaaS and digital media startups to foster sustainable relationships with their users through subscriptions, helping them to grow alongside their users.
   
• United X Capital
   
• Waypoint Capital
  
  With offices in Geneva, London, Jersey, Boston and Luxembourg, Waypoint has two principal areas of focus: 1. Healthcare, building on the Bertarelli family's long involvement in biotechnology and life sciences; 2. Asset Management, where Waypoint uses its expertise to develop interests in areas such as hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate and fund of fund investments. Waypoint’s professionals provide expert advice, support and execution capabilities to the companies and investments associated with it. These span legal support, financial accounting, internal audit, management reporting, tax support, operational due diligence, communications, human resources and technical infrastructure.