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‘Being in investment management, we need to capture investments when markets are positive and navigate the markets when recoveries are slow,’ says Amy Ng on her role at CBRE Global Investors. In her role as Asia Pacific general counsel, Ng provides legal support across the whole region, and has taken an active role in the business’ growth to more than ten funds since she joined the company in 2005. For those who deal with her, Amy particularly excels in managing the regional team and in her dealings with a broad subsection of internal people from different parts of the business. ‘I very much enjoy working with different people from our different countries and with different roles,’ Ng says. Her work on the closing of China Opportunity Fund II was, for some, a particular accolade. She has helped to form new separate accounts with institutional investors in Korea and the Middle East. In 2010 Ng worked on CBRE Global Investors Asia’s merger with ING Real Estate Investment Management Asia, which made the real estate investment manager one of the largest around. In 2008 Ng handled taking over the management of two funds in Japan. ‘The variety of my work is very great,’ she says. ‘It ranges from acquisitions, disposals, re-financing to formation of Cayman funds, formation of a hariah-compliant fund – so things are never dull’. When it comes to dealing with private practice, she has firm views on the level of service which encourages her to work with firms on an ongoing basis. ‘I like to see firms and teams that are focused, client-oriented and able to stand on our side’.