Covering fund formations and related fund transactions, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Hong Kong's Hong Kong-based team advises on funds across a range of asset classes, including private equity, real estate and credit, along with infrastructure, energy, technology and venture funds. It also assists with separately-managed accounts and other alternative investment products. Asia investment funds practice head Adam Furber regularly works on significant fund transactions in Asia; and Asia-Pacific region-focused Michael Ceulen is an expert in structuring global private equity funds.
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Key clients
- Advantage Partners
- Affinity Equity Partners
- Alibaba Group
- Apax
- Ant Group Co
- Aspirant Group
- Blackstone
- Brummer & Partners
- Carlyle
- CLSA Capital
- CVC
- D Capital
- Diamond Realty Management
- EmergeVest
- EQT
- Excelsior Capital Asia
- Hillhouse Capital
- JAFCO
- Japan Activation Capital
- Japan Growth Investment Alliance
- Japan Post Investments
- J-STAR
- KKR
- Kyoto Pacific Capital
- Lexington Partners
- Mercuria Investment
- Morgan Stanley
- Newtown Investment Partners
- Nippon Investment Company
- Nissay Asset Management
- NSSK
- PAG
- Polaris Capital Group
- SeaTown Holdings
- Seven Seas Advisors
- Seviora Capital
- Silver Lake
- SK Group
- SL Capital
- T Capital Partners
- Tor Investment Management
- Unison Capital
- Vivo Capital
- Welkin Capital Partners
- Zebra Global Capital
Work highlights
- Advised CVC Capital Partners on the formation and raising of CVC’s sixth Asia-focused private equity fund (CVC Asia VI), which raised $6.8bn.
- Advised Stonepeak Partners on the establishment of its first pan-Asia infrastructure fund, Stonepeak Asia Infrastructure Fund.
- Advised PAG Real Assets, the real assets business of Asia Pacific-based alternative investment manager PAG, on the formation and fundraising of PAG Real Estate Partners III.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Adam Furber, Michael Ceulen