Baker McKenzie

The multi-faceted funds practice at Baker McKenzie provides a ‘cost-effective, efficient and professional service’ to GPs and LPs across the spectrum of their structuring and compliance needs relating to both registered and unregistered fund vehicles. The real estate asset class is a core area of focus, with ’solutions oriented’ team head Jason Ng regularly instructed by marquee client Gaw Capital, including on the formation of its seventh flagship private equity real estate fund. Jeremy Ong heads up the REIT subgroup that is instructed by the majority of listed REITs on the HKSE, handling fund formation, capital markets-related mandates (including IPOs) and on their downstream investments. Edwin Wong is also very active within the real estate asset class, particularly as it relates to data centres. In addition, Wong is at the frontier of trends in the market, including the current popularity of continuation funds as a means of bridging the gap in providing liquidity to managers and their investors in a challenging economic environment. Joy Lam has an excellent understanding of the developing regulatory framework governing the crypto and excels in helping to establish funds investing in virtual assets and on the establishment of tokenised funds. Sophia Man rounds out the team at partner level, and has a multidisciplinary workload in the pensions space, including fund formation, restructuring, investment and regulatory matters.