About Deacons
Deacons was established in Hong Kong in 1851. With 170+ years’ experience of providing legal services, it is the longest established independent, full service, law firm in Hong Kong.
Deacons regularly advises statutory bodies, governmental institutions and conglomerates across major industry sectors in Hong Kong and Mainland China, on their most significant and complex matters.
Our core areas of experience include Intellectual Property, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, China Trade and Investment, Competition, Construction, Corporate and M&A, Corporate Services, Data Protection and Privacy, Employment and Pensions, Family Law, Financial Services, Investment Funds, Insurance, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Private Clients, Real Estate and Regulatory.
Recruiting the best people is a priority. We have over 620 staff including 55 partners and around 200 lawyers, ensuring that we have a wide range of experience to draw on across the full spectrum of legal services.
We are the largest legal investment management team in the market, led by 10 partners with the support of over 50 fee earners. We are highly experienced in the full range of retail and alternative investment funds. For China-related work, we draw upon our dedicated team of Mandarin-speaking investment fund practitioners and the resources of our representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
About KPMG
KPMG is a global organisation of independent professional services firms providing audit, tax and advisory services in 143 countries and territories. KPMG China has offices in 31 cities including Hong Kong, with more than 15,000 partners and staff.
KPMG works with top companies in every industry sector, in China and globally. Through helping other organisations mitigate risks and grasp opportunities, we drive positive, sustainable change for clients, our people and society. Our seasoned professionals have an intimate knowledge of sector-specific business issues and bring rich practical project experience to our client engagements.
Asset Management is a key pillar of our Financial Services team. In Hong Kong, our Asset Management experts offer deep and specialised knowledge across asset classes including traditional and alternative assets, pension funds and private equity.
We offer valuable advice to clients in areas including the regulatory landscape, sustainable investment and technology development. Our local insights and cross-border experience means that we can help our clients to access the growing opportunities and navigate the landscape in the Chinese Mainland market. In 2024, for example, we are helping clients to understand the rapid regulatory developments in areas including virtual assets and ESG, so they can explore the fast-emerging opportunities.
We also work with the industry to share our thoughts with the authorities on how to enhance Hong Kong’s status as a global and regional asset management hub. Our combined insights and efforts have helped lay the groundwork for initiatives such as the family office tax incentive introduced in 2023.
About Lexcel Partners
Lexcel Partners, Attorneys at Law is a solution-oriented law firm in Taiwan. We offer zealous representation and full-range services in integrated law and business consultancy to domestic and international clients. Each of our partners and counsels has extensive experience in areas such as corporate, foreign investment, mergers and acquisitions, labor, trade, anti-trust, financial and other regulatory compliance, capital market, asset management, dispute resolution, IP, etc. We have been consistently recommended or ranked by publications such as Bloomberg, Chambers, Legal 500, IFLR 1000, Asia law, as one of the top law firms in Taiwan across major fields, including corporate and investment, M&A, financial compliance, dispute resolution, asset management, employment and banking & finance.
Members of Lexgroup include Lexcel Partners, Attorneys at Law, Lexcel Partners IP Firm, Lexcel Partners IP Co., Ltd., and ESM Holding Co., Ltd., Taiwan Branch (our translation team).
About Morningstar, Inc.
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment insights in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $264 billion in assets under advisement and management as of Sept. 30, 2023. The Company operates through wholly-or majority-owned subsidiaries in 32 countries. For more information, visit www.morningstar.com/company. Follow Morningstar on X @MorningstarInc.
About Llinks Law Offices
Llinks Law Offices is a leading PRC law firm with a nationwide and international practices specializing in cross-border transactions. We are renowned for providing high quality legal services and formulating innovative solutions to complex legal problems. We also strive to build a collegial team environment where the development of young lawyers is crucial to our future success. The firm’s professionalism and business expertise have been consistently recognized by numerous reputable national and international publications as a leading Chinese law firm, and has received the prestigious award of National Outstanding Law Firm in China.
About EY
EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
About RWS
RWS is the world’s leading provider of language solutions for the investment management industry.
Our tech-enabled services enable fund managers to connect with their global audiences, accelerating the way they create, translate and deliver content.
Our secure AI-powered translation solutions reduce risk in the content process, giving our clients confidence in the quality and accuracy of their most sensitive regulated materials, wherever they are delivered.
Our ability to bring control to content across the enterprise helps our clients to demonstrate compliance with regulators while building trust with their audiences.
Our proven language capabilities support our clients as they seek to improve speed-to-market, drive competitive advantage and optimise the customer experience.
Find out more at https://www.rws.com/industries/financial-services/asset-management/.
About Simmons & Simmons
Simmons & Simmons is a world-class international law firm. We use our specialist skills to understand the businesses of our clients, and the business and regulatory environment they operate in. We are grounded with exceptional knowledge of the legal issues. We provide the highest quality legal advice, wherever and whenever it’s needed.
We are a law firm that acts as your business partner and works with you, and not for you. We consistently deliver smarter, more efficient ways to tackle our clients’ most complex challenges.
We have had a presence in Asia for over 44 years. With offices established in Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Singapore, we provide a comprehensive and integrated service that addresses our clients’ requirements throughout the region, wherever their business takes them.
We are not newcomers to the region and have an in-depth understanding of local laws and regulations. Our team is comprised of members who have worked closely with regulators and market participants to develop laws and regulations as the business environment evolves. Our long-standing regional experience also means that we know how to get things done efficiently. With strong support (as needed) from our international network, we are also able to respond quickly to our client’s needs with commercially driven, market-leading legal advice.
About Euroclear
As a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure, Euroclear provides domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bonds, equities, derivatives, and funds. Euroclear FundsPlace® is the end-to-end fund solution across asset classes, enabling fund management companies, distributors, and custodians to benefit from a single point of access to more than 250,000 funds across asset classes: mutual and money market funds, ETFs, and alternative funds.
Far beyond its operational capabilities with €3.1 trillion funds under administration, backed by a trusted and neutral infrastructure, Euroclear FundsPlace® is an end-to-end and innovating platform driven by data-enabled and digital services, to deliver risk-mitigation, efficiency, and new growth opportunities for its global client franchise.
The Euroclear group comprises Euroclear Bank, the International CSD, as well as Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden, Euroclear UK & International.
About Lianhe Ratings Global Limited
Lianhe Ratings Global Limited (“Lianhe Global”) was founded in 2017 in Hong Kong and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the largest Chinese onshore credit rating agency China Lianhe Credit Rating Co., Ltd. (“Lianhe Ratings”). As the international credit rating arm of the Lianhe company group, Lianhe Global is a Type 10 license holder approved by HKSFC to provide credit rating services. It has become the first and only Chinese international rating agency to publish over 100 ratings for both issuers and issuances.
Lianhe Global is an international rating agency with an extensive footprint in China. Lianhe Global strictly follows the international rating process and standard. Our team consists of international professionals who have a total of more than 40 years of work experience across industries and products in the Big 3 international rating agencies. Through the domestic linkage with Lianhe Ratings, Lianhe Global has access to a well-established and broad network of Chinese investors, bankers and issuers.
Since its establishment, Lianhe Global has been deemed as the “Best Chinese Offshore Rating Agency” by many foreign and Chinese financial media including Euromoney Group, FinanceAsia, CorporateTreasurer, DMI, Wall Street Trader APP/SereS, Duration Finance, the Asset etc.
Lianhe Global has been adhering to the motto of open-mindedness, diligence, and professionalism, and is committed to serving the capital market needs of debt issuers, and providing professional, objective, and valuable credit insights for international investors. Improving the competitiveness of indigenous Chinese rating agencies above and beyond China in the international capital market is our mission and ambition.
About FE fundinfo
FE fundinfo is a leading investment management financial and technology company connecting the investment community in the UK, Europe and APAC.
We are at the forefront of investment management, offering a technology platform that bridges asset managers and distribution networks, to investors.
We empower the investment management community to drive asset growth, operational efficiency and cost optimisation, simplifying global market entry and growth digitally and seamlessly. It is through our unique position in the investment management value chain that we deliver verified information and actionable intelligence to enable operational efficiencies and market insight.
To find out more, contact our global team of specialists at enquiries@fefundinfo.com.
Visit fefundinfo.com or follow us at @FE fundinfo.
About Moody’s
Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better, faster decisions. Our deep risk expertise, expansive information resources, and innovative application of technology help our clients confidently navigate an evolving marketplace. We are known for our industry-leading and award-winning solutions, made up of research, data, software, and professional services, assembled to deliver a seamless customer experience. We create confidence in thousands of organizations worldwide, with our commitment to excellence, open mindset approach, and focus on meeting customer needs.
Our Mission: Empowering our customers to make better, faster decisions.
Our Vision: To be the global leader in solving critical business problems.
Our Values: Customer focus, excellence, open mindset, and teamwork.
Moody’s Analytics began in 2008 as a commercial licensee of ratings, content, and research from Moody’s Investors Service, which Moody’s Analytics incorporated into its own products and services and made available to its customers. While Moody’s Analytics continues in that capacity, over time we have broadened our offerings to include an unparalleled range of financial risk solutions. Moody’s Analytics is formed as a separate and independent entity from Moody’s Investors Service.
Moody’s Analytics has grown through both solution innovation and strategic acquisition. Many leading firms have joined us on our journey to provide the global financial marketplace with world-class tools and expertise for managing risk. As financial risk and regulation grow increasingly complex, Moody’s Analytics looks forward to continuing to help risk professionals make informed decisions and build successful strategies.