Investment Funds: Private Equity (International Firms)
Global Guide 2024 : China
Band 3
Contact number
+852 3664 6488About
Provided by Ropes & Gray LLP
More than 300 Ropes & Gray partners, counsel and associates focus on advising a global client base of asset management firms, including fund sponsors, investors, and investment advisers, on all aspects of their business. Our experience across the entire spectrum of private and registered fund structures and vehicles, investment strategies, asset types and industries allows us to identify significant commercial, regulatory and economic issues, understand emerging trends and craft innovative solutions that are unique to the concerns of clients throughout the industry and in jurisdictions around the world.
Our asset management practice brings together the experience of our three leading investment funds groups:
Derivatives & Commodities
Private Funds
Registered Funds
Regulatory Compliance for Private Funds
In addition, our asset management industry clients rely on Ropes & Gray for full-service, seamless, cross-border advice in areas such as taxation, ERISA, derivatives and commodities, securities litigation, government enforcement, investment and M&A transactions, labor and employment, special situations, and business restructuring.
Chambers Review
Ropes & Gray's investment funds team possesses leading expertise in advising LPs on investments into private equity funds, such as pensions boards and sovereign wealth funds. The firm advises on the setting up of an array of closed-end funds, including private equity, infrastructure and technology funds. The team is also experienced in assisting regional sponsors as well as international clients, and also assists investors with secondary transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They are experienced in fund investments and can advise from both LP and GP perspectives."
"They have very deep knowledge about the breadth of fund formation and are familiar with implications across various jurisdictions."
"They are experienced in fund investments and can advise from both LP and GP perspectives."
"They have very deep knowledge about the breadth of fund formation and are familiar with implications across various jurisdictions."
Notable Practitioners
Vincent Ip heads Ropes & Gray's asset management department. He primarily acts for institutional investors on high-value investments in private equity funds, as well as acting for sponsors on a range of closed-end formations.
"He is very good at communicating with both the client and the counterparties and can explain complex issues and matters in a way that is easy to understand. He also has good commercial awareness and understands our business."
"Vincent is a great lawyer who is commercial and has deep experience in funds work. He is very personable and easy to work with."
Lum Chune Loong has a growing track record of advising notable Asia and China-based funds on their investment and fund structuring work.
"He is a very experienced funds lawyer who can advise us holistically from both commercial and legal perspectives. We value his service excellence and responsiveness."
"Through his experience and understanding of the business environment and legal regulations, he has advised clients on cost-efficient solutions to navigate these fund regulatory regimes across the world."
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