Geoffrey Chan
Greater China Region Guide 2024
Band 2 : Investment Funds (International Firms)
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About
Provided by Geoffrey Chan
Practice Areas
Investment Management
Professional Memberships
Admitted in Hong Kong and New York. Council Representative of the Hong Kong Limited Partnership Fund Association.
Publications
Strategic Cooperations Between Private Equity Sponsors and Corporate Investors: Key Structuring Considerations and Deal Terms for JV Arrangements, China Law & Practice, March 2022; The Hong Kong Limited Partnership Fund —An Attractive Alternative During an Economic Downturn, China Law & Practice, December 2022.
Personal
Geoffrey Chan is head of Skadden’s Asia Investment Management Group, leading a team of more than ten attorneys in advising clients in a variety of strategic planning and compliance decisions. He is a prominent private funds lawyer with significant experience in structuring and forming private equity and venture capital funds for Asia-based managers, especially in mainland China and Hong Kong, covering Asia-based investment advisers and institutional LPs since 2005. Mr. Chan has over 15 years' experience in handling activities and transactions relating to funds and has represented a variety of investment advisers and sponsors throughout Asia in fund formation and other related internal funds issues. In addition, he regularly represents Asia- and US-based institutional investors in their commitments to private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, credit funds, joint-venture funds and other alternative investment vehicles.
Chambers Review
Greater China Region
Geoffrey Chan leads Skadden's investment management department and is based in the firm's Hong Kong office. He is a prominent counsel in the private closed-end space who is competent across a range of structures and strategies.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Geoffrey is very strong. He's very commercially aware, with great responsiveness, on time and within budget."
"He is very solid and has great commercial sense. He can see the bigger picture and appreciate the complexities and dynamics of various stakeholders involved in a transaction."
"Geoffrey is very strong. He's very commercially aware, with great responsiveness, on time and within budget."
"He is very solid and has great commercial sense. He can see the bigger picture and appreciate the complexities and dynamics of various stakeholders involved in a transaction."
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