Kate Hodson

Practice Areas

Corporate; Funds; Hedge Funds; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Sustainable Investing and ESG; Sustainable Investing and Impact Funds; Technology and Web3; Trusts; Managers and Sponsors

Career

Kate is a partner in Ogier's Investment Funds practice in Hong Kong, is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team, and is Head of ESG (Legal) for Ogier. She advises a large number of sponsors and fund managers as well as their onshore counsel on the establishment and structuring of private equity funds, hedge funds and other closed ended and opened ended fund structures. She also advises LPs, managers, trustees, family offices, HNWIs, administrators and other service providers on fund related issues and other corporate matters. Kate specialises in fund formation and capital raising advice.

Following her passion for sustainable investment, in 2020, Kate completed a Masters in Energy and Environmental Law from The Chinese University of Hong Kong where she achieved a Scholarship for Academic Excellence and the Gane Prize for Energy and Environmental Law. Following this, Kate launched Ogier's Sustainable Investing and Impact Funds practice, the first of its kind for an offshore law firm.

Kate is also one of a small group of offshore lawyers with a significant Japan practice, advising Japanese managers on establishing Cayman Islands unit trust fund structures and GP/LP closed ended fund structures. Her clients include some of the largest investment houses and prominent fund managers in Japan.

She is well placed to advise on the full life-cycle of an investment fund, including advising on downstream investment transactions, shareholder arrangements, liquidations, financings and regulatory matters in respect of both Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law.

Kate was named among the top law lawyers for Ultra High Net Worth Individuals by Billionaire.com in conjunction with Wealth and was named one of Asia's Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 by Asia Legal Business in both 2016 and 2019. She won Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Business Law Awards 2023 APAC and was also named on Asia Business Law Journal's A List of top 50 offshore lawyers 2024.

Professional Memberships

Admitted in:

2008 - England and Wales (non practising)

2015 - British Virgin Islands

Kate is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales and registered as a foreign lawyer in Hong Kong.