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

How, When and Why to Use the Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Model, China Law & Practice, July 2024; Secondary Solutions in Asia: Navigating Regulatory Clampdowns, China Law & Practice, June 2023; 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.

Clients

Mr. Chan’s clients have included:

All-Stars Capital; Asia Investment Capital; Cenova Health; China Media Capital; CITIC Private Equity; Cowin Capital; FountainVest Partners; HOPU Capital; INCE Capital; Mars, Inc.; PingAn Capital; PME Capital; RRJ Capital; Sky9 Capital; Temasek

Holdings; Unicorn Capital; and Vision Plus Capital.

Languages Spoken

Cantonese, English and Mandarin

Work Highlights

CPE Capital (formerly known as CITIC PE Funds), one of the top-10 China private equity firms, in connection with the final closing of its US$ 3.2 billion fourth flagship fund, CPE China Fund IV, L.P.; FountainVest Partners, one of the most established independent private equity firms in Asia, in connection with the final closing in June 2022 of its US$ 2.9 billion fourth flagship fund, FountainVest Capital Partners Fund IV, L.P.; INCE Capital Ltd. in the final closing of its second USD-denominated private investment fund and related Annex Fund.

Awards

Education