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Provided by Geoffrey Chan
Investment Management
Admitted in Hong Kong and New York. Council Representative of the Hong Kong Limited Partnership Fund Association.
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.
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.
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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.
Provided by Chambers
In addition to being a very knowledgeable lawyer who is able to provide sound legal analysis and offer recommendations on legal course of action, he has a very acute commercial sense.
He is a very experienced fund formation lawyer with exceptional legal expertise, clear and effective communication and a thorough understanding of the fund industry.
In addition to being a very knowledgeable lawyer who is able to provide sound legal analysis and offer recommendations on legal course of action, he has a very acute commercial sense.
He is a very experienced fund formation lawyer with exceptional legal expertise, clear and effective communication and a thorough understanding of the fund industry.
