Edward Fang
Han Kun is a leading full-service law firm in China. Over the years, Han Kun has been widely recognized as a leader in complex cross-border and domestic transactions. Our main practice areas include private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, international and domestic capital markets, investment funds, asset management, antitrust/competition, banking and finance, aviation finance, foreign direct investment, compliance, private client/wealth management, intellectual property and dispute resolution.
We have more than 700 professionals located in our six offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Haikou, Wuhan and Hong Kong. All our lawyers are graduates of top universities and have extensive experience in complex cross-border transactions and dispute resolution as counsel to both Chinese and foreign clients. Our working languages include Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and German.
Barings is a global INVESTMENT MANAGER sourcing differentiated opportunities and building portfolios across public and private fixed income, real estate and specialist equity markets. As a subsidiary of MassMutual, we have the financial stability and flexibility to take a long-term approach. Our global footprint gives us a broad perspective and the ability to truly partner with our clients to invest across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Founded in 2016, Marathon Venture Partners (“MVP”) is a leading early-stage venture capital firm focusing on the digital health.
Marathon Venture Partners intensively focuses on the early-stage of entrepreneurship, and achieves a forward-looking layout in the three major infrastructures of efficient access, innovative payment and efficiency improvement of digital health, helping the transformation and upgrading of China's medical and health system, which benefits 1.4 billion people, to reduce costs and raise quality of medical service.
At present, MVP RMB and USD funds have invested in more than 50 companies, including medical devices, mobile healthcare and services, precision diagnosis, and medical insurance companies with core technologies and innovative business models. Up to now, the founding team has accumulated over RMB 3,000 million in investment management.
Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 25 countries, Neuberger Berman’s diverse team has over 2,500 professionals. For eight consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). In 2020, the PRI named Neuberger Berman a Leader, a designation awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The PRI also awarded Neuberger Berman an A+ in every eligible category for our approach to ESG integration across asset classes. The firm manages $447 billion in client assets as of March 31, 2022.
The First Institute of Finance and Economics is a non-profit independent think tank research institution under First Finance and Economics, a key think tank in Shanghai (the first batch), with the purpose of "committed to improving economic policy". With a global international perspective and based on independent research and analysis of facts and data, think tanks provide innovative and implementable policy plans and suggestions to improve the quality and transparency of China's economic policies and promote efficient, fair and sustainable global economic and financial governance. As a global high-end resource integrator and a think-tank relying on strong media influence, the First Institute of Finance and Economics launched its annual flagship report, subject research, decision-making consultation, forums and seminars, as well as index and ranking and other products.
AVCJ has been the leading source of information on private equity and venture capital activities in Asia since its establishment in 1987. Asia’s deal-making industry has relied on AVCJ’s insightful editorial coverage, reliable data, intelligent analysis and market leading conferences to conduct their day-to-day business from deal sourcing, due diligence to fundraising and exits.
Today, AVCJ’s suite of information products has expanded and diversified from the original Asian Venture Capital Journal Magazine to include a flagship weekly digest, a daily e-newsletter, and our industry leading database and research services.
For the first time in a decade, SALT and iConnections are bringing together the brightest minds across investors, asset managers and entrepreneurs for a three-day event in Singapore at Marina Bay Sands this November 14-16. This marks the return of SALT Asia, which was last hosted in 2012 and 2013.
SALT hosts digital media and flagship conferences around the world, connecting leading asset managers and entrepreneurs with top asset allocators and policy experts. iConnections is a capital introduction platform that connects the investment management community year-round.
Crispy Beauty Global Goodwill is China's top fashion blogger e-commerce platform, which was established in April 2020. It is a private domain e-commerce platform incubated by China's most influential top beauty blogger IP: Cuixi Tracey. It aims to provide high net worth smart users who take Cuixi Tracey's fans as the core and precisely radiate to China's first and second tier cities and some overseas users in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia with the goal of providing them with the beauty Healthy and cost-effective beauty and lifestyle products. With Beauty with Power as its core value and health and beauty as our target users' empowerment as its goal, after nearly two years of rapid development, Crispy Global Goodwill has become the largest and most influential blogger e-commerce platform in China.
Bon Café+ is a platform promoting sustainable impact investing. It is established in 2021 by THE ODYSSEY, a team of professionals with hybrid backgrounds, including academic research, international media and event organizing. Other than selling Myanmar alternative plantation coffee beans, BonCafé+ connects people from governments, business associations, think tanks, international institutions, media, enterprises, NGOs, farmers and consumers. We support the promotion of knowledge and activities aiming at sustainable development and through our online community app “The Odyssey” .In November 2021,the Beijing Social Enterprise Development Promotion Association, a subcommittee of the Beijing Municipal Social Work Committee and the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau,recognized Beijing Bon Café+ Co.Ltd as a Beijing Social Enterprise.
Hainan Huijin Technology is a high-tech enterprise mainly engaged in energy saving and environmental protection fuel oil technology application. Through the application in gasoline, diesel oil, Marine oil and aviation oil and other fields, to achieve fuel efficiency increase by 20%, comprehensive emission reduction by 80%, carbon reduction by 20%. Under the goal of carbon neutrality, Huijin Technology helps the country win the blue sky battle, and promotes the comprehensive green transformation and high-quality development of the economy and society. The company has a strong focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly gender equality and climate action. Huijin Technology is willing to work with all sectors of society to promote low-carbon travel and low-carbon life, protect the ecological environment, build a beautiful China, promote diversity and inclusive culture, and make contributions to the realization of the Chinese Dream!
Lean In Beijing is the first city-level community of Lean In China. It aims to spread Lean In culture and philosophy to the outside world, empowering the humanity and all workplaces. We hope that through our activities, documents, and related items, comprehensively improve the skills, leadership, and create a platform for everyone to share and learn to help them find more like-minded partners and expand their diversified network. Lean in Beijing regularly organizes different types of offline activities such as "Leadership Program", "Mentorship Program", "Circle Activities", and the scale of each activity ranges from 10 to 100.
China Insights Consultancy
China Insights Consultancy is a professional consultancy serving the investment and financing field. CIC provides research and consulting services for companies in various industries to go public in the capital market and raise funds. Our research covers 200 subdivisions, and our consultant team has experience in serving more than 3,000 companies. CIC also builds communication channels to help customers obtain industry information and latest trends by owning a network of more than 350,000 industry experts worldwide.
[Introduction to ZD Proxy]
Founded in 2016, ZD Proxy Shareholder Services is the first domestic proxy advisory firm in China. As a pioneer in the field, ZD has provided proxy advice covering over 800 A-share listed companies for a clientele of institutional investors that oversee a total of $20 trillion in AUM globally.
Since inception, we are committed to building trust and safeguarding clients’ long-term interests. Working closely with institutional investors, we strive to bring China’s corporate governance and sustainable growth to a higher level.
PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income. With our launch in 1971 in Newport Beach, California, PIMCO introduced investors to a total return approach to fixed income investing. For more than 50 years, PIMCO have worked relentlessly to help millions of investors pursue their objectives – regardless of shifting market conditions. As active investors, PIMCO aims not just to find opportunities, but to create them. To this end, PIMCO remains firmly committed to the pursuit of our mission: delivering superior investment returns, solutions and service clients.
China Insights Consultancy is a professional consultancy serving the investment and financing field. CIC provides research and consulting services for companies in various industries to go public in the capital market and raise funds. Our research covers 200 subdivisions, and our consultant team has experience in serving more than 3,000 companies. CIC also builds communication channels to help customers obtain industry information and latest trends by owning a network of more than 350,000 industry experts worldwide.
“The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is the global representative of the alternative investment industry, with around 2,100 corporate members in over 60 countries. AIMA’s fund manager members collectively manage more than US$2.5 trillion in hedge fund and private credit assets. AIMA draws upon the expertise and diversity of its membership to provide leadership in industry initiatives such as advocacy, policy and regulatory engagement, educational programmes and sound practice guides. AIMA works to raise media and public awareness of the value of the industry.
Formally established in June 2014, we are a women empowerment, self-development non-profit organization. It aspires to inspire and encourage Chinese women through experience sharing and learning, discovering and developing one's potential and leadership, and pursuing one's own definition of success and happiness. Inspire and Empower Women in China. Together we are better.
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