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Monday 17 June 2019

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12:15 – 13:30 (light lunch will be provided)

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Sidley Austin Office

39/F, Two Int'l Finance Centre, Central, Hong Kong

RSVP

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[email protected]

Philip Pang, Associate Director | Office Service, Colliers International

Jacqueline Kwok, Director of Business Development – APAC, Securitize

Joy Lam, Partner – International Funds Group, Sidley Austin

Philip Pang

Associate Director | Office Services

Colliers International

Philip is with Colliers International, advising multinational and local companies in all aspects of real estate, with a key focus on coworking, funds, and asset management occupiers. He’s also a mentor for Colliers TechStars PropTech Accelerator, a global initiative to develop and bring to market new Property Technology initiatives, with a focus on Blockchain and Tokenizing Real Estate with Digital Securities. Philip is also an Advisor to Genesis Block, a leading Digital Assets OTC trading centre and blockchain community builder in Hong Kong. He’s has also launched two start-ups which has been endorsed by Google Empowering Young Entrepreneurs Program, Hong Kong Cyberport CCMF Fund, and Esri Start-up Program.

Jacqueline Kwok

Director of Business Development – APAC

Securitize

Jacqueline ('JK') spent the bulk of her career in private equity with a focus on fundraising and growth equity investments within TMT, manufacturing, and consumer industries in China. JK managed international market expansion for a Rocket Internet-backed startup, which took her from Berlin to Chicago. After investing in crypto assets during her tenure in VMWare's Networking and Security team, she has focused all her efforts within the blockchain/crypto space working for a custody startup. She has an MBA from INSEAD, and started her career at the KPMG Hong Kong Office.

Joy Lam

Partner – International Funds Group

Sidley Austin

JOY LAM is a partner in the international funds group in the Hong Kong office of Sidley Austin.  Her practice focuses primarily on investment funds and covers a wide range of investment fund formation transactions, with a particular focus on advising sponsors of real estate funds, private equity funds, infrastructure funds and crossover hybrid funds.  Joy’s real estate fund formation experience has included a complex first-of-its-kind offshore fund utilizing onshore feeder structures, single asset and development site funds, debt funds and blind pool funds.

Joy also has significant experience in public and private mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate finance transactions.  In addition to acting on fund formation matters, Joy also regularly advises clients in connection with joint venture and seeding arrangements, management and shareholding arrangements, downstream acquisitions and disposals, secondary transactions, co-investments and other corporate matters.

Joy was named a “Rising Star” by Law360 in its annual report in 2018 that recognizes the “top legal talent under 40” who are practicing at a level “usually seen from veteran attorneys.” Joy is also recognized by IFLR1000 2019 as a notable practitioner in the Hong Kong investment funds area.