Kenix Chan
Chief Partner & Executive Director
Ms. Chan has practiced in legal and compliance for over 20 years. She has extensive experiences in managing crisis incidents in suspicious investigations relating to breaches in regulatory compliance aspects. Ms. Chan has an impeccable reputation and track records in handling the SFC and ICAC investigations and inspections on Financial Institutions, SFC's Licensed Corporations and Licensed Persons against crucial regulatory disciplinary enforcement.
Ms. Chan has extensive experience in both offshore and local based retail funds and ETFs. In her career, she was in charge of many fund projects, responsible for fund setup, termination, SFC's fund authorization & de-authorization, launching, sales & marketing and ETF listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Ms. Chan's strength not only in managing onshore / offshore funds and authorization also includes issuance of due diligence analyses in PE Projects to different kinds of Issuers, Investors and/or counter parties. She has hands-on experiences involving in various PRC State-Owned Investment Projects as well as different kinds of offshore PE Investment Projects.
In addition, Ms. Chan possesses skill and talent in pitching potential investors and forming strong project team by collaborating different professional counterparties from specialist areas. Ms. Chan has wide-range human networks and resources from financial industries and social platform.
Ms. Chan has successfully provided legal advice and compliance advisory to the following major institutions and corporations
- Major shareholder of a Hong Kong listed company with market capitalization of over HKD10 billion for family fund setup
- A Hong Kong listed financial institution with market capitalization of over RMB5 billion for Hong Kong SFC legal and operational matters
- A Hong Kong listed company for Asian technology Cayman fund setup
- A Hong Kong well-known overseas Chinese family for family fund formation
- One of the well-known local families in Hong Kong for family wealth management plan setup
- A Hong Kong licensed investment management company for fund distribution
- Led independently to complete the signing of the fundraising agreement of China Guizhou Moutai Private Equity Fund - Guizhou Ruishu Chinese Liquor Industry Investment Fund
- Assisted in arranging a fund of a listed company to be sold at UBS's private bank
- Provide legal and operational advice to a prominent Cambodian property developer on the formation of a Cayman fund aiming to capture investment opportunities and to establish a sustainable business in Myanmar
Ms. Chan is good at managing, tracking down any kinds of suspicious transactions and imposing remediation through organizational restructuring of internal controls corresponding to the SFC regulated activities in Type 1- "Dealing in Securities", Type 2- "Dealing in Futures Contracts", Type 4-"Advising on Securities", Type 5-"Advising on Futures Contracts", Type 6-"Advising on Corporate Finance", Type 7- "Providing Automated Trading Services" and Type 9- "Asset Management".
Ms. Chan was in charge of organizational restructure. She had led Ping An of China Securities HK Limited to establish its own AML System by coordinating the "Big Data" from Ping An Insurance Group, its affiliates and subsidiaries, localized in HK.
Before entering into the Financial Industry, Ms. Chan was engaged in the senior roles of various reputable corporations, including Ping An of China Asset Management, Ping An of China Securities HK, Ping An of China Capital HK, Ping An of China Futures HK, HSBC Futures Singapore Pte Limited, Aviva Portfolio Investment Services Limited and Aviva Life Company Insurance Limited, Sun Life Financial Hong Kong, Maples and Calders, Linklaters, Woo Kwan Lee & Lo, Lily Fenn & Co., Prime Investments Holdings Limited (Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong), etc.
Ms. Chan studied and earned her professional qualification in the United Kingdom. She studied LLB, LPC and MBA from the University of London, the University of BPP and the University of Manchester respectively. Ms. Chan also earned her qualification as Anti-Money Laundering Specialist in the UK and Higher Diploma in Political and Economic Studies in the Beijing University at her youth century. Her next qualified professional target is Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst in September 2022.