Luxembourg Private Equity Seminar in Hong Kong

Location: HSBC 1 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong.

Time: Registration: 4.00 pm – Conference: 4.30 pm

The LPEA organised the Luxembourg Private Equity Seminar in Hong Kong on November 16th. The event was kindly hosted by HSBC and included a keynote speech by Weijian Shan.

We welcomed a small group of PE/VC professionals in view of discussing European market trends and synergies between the Luxembourg and Chinese markets.

Agenda:

Welcome words by:

– Roland Reiland, Ambassador of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg in Beijing
– David Liao, Co-CEO – Asia Pacific (HSBC)
– Stephane Pesch (LPEA)

Private Equity trends – a Luxembourg/Hong Kong overview

– Excee Tan (KPMG)
– Neil Synnott (IQ-EQ)

Panel “Structuring funds in Luxembourg”

– Charlotte Chen (Elvinger Hoss Prussen)
– Miao Wang (Allen & Overy)
– Pierre Beissel (Arendt)

Panel “Distribution and fundraising”

– Silver Kung (Siegfried Capital Partners, a GP active in Asia, with a Luxembourg fund structure)
– Riccardo Millich (HSBC)
– Brian Campion (Intertrust)
– Julien Ghata (PwC)

Keynote Speech by Weijian Shan, chairman and co-founder of PAG

Networking Cocktail

Weijian Shan’s Biography

Weijian Shan is the executive chairman and co-founder of PAG, a leading Asia-based and focused investment firm with more than USD50 billion in capital under management. Before joining PAG, he was a partner of TPG and co-managing partner of TPG Asia (formerly known as Newbridge Capital), and a managing director of JP Morgan. He was an assistant professor at the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania. He also worked at the World Bank. Shan holds an MA and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Shan is the author of Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America (2019), Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank (2021) and Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China (2023).