Areas of Expertise
Ann is Head of Maples and Calder’s Asia Funds & Investment Management teams in Hong Kong and Singapore. Ann focuses on the international investment fund market. She has over 25 years’ experience and expertise in the formation, structuring and restructuring of all types of open and closed end funds, including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital, real estate and infrastructure funds. Her practice also involves advising a number of international family offices and their strategic investments. Ann is regularly invited to speak at high profile industry conferences and seminars as an offshore expert. She is fluent in Cantonese.
Ann previously worked for Linklaters in London and Hong Kong, and for Freehills in Australia. She joined Maples in 2008 and was elected as a Partner in 2012. She has been recognised as one of the top 10 offshore lawyers in Asia in the Offshore Client Choice List by Asian Legal Business and awarded Best in Offshore at the Asia Women in Business Law Awards for a number of years. Ann has been ranked as a leading individual in The Legal 500, and highly-regarded funds lawyer in Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific, Chambers Global and IFLR1000.
Member of the Law Institute of Victoria, Australia
Member of the Law Society of England and Wales
Member of the 100 Women in Finance (100WF), APAC Lead of Advisory Council
Member of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), Hong Kong Regulatory Committee
Member of the Asian Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV), Regulatory & Tax Committee
Bar Admissions
2000 – Admitted as a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia (not practising)
2002 – Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (not practising)
2010 – Admitted as a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong (not practising)
2012 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands)
Education
University of Melbourne, Australia, Bachelor of Laws (Hons), 1999
University of Melbourne, Australia, Bachelor of Commerce, 1999
Languages
Cantonese
English