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 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. Ann’s recent experience includes advising on a number of new investment funds for the largest and most high-profile wealth manager in China, as well as assisting with the launch of multiple investment funds in support of the Greater Bay initiative/ESG and impact investing. Her practice also involves advising a number of international family offices on their strategic investments.
Ann previously worked for Linklaters in London and Hong Kong, and for Freehills in Australia. 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. In 2023, Ann was named as one of 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds by the Hedge Fund Journal. Ann is regularly invited to speak at high profile industry conferences and seminars as an offshore expert. She is fluent in Cantonese.
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