OVERVIEW
Sharon is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. She specialises in a wide range of fund formation and structuring including private equity, venture capital, infrastructure and real estate funds, private debt funds and hedge funds. Sharon also has broad experience advising on private equity downstream transactions, carried interest arrangements, co-investments, fund restructurings, fund financing and both GP and LP led secondaries. Her clients include leading global and top-tier regional private equity and venture capital sponsors, some of the biggest securities houses in China and Japan, leading conglomerates in Japan and Korea plus boutique and start-up managers.
Sharon has been recognised as a top female practitioner in Investment Funds and Women in Business Law in Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Expert Guide 2021 and 2022. She has been described in multiple leading publications including IFLR1000 Asia, Chambers and Who’s Who Legal as “first-rate”, "widely applauded for her encyclopaedic knowledge of the market, recent trends, topical issues and its solution” and providing “consistently prompt and practical advice”. Who's Who Legal has recognised her as a Thought Leader and National Leader in WWL – Mainland China & HK SAR 2021 and 2022 in the field of Private Funds, Global Leader in WWL 2022 in the field of Private Funds – Formation, and Leading Individual in WWL Private Funds 2023. She has also been recognised as a winner of the 2022 Client Choice Award for Private Funds, which recognises firms and partners who stand out for their excellent client care and quality of service.
She is a member of the HKVCA Technical Committee.
BACKGROUND
Sharon joined the Maples Group in 2008 and was elected as a partner in December 2015. She previously worked for a law firm in Jersey and, before that, was an in-house lawyer for Westpac Banking Corporation, having initially worked for Bell Gully in New Zealand.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Corporate
Funds & Investment Management
BAR ADMISSIONS
2002 - Admitted as a barrister and solicitor to the High Court of New Zealand (not practising)
EDUCATION
University of Auckland, New Zealand, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws (Hons)
Institute of Professional Legal Studies, New Zealand
LANGUAGES
English
Cantonese
Japanese
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KNOWLEDGE
- BVI Regulatory Obligations and Filing Deadlines 2022 12 May 2022
- BVI Regulatory Sandbox Launched to Support Innovative FinTech 22 January 2021
- BVI Approved Managers: Upcoming Deadline 18 January 2021
- EU Removes the Cayman Islands from Annex I 06 October 2020
- Amendments to the Cayman Islands Private Funds Law 2020 07 July 2020
- British Virgin Islands Regulatory Obligations and Filing Deadlines 2020 10 June 2020
- BVI CbCR Reporting System and FATCA CRS Deadlines Extended 05 May 2020
- Amendments to the BVI Regulatory Code 05 May 2020
- British Virgin Islands Update Valuation Policies and Procedures and Acceptable Accounting Standards 17 March 2020
- New Regulatory Regime for Closed-Ended Funds in the British Virgin Islands 17 March 2020
NEWS & DEALS
- Maples Group Expands Asia Funds & Investment Management Practice with Appointment of New Partner 02 August 2023
- Nine Maples Group Partners Recognised in 12th Edition of Women in Business Law Expert Guide 25 October 2022
- Maples Advises on EQT AB's Acquisition of Baring Private Equity Asia 06 April 2022
- Maples Group Wins Multiple Law Firm Awards and Leading Individual Recognitions in Asia 31 December 2021
- Maples Advises CLSA Capital Partners on New Investment Fund Launches 03 March 2021