Ann Cheung

Ann has extensive experience advising and assisting financial institutions, fund houses, investment managers, private equity investors and individual clients on their mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, hedge funds and private equity funds, including on formation, corporate maintenance, ongoing operations, restructuring, strategic exits and dissolution of a variety of investment structures and vehicles.

Prior to joining Maples, Ann practiced law in the Hong Kong, London and Tokyo offices of DLA Piper, where she advised and assisted clients on capital markets and corporate finance transactions, corporate governance, corporate restructuring, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, financial regulatory compliance, initial public offerings, private equity investments and white-collar regulatory investigations. Ann also has comprehensive offshore experience in advising and assisting clients on Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands matters, such as formation and on-going operations and maintenance of open-ended funds and closed-ended funds, private equity investments, series financing, SPAC mergers and corporate restructuring, at the Hong Kong offices of international offshore law firms.