CAIA Hong Kong Educational and Networking Event with William Kelly, CEO of CAIA 

Alternative Capital Formation in Private Equity

Do you need to know more about the Private Equity market and understand what's happening in the world of alternative capital formation?

Also, would you like to hear William Kelly - CEO of CAIA Association - share his thoughts on his inaugural visit to Hong Kong and learn what's new at CAIA?

Event Overview: The private equity fundraising landscape has evolved significantly since the financial crisis, with a select group of the largest, most established firms attracting significant capital.  Once well respected names are finding fundraising very difficult, and newcomers are finding it nearly impossible. Against this backdrop, there have been interesting and innovative developments in "alternative capital formation".  

This refers to formation of private equity capital in vehicles and structures that differ from the traditional blind pool format, and can include deal-by-deal funding models, co-invest structures, fund recaps, restructurings and managed accounts.  Come listen to a panel of industry thought leaders discuss and comment on these trends. 

Moderator:

Heath Zarin, CAIA
CAIA Hong Kong Chapter Executive Committee Member
Managing Director, EmergeVest 

Confirmed Panelists:

Shirley Xie, Partner, Greater China PE Funds Assurance Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Adam Furber, Counsel, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Javad Movsoumov, Executive Director, UBS Private Funds Group, Singapore

Programme:

6:30 pm Registration and networking 
7:00 pm Introduction and welcome, William Kelly, CEO 
7:10 pm Panel discussion and Q&A
8:00 pm Cocktail reception and networking

The cocktail reception is co-sponsored by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and the CAIA Association.

Moderator bio:

Heath Zarin, CAIA
CAIA Hong Kong Chapter Executive 
Managing Director, EmergeVest  

Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Zarin is a Managing Director with EmergeVest, a private investment boutique.  Previously, Mr. Zarin was Managing Director and Head of Principal Investments, Asia-Pacific, for HSBC, with responsibility for Asian proprietary private investment activities.  Before HSBC, Mr. Zarin was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Emergent Investment Group (EIG), a Hong Kong-based private investment firm, where he completed private equity investments and advised on special situations.  Prior to founding EIG, Mr. Zarin held a series of senior executive roles at Credit Suisse, including forming and managing its Asian private equity business.  Mr. Zarin joined Credit Suisse via its acquisition of DLJ Merchant Banking, where he had broad experience across LBOs, mezzanine, growth capital and other strategies.  Mr. Zarin practiced corporate law with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York, where he formed and advised hedge funds and private equity funds.  

Mr. Zarin’s current and previous board service includes companies across Asia, Europe and North America, in diverse manufacturing and service industries.  In particular, Mr. Zarin serves as the Chairman of NFT Distribution, Chairman of Allport Cargo Services, Chairman of ediTRACK, Director of CS Logistics Holdings and Director of JD United Manufacturing.  Mr. Zarin also serves on the Executive Committee of the CAIA Hong Kong chapter. 

Mr. Zarin received his J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law and his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton.  He is also a CFA, CMT and CAIA charterholder, and has completed Certificate programs from Harvard Business School (Investment Management, Strategy).

Confirmed Speaker's bio's: 

William Kelly
CEO, CAIA Association 

William (Bill) J. Kelly, CEO of the CAIA Association, is an asset management industry veteran with extensive managerial and boardroom experience gained through successive CFO, COO, CEO and Independent Board director roles. He has led both start-ups and full scale global organizations. Bill is the former CEO of Robeco Investment Management, a subsidiary of the Netherlands-based global asset management organization with over $200 billion of assets under management, where he oversaw all aspects of United States business, including portfolio management, distribution and product development. He also was responsible for the strategic growth, introduction, and positioning of new managed products in the US and Europe, including alternative investments. Bill was a founder and former CEO of Boston Partners Asset Management, a self-funded partnership enterprise, which became one of the industry’s largest and most successful start-up money management organizations. Previous to that, he served as CFO of The Boston Company Asset Management and earlier in his career held various positions at Bear Stearns and was an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Shirley Xie
Partner, Greater China PE Funds Assurance Leader, PwC 

Shirley has more than 20 years of professional experience from Canada, Hong Kong and China.   She served a wide range of financial services client, with a special focus on the Investment Fund Management industry in the last 10 years in particular Venture Capital/Private Equity Funds and hedge funds. Shirley serves international and local clients.  Shirley leads the private equity fund assurance business in Greater China which is largely based in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.

Shirley has extensive experience in many areas of advisory for asset managers including internal controls review, due diligence and acquisition support in both Taiwan and the PRC, review of compliance with the Financial Resources Rules of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Ordinance,  assets under management certification work and preparation of compliance and procedural manual for asset management companies.  Shirley has been involved in every aspect of a fund operation such as fund set up investor, reporting model, fund accounting, fund audit, due diligence of portfolio companies, IPOs.

She has been involved in the listing of companies on the main board and the Growth Enterprise Market (“GEM”) of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong including the listing of bank and other Hong Kong and PRC companies.  She was also involved in very significant acquisitions by a GEM listed company and various due diligence exercises for mergers and acquisitions in the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Shirley was also involved in the liquidation of a hedge fund fraud case in Hong Kong.

Shirley has also been involved in a number of significant regulatory investigation projects for the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in the past.

Shirley is a frequent speaker at industry seminars and conferences and is an active member of the Hong Kong Venture Capital Private Equity Association, China Venture Capital Association, AIMA and other alternative investment management industry associations. 

Shirley actively maintains a continuous dialogue with the relevant government authorities in China to promote the asset management industry in China.

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Adam Furber
Counsel, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Adam is Counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in the Firm’s Hong Kong office and a member of the Firm's Corporate Department.  Adam's primary area of concentration is private investment funds, an area in which the Firm has a preeminent Asian and international presence. 

Adam regularly represents a broad range of alternative asset management firms in the formation and ongoing operation of their private equity, real estate and other private investment funds.  His recent experience includes the representation of sponsors such as Advantage Partners, Ascendent, Blackstone, BOCOM Asset Management, CBRE Global Investors, China-ASEAN, JD Capital, New Horizon, NewQuest and Yunfeng.  In addition, Adam has extensive experience with the structuring and negotiation of jointly controlled asset managers and other special situations.  He also has significant experience in structuring the portfolio investments of private equity funds. 

Adam has been recognized as one of the leading private equity funds lawyers in Asia by Chambers Asia (Chambers Asia 2013 – Asia’s Leading Lawyers for Business).  In addition, the Firm was recently named Investment Funds Team of the Year at Asian Legal Business’ 2013 Hong Kong Law Awards.

Prior to joining the Firm, Adam was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City.  He has lived in Brazil, China and Germany and has basic Mandarin skills and is fluent in Portuguese and German.  Adam has been based in Asia for more than 11 years.

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Javad Movsoumov
Executive Director, UBS Private Funds Group, Singapore

Javad joined the firm in early 2011. His responsibilities include origination, advisory work and distribution in Asia. Prior to joining UBS, Javad worked for four years at the fund placement arm of Jefferies & Co (formerly known as Helix Associates), where he lead origination, deal management and distribution efforts for the fund placement group in Asia. He started his career as a solicitor at private funds group of Clifford Chance in London, where he worked for six years and advised both fund managers and investors on legal aspects of private equity fund formation. Javad graduated from the London School of Economics with an undergraduate degree in Law.

For more information please contact Wendy on +852 3655 0568 or alternatively email any enquiries to wleung@caia.org

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