Michael Wong Joins Dechert’s Financial Services Practice in Hong Kong
January 23, 2017
HONG KONG - Dechert LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today the expansion of its Financial Services practice with the addition of Michael P. Wong. He joins the firm in Hong Kong as a partner and was most recently at K&L Gates.
“We are very pleased to welcome Michael to Dechert,” said Peter Astleford, co-chair of the firm’s Financial Services group. “Michael has already established a noteworthy and growing practice at his previous firm for global and PRC clients. By moving to our platform, we all anticipate that Michael’s and our clients will get a more integrated and better global service than ever before.”
Wong’s practice focuses on fund formation, fund investments and retail fund registration. He covers a broad range of investment funds, including hedge, private equity, debt, real estate and venture capital. In addition, Wong has extensive experience advising on financial services regulatory matters such as licensing, compliance, marketing and distribution of financial products, disclosure of shareholding interests and market misconduct. Wong is recommended in the area of investment funds by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2017 edition), which described him as “an excellent, efficient and professional lawyer, with strong industry knowledge and high integrity”.
“With an extensive global reach and solid local expertise, Dechert’s global offering in financial services is second to none” Wong said. “It is a great honor to join such a well-integrated team of talented and forward thinking lawyers. I am confident that my clients will benefit from the platform available here and I look forward to growing the firm's financial services practice further with my fellow partners.”
In the Chambers Asia-Pacific guide released earlier this month, Dechert was top-ranked as a Band 1 law firm for Investment Funds: Hedge Funds. The guide noted that the firm’s Asia Financial Services practice is “Highly regarded in Hong Kong and Singapore for its knowledge of hedge and private equity funds, on which it advises a range of blue-chip fund managers.” Its registered funds practice also has “marked experience acting on mutual and retail funds mandates,” and the group is “well known for its prominence on innovative transactions, often involving complex regulatory issues." The guide also recognized Dechert in several other categories including Investment Funds: Private Equity and Registered Funds in Asia-Pacific Region; Investment Funds: Hedge Funds and Registered Funds in China and Investment Funds: International in Singapore.
Dechert's financial services practice is comprised of some 200 lawyers practicing in 16 offices across the United States, Europe, Middle East and Asia advising on matters with complicated cross-border elements and varying legal structures. The firm is a legal adviser of choice for 18 of the 20 largest global asset management firms.
About Dechert
Dechert is a global specialist law firm focused on sectors with the greatest complexities and highest regulatory demands. We deliver practical commercial insight and judgment to our clients’ most important matters. Nothing stands in the way of giving clients the best of the firm’s entrepreneurial energy and seamless collaboration in a way that is distinctively Dechert.
“We are very pleased to welcome Michael to Dechert,” said Peter Astleford, co-chair of the firm’s Financial Services group. “Michael has already established a noteworthy and growing practice at his previous firm for global and PRC clients. By moving to our platform, we all anticipate that Michael’s and our clients will get a more integrated and better global service than ever before.”
Wong’s practice focuses on fund formation, fund investments and retail fund registration. He covers a broad range of investment funds, including hedge, private equity, debt, real estate and venture capital. In addition, Wong has extensive experience advising on financial services regulatory matters such as licensing, compliance, marketing and distribution of financial products, disclosure of shareholding interests and market misconduct. Wong is recommended in the area of investment funds by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2017 edition), which described him as “an excellent, efficient and professional lawyer, with strong industry knowledge and high integrity”.
“With an extensive global reach and solid local expertise, Dechert’s global offering in financial services is second to none” Wong said. “It is a great honor to join such a well-integrated team of talented and forward thinking lawyers. I am confident that my clients will benefit from the platform available here and I look forward to growing the firm's financial services practice further with my fellow partners.”
In the Chambers Asia-Pacific guide released earlier this month, Dechert was top-ranked as a Band 1 law firm for Investment Funds: Hedge Funds. The guide noted that the firm’s Asia Financial Services practice is “Highly regarded in Hong Kong and Singapore for its knowledge of hedge and private equity funds, on which it advises a range of blue-chip fund managers.” Its registered funds practice also has “marked experience acting on mutual and retail funds mandates,” and the group is “well known for its prominence on innovative transactions, often involving complex regulatory issues." The guide also recognized Dechert in several other categories including Investment Funds: Private Equity and Registered Funds in Asia-Pacific Region; Investment Funds: Hedge Funds and Registered Funds in China and Investment Funds: International in Singapore.
Dechert's financial services practice is comprised of some 200 lawyers practicing in 16 offices across the United States, Europe, Middle East and Asia advising on matters with complicated cross-border elements and varying legal structures. The firm is a legal adviser of choice for 18 of the 20 largest global asset management firms.
About Dechert
Dechert is a global specialist law firm focused on sectors with the greatest complexities and highest regulatory demands. We deliver practical commercial insight and judgment to our clients’ most important matters. Nothing stands in the way of giving clients the best of the firm’s entrepreneurial energy and seamless collaboration in a way that is distinctively Dechert.
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