Tiang & Partners, a Hong Kong firm that works closely with PwC’s global legal network, has hired Gaven Cheong as head of its investment funds practice from Simmons & Simmons.
Cheong’s previous employers include Herbert Smith Freehills, Clifford Chance, and Sidley Austin. He joins Tiang a couple of months after the firm hired Chiang Ling Li as its IP head.
With over 15 years of experience in funds, Cheong’s practice focuses on the establishment and structuring of various collective investment schemes including hedge funds, real estate funds, and private equity arrangements, and the provision of regulatory advice in relation to investment management activity generally.
Cheong also has experience in crypto fund formation and regulatory, having helped obtain the first regulatory licences in Hong Kong for the management of a fund of crypto funds and a pure virtual assets fund.
With Cheong’s arrival, Tiang now has nine partners.
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