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Jeremy Ong 是 Baker McKenzie 香港辦事處的合夥人，負責領導香港的房地產投資信託基金業務。他在為房地產投資信託基金的成立、收購、出售、股本/債務資本集資活動和負債管理活動提供法律諮詢服務方面擁有超過 15 年的經驗，並為幾乎所有香港最大的房地產投資信託基金交易提供法律諮詢服務。.

Jeremy 被 Legal 500 譽為 REITs（投資基金；房地產）兩大領域的「下一代合夥人」，他的執業團隊也被 Chambers 譽為「值得信賴的 REITs 顧問」，「經常受託協助客戶進行首次公開募股（IPO）和資本募集」。.

Tom Gaffney is the Regional Managing Director of CBRE Hong Kong, with oversight for all of CBRE's business activities. Based in Hong Kong, his primary responsibilities include operational management of all major business lines, client relationship management, engagement programs, personnel development and talent acquisition for CBRE. As the leader of our business in Hong Kong, Tom works with a diverse array of teams and stakeholders to develop and implement CBRE's strategy. As an advocate for diversity and inclusion, he is committed to making the CBRE Hong Kong office the workplace of choice for its people through innovative initiatives.

Tom joined CBRE in 2016 as Managing Director for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. He has more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate. His experience spans from working with both service providers and clients, with broad experience across a variety of executive positions in investment, asset management, to commercial transactions and advisory. More than 20 years of Tom's career has been in Asia Pacific, including Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore and Thailand. He crossed from JLL where he held the position of Head of Retail, Hong Kong and China and was a member of its Global Retail Board and co-chairman of Retail for Asia Pacific.

From 2006 to 2011, Tom worked for Hongkong Land in Commercial and Retail Asset Management, holding positions in Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand. Originally based in Singapore where he was responsible for the regional retail asset management and leasing of Hongkong Land's South Asia retail portfolio, he later served as General Manager and Country Head of Thailand and was responsible for the management and leasing of their luxury shopping mall, Gaysorn.

Keith joined CBRE in 2021 as the Executive Director of Capital Advisors for Hong Kong, focuses on working with CBRE Hong Kong and regional Capital Advisors and Capital Markets teams to further develop the Capital Advisors business - a financial services arm of CBRE primarily advising investors on structuring real estate transactions. With his industry know-how and strong background in investment banking, Keith helps further strengthen CBRE's in-house capital advisory capabilities by zeroing in on three core offerings, including equity and debt placements, principal investments and M&A activities.

Keith has over 10 years of professional experience in real estate industry. Prior to joining CBRE, Keith was the CEO and Founder of Solace International, a company specialized in principal investments and management consultancy. From 2015 to 2020, Keith worked for Macquarie Group where he was responsible for buy-side mandates to deploy equity into renewable energy infrastructure projects, in addition to implementing M&A, Equity Capital Markets (ECM) and Debt Capital Markets (DCM) activity for a number of established infrastructure developers across Asia. Prior to Macquarie, Keith worked with Colliers International and JLL, respectively.

Martijn de Lange is a Managing Director of BMS Group. Martijn has over 15 years of combined insurance, legal and tax experience and advises private equity and corporate investors on M&A and tax insurance. Prior to joining BMS, Martijn worked for Aon, being the first tax insurance broker in Asia. Before that, he worked as a tax lawyer in Europe and as in-house counsel for an MNC.

Tiffany Wong is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Restructuring Practice in Hong Kong. She brings more than 20 years of experience in restructuring, insolvency and dispute resolution. Ms. Wong advises borrowers and lenders in consensual restructuring and acts as a court-appointed officer in insolvency situations and disputes.

With experience spanning international and Chinese restructuring regimes, Ms. Wong advises clients in challenging cross-border projects involving complex structures across multiple jurisdictions.

Ms. Wong is one of the receivers of the YF Life Centre (formerly China Evergrande Centre) appointed by a group of syndicate lenders. Ms. Wong is also a Joint & Several Liquidator of Genting Hong Kong Ltd., a cruise and entertainment operator headquartered in Asia. She participated in the restructuring of Luckin Coffee Inc., as one of the Joint Provisional Liquidators following its admission of accounting fraud. After multiple regulatory investigations in the US and the PRC and a loss of investor confidence, Ms. Wong and her team in Hong Kong, Cayman Islands and the People’s Republic of China helped the company’s management reinforce internal systems and supported an operational turnaround and negotiations with creditors. The scheme of arrangement was approved unanimously by the voting creditors, marking a successful restructuring in less than two years.

Ms. Wong has led numerous restructuring cases in China, including Shanghai Chaori Solar’s, and advised 34 Chinese banks on preserving their interests in a real-estate borrower with $2.5 billion offshore bonds and $7.6 billion in onshore debts. Ms. Wong has also acted as a trustee of the estates of bankrupt individuals and as court-appointed administrator of the estates of high-net-worth deceased or mentally incapacitated individuals.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Wong was a Partner and Head of Insolvency at KPMG China.

Ms. Wong earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in business management and professional accounting from Queensland University of Technology in Australia.

• Yvette Chan是Alvarez & Marsal香港辦事處的董事總經理。她擁有20年的稅務諮詢經驗，專長於中國內地和香港的稅務事宜。.
• 陳女士協助客戶進行投資，包括交易架構設計以及製定節稅策略，以支援其在大中華區內外的首次綠地投資或併購業務營運和安排。此外，陳女士也就眾多稅務架構、稅務盡職調查、稅務模型審查、併購、公司重組、IPO前重組、租賃和稅務合規項目提供諮詢服務，尤其擅長從稅務角度建構併購和金融交易架構。.
• 陳女士為眾多行業的客戶提供服務，包括房地產、私募股權和投資基金、基礎設施等。.
• Yvette的房地產基金客戶包括Actis房地產基金、Angelo Gordon、貝萊德、黑石集團、加拿大退休基金投資公司（CPPIB）、廣汽集團、凱龍集團、麥格理房地產基金、摩根士丹利房地產基金、PAG集團、碧桂園（Paladin）、鳳凰房地產投資公司、Quadreal、SSG Ares、TCC Capital等。 Yvette也為其他公司和家族辦公室提供有關其房地產營運和交易的諮詢服務。.
• 陳女士曾與他人合著多篇關於中國稅收的文章，發表於《國際稅務評論》、《歐洲貨幣》、《中國稅務情報》和《亞太稅務雜誌》。她也曾為公司內部學員講授中國稅收課程，並在外部研討會上發表演講，尤其關注非居民對入境投資的稅務問題，以及對出境投資的中國稅收問題和考量。.
• 在加入 A&M 之前，陳女士曾在倫敦的畢馬威會計師事務所工作 5 年，並在香港辦事處工作超過 9 年，最近擔任併購稅務團隊的合夥人。.
• 陳女士畢業於牛津大學，獲得數學科學學士和碩士學位。她是英格蘭及威爾斯特許會計師協會資深會員，香港會計師公會會員，英國特許稅務學會會員，以及香港稅務學會會員。她還持有特許金融分析師（CFA）資格。.

Cathy Lai is the Business Development Lead of BMS Asia responsible for driving the firm’s business growth in Asia. Cathy has over 13 years insurance broking and advisory experience with 8 years in M&A insurance solutions and 5 years in general insurance. Prior to joining BMS, Cathy worked for global insurance broking firms leading the M&A insurance practice in Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as in a senior position in the global client practice. She specializes in insurance solutions for multinational conglomerates, banks and private equity clients ranging from operational insurance placement, insurance due diligence/review, lender’s insurance advisory to transactional risk solutions.