Amanda Liu | Hong Kong | Hogan Lovells

Amanda Liu

Senior Associate Corporate & Finance

Languages

English, Mandarin

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Amanda focuses her practice on private investment funds, with particular emphasis on private equity, private credit and hedge funds. She advises asset managers on all stages of fund formation, from structuring to distribution, and restructuring, and also advises financial institutions on regulatory compliance matters.

Amanda is also experienced in fund co-investments, fund secondaries, GP-led transactions and carried interest arrangements, and regularly represents professional investors in connection with their investments into various types of private funds.

Representative experience

A Korean-backed private equity manager on the formation of various private equity and private credit funds, co-investment vehicles and carried interest arrangement*

A PRC insurance company on the formation of various private credit funds, fund-of-funds and co-investment vehicles*

An Asian insurance company as purchaser of a portfolio of private equity investments in a GP-led transaction by a PRC private equity manager*

A Middle East sovereign in connection with its investment in a global infrastructure fund*

Various sovereign entities and financial institutions on their investments in funds managed by leading European and US asset managers, including CVC, HarbourVest, Ares, Cheyne and Brookfield*

 

Various high net worth individuals, family offices and institutional investors in connection with their investment in private equity and private credit funds*

Fund counsel to a private credit fund with a U.S./Cayman master-feeder fund structure managed by one of the largest Asian private credit managers*

Fund counsel to 9 hedge funds of a leading Chinese-based hedge fund manager*

Fund counsel to 11 hedge funds of a renowned state owned Chinese hedge fund manager*

Counsel to a Chinese hedge fund manager on the formation of its flagship fund and negotiations on seed investment*

Counsel to various European and US fund managers on cross-border distribution, marketing of funds in Hong Kong and employee distribution schemes*

Hong Kong counsel in various global acquisitions of alternative investment firms*

*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.

Credentials

Education
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, City University of Hong Kong, 2017
  • Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, The College of Law in Sydney, Australia, 2015
  • B.Com, LL.B., Finance, The University of New South Wales, with Distinction, 2014
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Hong Kong
  • New South Wales