Ogier in Hong Kong welcomes new funds and digital assets partner Dennis Li

Ogier has welcomed new partner Dennis Li to its award-winning investment funds practice in Hong Kong.

Dennis's practice focuses on fund formation and digital assets more widely. He advises investment managers and financial institutions throughout the entire lifecycle of their fund structures, from fund formation to downstream investments and divestments, ongoing maintenance and regulatory compliance, restructuring and dissolution.

He assists clients across a wide variety of funds, including hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds and cryptocurrency funds, virtual assets and tokenised funds.

Dennis also advises on structuring for token issuance, formation of decentralised autonomous organisations, tokenisation, registration and licensing requirements and other general regulatory compliance obligations and corporate matters in the fast-evolving virtual asset landscape in the Cayman Islands and the BVI.

"Dennis is a fantastic addition to our growing Investment Funds team in Hong Kong and will add particular strength and depth for us on the digital assets side of our practice. He draws on his strong legal background in international funds, and his invaluable experience working in-house, to provide clients with excellent practical and commercial support, " said Ogier's head of Investment Funds in Asia, Nicholas Plowman.

Before joining Ogier, Dennis worked for another offshore law firm. Dennis also had in-house experience at CCB International (Holdings) Limited, the investment banking arm of China Construction Bank, and at Huobi Technology Holdings Limited, a leading digital assets company.  Dennis trained at Simmons & Simmons in Hong Kong and completed a secondment at Credit Suisse during his traineeship.

Ogier's Investment Funds team in Hong Kong is now the largest dedicated offshore funds teams in Asia and advises some of the region's most high-profile investment managers. Ogier was named Best Offshore Law Firm at the HFM Asia Services Awards for the third consecutive year.