Alan Wong 黄伟麟

Alan’s practice focuses on the establishment and structuring of private equity funds, hedge funds and crypto funds in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands, as well as their regulatory compliance and downstream transactions.  In addition to advising on traditional and alternative asset classes, Alan leads Ogier's Technology and Web3 team in Asia. He has extensive experience in structuring investment funds with blockchain and Web3-related strategies. His clients include some of the most well-known names within the crypto native community, as well as some of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms and their venture arms and key executives.

Background and experience

Alan is a Group Partner (BVI) based in Hong Kong, and leads Ogier's Technology and Web3 team in Asia. Alan's practice focuses on the establishment and structuring of open-ended funds and closed-ended funds in the Cayman islands and the British Virgin Islands, covering a wide range of strategies, including crypto, blockchain and Web3, private equity, venture capital, buyout, pre-IPO, cornerstone and IPO investments, credit, and real estate, as well as their regulatory compliance and downstream transactions. Alan also advises on the structuring of DAOs (decentralised autonomous organisations) and DeFi (decentralised finance) projects and token issuances.

Alan is the only person that is recognised as a Rising Star Partner by IFLR1000, 2024 in both the offshore investment funds and private equity funds categories in Hong Kong, after having been named a Rising Star for three consecutive years.

Alan is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong (non-practising), England and Wales and the British Virgin Islands, and a registered foreign lawyer regulated by the Law Society of Hong Kong. Before joining Ogier, Alan worked as an associate in Jones Day, where he focused on capital market transactions, including advising on Hong Kong IPOs, takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity fund-raising and other general corporate matters, and advising private equity funds and multinational clients on their cross-border investments.

Alan leads Ogier's Technology and Web3 team in Asia and is a member of AIMA's cross-sector Digital Assets Working Group in the Asia-Pacific Region. He specialises in structuring funds engaged in the sector including funds that pursue crypto, blockchain and Web3-related strategies, hold digital assets and cryptocurrencies and invest in blockchain businesses. Alan also advises the launch of tokenised fund structures, securities token offerings (STOs), and generally on tokenisation of real-world assets (RWA), and the related regulatory compliance matters in the Cayman Islands and BVI. His clients include some of the most well-known names within the crypto native community, including Pacific Waterdrip, Matrixport, Matrixport Ventures, Ryze Labs (formerly known as Sino Global), Old Fashion Research (founded by former CFO of Binance), SevenX Ventures, Kryptanium Capital, TON Foundation, TON Ventures, SNZ, IOSG, Ausvic Capital, as well as some of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms and their venture arms and key executives. Alan led the Ogier team in advising the launch of Pacific Waterdrip Digital Asset Fund SPC in the Cayman Islands, which was the first crypto fund launch in the market by a PRC SOE in collaboration with Waterdrip Capital, and the offering of the PRINCE tokens, the first real estate STO in Hong Kong approved by the regulator.

Alan is also part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team. He specialises in (a) fund formation and capital raising, including (i) structuring advice and fund formation, (ii) advising on, and forming, co-investment vehicles, AIVs, parallel funds, employee incentive schemes, (iii) advising on ongoing fund operation (including regulatory compliance), (iv) LP advisory services, and (v) downstream corporate advisory work.

Alan's achievements (including his experience prior to joining Ogier) include:

• advising a leading European-Asian private equity firm focused on industrial and medical technology investments in the European and North American mid-market on its various downstream acquisitions and exits
• assisting various private equity firms based in China in the launch of their first USD-denominated private equity fund based in Cayman
• assisting Hammer Capital in its launch of Hammer Capital Opportunities Fund LP, a member of an investor consortium with Tencent Holdings (HKSE: 700) in the US$1.1 billion take-private of Bitauto Holdings Limited (NYSE: BITA)
• assisting ORI Capital in the launch of ORI Healthcare Fund II, its second healthcare-centered venture capital fund with a target close of US$400 million
• assisting a top-tier Korea-based financial group in Asia in the launch of two Cayman Islands private equity funds focusing on growth stage entities engaged in TMT, healthcare and consumer sectors in China, and the establishment of a BVI investment fund serving as its proprietary vehicle for investing in the group's ETF products worldwide
• assisting China's first agrifood tech venture capital firm in the launch of its US100 million Cayman Islands investment fund focusing on transformative agrifood technology
• assisting Harvest Capital Management and Harvest Global Capital Investments on multiple Cayman Islands fund launches
• assisting a venture capital firm focused on the healthcare industry in the launch of a Cayman Islands investment fund for subscribing high-yield debenture issued by a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
• assisting New Frontier Health in the launch of multiple Cayman Islands investment funds as participants of the investor consortium in the US$1.582 billion take-private of New Frontier Health Corporation (NYSE: NFH)
• advising on the launch of a US$600 million hedge fund and its listing on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX), which was the very first CSX listed fund managed by a Chinese manager in recent years
• assisting Epivision Equity Partners in the launch of a Cayman Islands healthcare-centered venture capital fund with a target close of US$350 million
• assisting a global private equity fund manager focusing on investments in semiconductor and other high-tech industries in the launch of multiple buyout funds in the Cayman Islands
• assisting Alta Capital Real Estate in the launch of a US$50 million Cayman Islands real estate fund, a hospitality fund with a focus on sustainability and wellness
• assisting a top-tier alternative investment firm based in Korea focusing on venture capital, private equity and infrastructure in the launch of two clean energy funds in the Cayman Islands
• advising the joint liquidators on the liquidation of Three Arrows Capital
• assisting Old Fashion Research (founded by former CFO of Binance) in the launch of its US$100 million fund focusing on investments in various blockchain ecosystems, including through early-stage incubation, venture capital investments, merger and acquisition and other special situation investments
• advising CPIC Investment Management, part of the China Pacific Insurance Group, on the Cayman law aspects of its collaboration with Waterdrip Capital on the launch of Pacific Waterdrip Digital Asset Fund SPC and its sub-funds, focusing on seed and private placement rounds of early-stage blockchain projects, covering fields such as blockchain infrastructure, decentralised applications, Web3 software-as-a-service tools, metaverse and NFT application as well as native tokens of public chains with PoS as the consensus mechanism
• advising on Hong Kong's first real estate fund STO (PRINCE tokens)
• advising one of the largest quantitative trading firms in Asia in launching its US$1 billion cryptofund
• advising a crypto investment veteran on the launch of a family office with an AUM of US$400 million
• advising on the launch of various tokenised money market funds, STOs backed by money market instruments and stablecoins
• assisting in the establishments of various cryptofunds with a focus on cryptocurrency and other blockchain investments
• assisting various private equity firms and IPO applicants with the formation of employee incentive schemes and carried interest plans

Alan obtained his LLM (Corporate Law) degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2014, and his LLB degree from The University of Hong Kong in 2012.

Admitted in:
2016 – Hong Kong (non-practising)
2023 – England and Wales
2024 – British Virgin Islands