Ms. Elaine Li is a partner of Haiwen & Partners LLP based in Hong Kong. Ms. Elaine Li’s practice focuses on offshore funds formation and private equity investments. 

Ms. Li represents fund sponsors in forming various funds, including USD-denominated blind-pool funds, project funds, and USD and RMB denominated parallel funds. She also advises fund sponsors on their internal arrangements, operational compliance and downstream investments. She also represents different investors in connection with their investments in private equity funds.

Ms. Li’s recent experience includes acting for leading fund sponsors such as Alibaba, Ant, Bits x Bites, Challenjers Capital, ewpartners, Elite Capital, Harvest Fund, Hillhouse Capital, Hua Capital, Redefine Capital, Shixiang Capital, ShoreVest Capital and Temasek. Her other PRC-based clients include BOCGI, CCB Trust, CICC, Dongxing Securities, Surrich Internal Company Limite, ZGC International, certain other PRC banks and high-net-worth individuals.

Ms. Li’s recent representative projects include:

◆ representing Alibaba in its investments in several USD-denominated funds and RMB-denominated funds 

◆ representing BOCGI in its investments in several USD-denominated funds 

◆ representing Challenjers in setting up its first offshore private equity fund, with a target size of US$500 million

◆ representing Temasek in its first investment in a QFLP fund

◆ representing Source Code Capital in setting up a number of single project funds;

◆ representing Fountainhead Capital in setting up its first USD-denominated token fund;

◆ representing Dongxing Securities in setting up a Hong Kong Open-ended Fund Company and its three sub-funds;

◆ representing Hillhouse in setting up its USD and RMB denominated parallel funds, with a combined size of over RMB600 million 

◆ representing Hillhouse in its investments in two USD-denominated funds

◆ representing 3W Partners in setting up a single-project fund (with a total size of approximately US$50 million)

◆ representing CCB Trust in setting up around 60 single-project funds for a number of sizeable private equity investments

◆ representing CCB Trust in setting up its first mutual fund and second mutual fund

◆ representing Hua Capital in setting up a separately managed account fund

Ms. Li earned an LL.B. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, an LL.M. from Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Juris Doctor degree from City University of Hong Kong.  She is admitted to practice New York law.

Ms. Li is a native Mandarin speaker and is fluent in English.