Vivien Teu is the principal and managing partner of Vivien Teu & Co LLP, a boutique Hong Kong law firm established in association with Llinks Law Offices, a leading PRC firm.

Vivien has more than fifteen years experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer specialising in the financial services sector, funds and wealth management.

Vivien carries diverse legal practice experience with top tier and magic circle firms in the areas of tax, trusts, banking and financial services, investment funds, securities regulatory and corporate commercial matters.  Based in Greater China including Hong Kong and Shanghai in the past decade, Vivien has focused on investment funds, asset management, and the securities and financial services markets and regulatory framework in this region, with in-depth knowledge especially on the legal and regulatory issues relevant to investment funds and managers establishing or operating in Hong Kong or China and on investments in China and Hong Kong.

Prior to establishing Vivien Teu & Co, Vivien was most recently senior in-house counsel at a well-known global investment management firm, with responsibilities over the legal and regulatory affairs of the firm’s investment management businesses in the Greater China region, including across business lines of retail securities investment funds, mandatory provident fund schemes, China securities investment fund joint ventures, private equity funds and real estate investment funds, as well as the firm’s institutional investment management and advisory businesses.

Vivien is admitted as a solicitor of Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and of England and Wales.