Sponsors

Adams Street Partners

Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with investments in more than thirty countries across five continents. Drawing on 45+ years of private markets experience, proprietary intelligence, and trusted relationships, Adams Street strives to generate actionable investment insights across market cycles. Adams Street is 100% employee-owned and has approximately $40 billion in assets under management. Adams Street has offices in Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo.

CDH Investments

Established in 2002, CDH Investments is one of the leading alternative investment fund managers focused on China today with over US$21 billion of assets under management, as of December 31, 2019. CDH was founded by WU Shangzhi, JIAO Shuge and four other investment professionals who worked together in the direct investment department of China International Capital Corporation beginning in 1995.

From its roots in private equity, CDH has expanded to become a diversified alternative asset management platform covering: Private Equity, Real Assets, Venture and Growth Capital, Mezzanine & Credit, Public Equities and Wealth Management. CDH has more than 150 investment professionals working in offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.  CDH has invested in more than 200 companies and has helped more than 70 companies successfully list on international and China’s domestic stock exchanges. As of 2017, these companies employ more than 1,500,000 people. Many of them are sector leaders, and, collectively, they play an important role in China’s economy.

CDH’s core principle is to create value for all of our partners, including investors and portfolio companies. We continually strive to embody this principle and make it the basis for all of our decisions. We maintain close cooperative partnerships with over 100 international and local institutional investors.

CDH Investments has established an unparalleled network of relationships with China’s leading management teams.  Our investment experience and knowledge of China’s domestic economy allow us to be ideal partners for both investors and companies.

CDH Investments strives to become the most respected alternative asset management platform in the Asia region.

Centurium Capital

Centurium Capital is a leading private equity investment firm in China. With best-in-class domain knowledge and sector resources, Centurium Capital primarily focuses on investing into China‘s consumer, service and healthcare sectors. Its investment thesis are built around its core strategy of “invest to transform”. Centurium Capital seeks to invest in control or significant minority private equity stakes with a particular focus on in-depth operation engagement to improve efficiency and solve structural deficiencies to create long term shareholder value.

The Partners and investment team members have a diversified and complementary background spanning across private equity, corporate finance, merger & acquisitions, corporate management, and operation and strategic consulting. With best-in-class domain knowledge and sector resources, the team brings both investment expertise and operational skills to support the long-term growth of the portfolio companies.

The limited partners of Centurium Capital include some of the world’s top institutional investors such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and FOFs. The investments are made through two RMB funds and one US dollar funds, and current portfolio companies include Luckin Coffee (NASDAQ: LK), China Biologic Products (NASDAQ: CBPO), LOHO and Happy Kids Education.

Coller Capital

Coller Capital is one of the world’s leading investors in private equity’s secondary market. The firm acquires interests in private equity funds and portfolios of private companies from their original owners.

Founded in 1990, the firm is headquartered in London, and has offices in New York and Hong Kong. Coller’s multinational investment team – the world’s largest dedicated to secondaries – has a truly global reach.

In December 2015, the firm closed Coller International Partners VII, with capital commitments of $7.15 billion and backing from approximately 170 of the world’s leading institutional investors.

Green Harbor Investment

Green Harbor Investment (or “Green Harbor”) is a private equity fund that focuses on investment in the consumption-driven sectors. Since its inception in early 2015, Green Harbor has achieved a total AUM of nearly $1 billion across the USD and RMB funds.

We strive to invest in good businesses with excellent management teams and work alongside them to create value and bring success to the companies. All of our portfolio companies are either IPO-listed or about to go public, bringing significant returns to our LPs.

Harneys

Harneys is a global offshore law and fiduciary services firm with 12 offices spanning the world.  We are trusted legal advisors to an international client base including all of the world’s top 30 international law firms, 18 of the world’s 20 largest banks and financial institutions. Our multilingual team works alongside professional advisors to provide legal, corporate and fiduciary services relating to British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Anguilla and Bermuda law.

Our lawyers offer the full spectrum of offshore advice across litigation and restructuring, banking and finance, capital markets and investment funds, corporate and commercial, and private wealth and trusts.  We have been the world’s leading firm for BVI law advice for decades – we helped to write the BVI’s commercial law and consistently have more BVI legal practitioners than any other firm worldwide. We are renowned globally for our Cayman Islands funds expertise and the structuring of downstream corporate transactions for private equity and venture capital funds.  We also undertake all aspects of litigation in the BVI and Cayman Islands courts, including shareholder disputes, fraud, asset tracing and contentious trusts.

Our associated corporate and fiduciary services business, Harneys Fiduciary, delivers the full range of corporate administration, funds, trust and compliance services to many of the world's leading law firms, corporations, financial institutions and private clients.  Our fiduciary team operates across key onshore and offshore locations including the BVI, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and New Zealand, and has earned us a reputation for excellence worldwide.

HIKE Capital

HIKE Capital, a Chinese founders fund, was established in Dec. 2015, co-founded by Mark Yang and Anna Xu.

Mark is also the CEO of Chehaoduo Group, founder of Ganji.com. Anna is the founder of NetEase News app.

As a founders fund, many of our venture partners and counselors are former founders with domain expertise, including the founder of Gaode Map and co-founder of Dianping.com (HKEx:03690). We consistently back visionary founders through all phases of growth and provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and sources they need in the technology ecosystem.

We currently managing an early-stage fund and a growth fund, covering extensively from series pre-A to series C, focusing on consumption upgrade and technological innovation. As a unicorn hunter, HIKE Capital invested in Guazi, Chehejia, FlashEx, RELX, Baby English, Huohua, and ZBox.

InCloudCounsel

InCloudCounsel is the leading technology and services provider of contract automation and intelligence for many of the world’s biggest and most innovative companies modernizing the contract process, providing a smarter solution for processing and tracking contracts. We combine data-driven technology with a distributed network of expert lawyers to improve the quality, speed, and costs associated with managing corporate legal documents. Between our legal expertise and AI-powered software, our complete solution reduces turnaround time, lowers costs, saves time, and provides scalability.

 Our newest solution, called Insight, allows fund managers to organize and actively manage obligations to their investors across all of their funds in one centralized platform. Insight removes the complexity of compliance across obligations and provides the ability to align around quick and easy analysis of obligation data.

InnoVision Capital

InnoVision Capital is a leading Mid-market private equity investor focusing on the consumer and services sectors in China. The Firm was founded in 2016 by Lane Zhao, who previously spent over 10 years with KKR Asia and several years with Morgan Stanley Private Equity prior to that. InnoVision brings together a team with domestic and international experience in operations, management consulting, investment banking and government relations; these complementary skillsets and collective experience helps the firm make better decisions and have a broader impact on portfolio companies.

The Firm invests in consumer and services businesses in China, leveraging the increasingly affluent consumers and growing regions as China rapidly urbanizes, mass adoption of technology, and rising income and demand, where it can add significant value through InnoVision’s active ownership approach and its extensive industry and financial networks. As a result, the team, throughout their careers has successfully invested in 1 portfolio company that achieved a valuation of over USD 100 billion, 8 companies with valuations over USD 10 billion and 30 companies with valuations over USD 1 billion (Unicorns).

Jinyi Capital

Jinyi Capital is a leading new generation private equity firm focused on new consumption and industrial upgrade themes in China. The firm is co-founded by executives from leading global firms such as Carlyle and TPG, with over 40 years of private equity experience collectively amongst its founding partners.

At its inception, Jinyi Capital raised one of the largest first time PE funds in the RMB market and is backed by a uniquely vast and powerful network of local partners, including some of the most influential industry giants and entrepreneurs, business conglomerates, financial institutions, fund of funds and school endowments. As an aspirational new generation firm, Jinyi Capital is firmly committed to its strategy of research-driven value investing and high impact value creation, and the empowerment of industry champions to create superior returns as well as social value.

Jinyi Capital has been consistently ranked by local PE/VC industry media and business publications as one of the leading private equity firms in China.

Lighthouse Capital

Lighthouse Capital is a next-generation boutique investment bank focused on strategic partnerships in China. Founded in September 2014, the company today centers on offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, with professional service teams of a total of nearly 50 employees. Lighthouse Capital’s key focus is in the TMT sector (technology, media, and telecommunications), with an emphasis on investment banking, investment management, and enterprise strategy consulting.

Since launching in 2014, Lighthouse Capital has generated upward of 70 major private equity transactions for a total transaction value of more than 6 billion US dollars. Notable clients include Kuaishou, Bilibili, QuTouTiao, Zhihu, Lalamove, Shan Song, Kuikan Manhua, Maimai, Weltmeister, and Hellobike. With a strong emphasis on systematic, scientific industry research methods and strategic insight capability, and a craftsman-like spirit of professionalism in executive services, Lighthouse is committed to serving the leading entrepreneurs of the new economy as a partner in both strategy and investment.

In addition to its work with leading startups, Lighthouse Capital manages four private equity funds totaling 150 million US dollars, with a focus on established industry leaders in mid- to late-stage development for the emerging economy. The company is committed to serving the top 1% of young enterprises in the TMT sector by empowering their growth through unparalleled financial advising services.

NewQuest Capital Partners

NewQuest Capital Partners is a leading secondaries private equity platform focused on the Asia-Pacific region. The firm specializes in providing alternative liquidity solutions to private equity asset owners on a direct and indirect basis. It acquires private equity positions directly through portfolio and single asset transactions and can also partner with incumbent managers to provide liquidity to limited partners. 

The firm was established in 2011 from the spin out of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Asian Private Equity team. NewQuest currently manages four funds with aggregate capital commitments of over US$2.48 billion.

Vitalbridge

Established on October 9, 2019, Vitalbridge is committed to discovering China's most dynamic entrepreneurs of vitality in the next decade. Jointly, Vitalbridge grows with them to create long-term value.

As a new generation of thesis-driven venture capital fund in China, we are entrusted with domestic and overseas long-term funds, which mainly include top institutional investors and industrial capital such as industry leaders, Internet entrepreneurs, founders of domestic and overseas listed companies, overseas FoFs and family offices.

We appreciate and worship Vitality. It's our vision and mission to be Bridge of Vitality and to explore the infinite explosive power. Together with the entrepreneurial experience, industrial insights and resources, and long-term PE capital in the Vitalbridge eco-system, we are committed to the long-term development of our enterprises.

China is transitioning from scale economies to quality economies, and Vitalbridge approaches this shift from “demographic structure" and "technological innovation" perspectives. Vitalbridge focuses on scientific and technological services in education, healthcare, and enterprise services. Aiming to support the upgrade of “New Service” enabled by technologies, we invest in early and growth stage startups with single investment from US$ 3 million to 30 million.

Cooley

Cooley LLP is an international law firm representing clients in a wide range of industries from our offices in Asia, Europe and the United States. With more than 1100 lawyers, Cooley has the range and expertise to serve clients of all sizes to seize opportunities in today's global marketplace.

Our dedication to China's fund industry is unparalleled and unrivaled by any other law firm. Cooley has been advising on China-related matters over three decades, dating back to 1989, when the firm advised on the formation of the first institutional venture capital fund investing in China. Today, we are counsel to more than 500 private investment fund organizations worldwide, including more than 80 fund managers with their primary operations in China and numerous other managers outside of the PRC making investments in portfolio companies in China. We form considerably more dollar-denominated China venture capital and growth equity funds in dollar terms than any other law firm worldwide. We have a team of more than 40 specialist fund formation lawyers and dozens of other practitioners dedicated to serving our clients headquartered and doing business in China. Multiple members of our team are Mandarin-speaking, Chinese native fund formation specialists who assist our China funds clients and their investors in both USD and RMB fund formation matters. In Asia, Cooley has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, and works closely with Cooley’s United States and European offices to serve fund clients worldwide.

As a full service global law firm, we regularly assist our China fund clients and their portfolio companies with complex mergers, acquisitions and disposition transactions, a wide variety of private financing and capital markets transactions, public company disclosure issues, share distributions, local and cross-border intellectual property issues, licensing transactions, joint ventures, as well as supply and distribution arrangements, among other matters.