Janice Bok

Janice Bok

Senior Associate

高级律师

高级律师

About

简历

Janice is a senior associate in the corporate team in Carey Olsen's Hong Kong office. She advises on a range of investment fund and corporate matters, including cross-border M&A projects, global reorganisations, and fund formation.

Janice also advises funds and other financial services providers on global regulatory requirements and reporting obligations, including but not limited to: registration/authorisation/licensing requirements, marketing restrictions, shareholding disclosure, climate-related requirements, AML issues, and other regulatory risk management (including data privacy, data storage and outsourcing issues). She has handled regulatory investigations on anti-competitive behaviour, market abuse, financial and non-financial misconduct, transaction reporting breaches, and general commercial litigation.

With her full professional proficiency in Japanese, Janice has experience reviewing Japanese legal and regulatory documents and handling business relationships with large Japanese banks, securities firms, and insurance firms.

Janice 是 Carey Olsen 香港办公室企业团队的高级律师。她就一系列投资基金和企业事务提供咨询,包括跨境并购项目、全球重组和基金设立。

Janice 还就全球监管要求和报告义务,为基金和其他金融服务提供商提供咨询,包括但不限于:注册/授权/许可要求、营销限制、股权披露、气候相关要求、反洗钱问题和其他监管风险管理(包括数据隐私、数据存储和外包问题)。她还处理过有关反竞争行为、市场滥用、金融和非金融不当行为、交易报告违规,以及一般商业诉讼的监管调查。

Janice 拥有精湛的日语能力,曾审阅日本法律和监管文件,并处理与日本大型银行、证券公司和保险公司的业务关系。

Career

Prior to joining Carey Olsen, Janice was trained in the financial regulation group at a magic circle firm based in London in both contentious and non-contentious work, and she subsequently worked in the Funds and Investment Management team in another magic circle firm in Hong Kong after her relocation back to Hong Kong in 2022.

Janice also gained experience managing large-scale international projects while on secondment to US and UK banking clients during her time with one of the big four firms in both London and Hong Kong. She is also admitted as a solicitor in the Cayman Islands and is enrolled as a Registered Associate in the Supreme Court of Bermuda

职业

加入 Carey Olsen 之前,Janice 在位于伦敦的魔术圈律师事务所的金融监管组接受过争讼和非争讼工作的实习,随后于 2022 年调回香港后,在香港另一家魔术圈律师事务所的基金及投资管理团队工作。

Janice 在伦敦和香港魔术圈律师事务所就职期间,曾借调至美国和英国的银行客户,由此获得了管理大型国际项目的经验。她还在开曼群岛获得律师资格,并在百慕大最高法院注册为注册律师。

Relevant experience

  • Acting as lead counsel to GBM Asset Management Tokyo in connection with establishing the first 'home grown’ multimanager platforms in the Japanese market. Our role including all aspects of the fund’s structuring and registration, and also obtaining the manager’s licensing application (under the Securities Investment Business Act) in the Cayman Islands, while working alongside Japanese co-counsel in relation to the Manager’s discretionary investment manager licence in Japan.
  • Advised Marunouchi Innovation Partners Co., Ltd., a company jointly established by Mitsubishi Corporation, MUFG Bank Ltd. and Pavilion Private Equity Co., Ltd. on the group's ongoing regulatory reporting obligations to the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.
  • Advised a fund group on implications of breach notices issued by the Department for International Tax Cooperation (DITC) in the Cayman Islands and handled correspondence with the DITC.
  • Advised on establishment and launch of closed-end funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands.

相关经验

  • 担任GBM资产管理东京分部的首席法律顾问,协助在日本市场建立首批“本土”多管理平台。我们的职责包括基金的结构设计和注册各方面,以及在开曼群岛获得经理人根据《证券投资业务法》获得许可申请,同时与日本共同律师合作,处理经理在日本的酌情投资管理人执照事宜。为丸之内创新伙伴株式会社 (Marunouchi Innovation Partners Co., Ltd.)(一家由三菱商事株式会社 (Mitsubishi Corporation) 、三菱日联银行有限公司 (MUFG Bank Ltd) Pavilion Private Equity Co., Ltd. 共同成立的公司)就该集团向开曼群岛金融管理局持续履行监管报告义务提供法律咨询和服务。
  • 为一基金集团就开曼群岛国际税务合作部 (DITC) 发布的违约通知的影响提供法律咨询和服务,并处理与 DITC 的通信。
  • 就在开曼群岛和英属维尔京群岛注册的封闭式基金的设立和推出,提供法律咨询和服务。