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Accounting Practices, Corporate Governance and setting up of Family Office in Hong Kong
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- Open SPACE 2021
- Subject
- Accounting
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- Date & time
- 05Jun 2021 (Sat)14:00 - 15:00
- Venue
- Live broadcast
- Fee
- Free
- Speaker
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- Moderator: Mr Sam Law, Adjunct Associate Professor of HKU SPACE, Fellow Certified Public Accountant ;
- Speaker: Mr Dixon Wong, Head of Financial Services and Global Head of Family Office, Invest Hong Kong The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Moderator: Mr Sam Law, Adjunct Associate Professor of HKU SPACE, Fellow Certified Public Accountant
Adj Assoc Prof Law area of expertise includes IPO, fundraising (USA and HK), corporate governance, risk management, venture capital and mergers & acquisitions (HK and PRC). He actively involved in procuring investments in innovative and listed companies of selected industries. He has previously worked in major corporations such as New World Group, Kraft, Brunswick and Times Inc which enable him to have vast experience in company finance and operational process.
Speaker: Mr Dixon Wong, Head of Financial Services and Global Head of Family Office, Invest Hong Kong The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Mr Wong was appointed as the Head of Financial Services at Invest Hong Kong (“InvestHK”) in March 2019 and the Global Head of Family Office in April 2021. InvestHK is the government department and the Financial Services and Family Office teams at InvestHK are responsible for investment promotion and business facilitation, i.e. helping overseas and Mainland financial institutions and family offices to establish or expand their business presence in Hong Kong. Before joining InvestHK, Mr Wong held various senior positions in a number of different departments in an international bank for more than 20 years. Before that, he worked in the assurance and advisory department of a big four international accounting firm. Mr Wong has obtained a LLB (Hons) degree and a MBA degree from the United Kingdom. He is also a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA, Aust & NZ), Fellow Certified Public Accountant (FCPA, Hong Kong), Fellow Chartered Governance Professional (FCIS/FCG, UK) and Fellow Chartered Secretary (FCS, Hong Kong). Mr. Wong is also a member of HKTDC Financial Services Advisory Committee and Steering Committee member of Asian Financial Forum.
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Language - Cantonese
Accounting Practices, Corporate Governance and setting up of Family Office in Hong Kong
Other than the leadership succession issue, family own company would face the disintegration of ownership due to dispute within the family members. The economic growth in Asia witnessed in the past few decades has resulted in an increase in family-owned company with enormous wealth, and subsequently, increasing demand for family office services. Family office is currently one of the fastest-growing industries.
This seminar set to discuss
1. The role of accounting, law, finance and company secretary practitioners in family office services
2. Effective transition of assets facing with a cross border and multi-generation framework
3. Beyond tax minimalization and tax incentives; toward wealth management and creation.
4. Choosing the Family office domicile - good governance, transparency, the rule of law, regulatory consistency, financial healthiness, fairness, the cosmopolitan and forward-thinking mindset of a society.
Remark: CPD unit: 1 (No CPD certificates would be distributed to participants. However, ACCA members can keep the event confirmation and screen shots of the webinar as evidence for own CPD declaration.)
The School may make available related programme information material at the seminar.
The School reserves the right to alter or modify the schedule of the event if necessary or expedient.
