Debtwire Asia Pacific Forum 2023
The Four Seasons Hotel, Hong Kong SAR & Online
10
Oct
Asian credit: The state of play
The last two years have been the most difficult years on record for Asian high yield bond investors as well as for special situation investors requiring a fundamental change to investment strategies for many. Our panel of leading industry experts and market leaders will discuss the issues that have led to changes and the outlook for Asian credit including:
- How are investments funds adapting to the changed landscape?
- How can Asian credit be made more attractive to investors?
- What is the future of Asian credit?
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SpeakersKathleen Aka Partner WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES
SJ Lim Managing Director, Asia Credit KKR
Dr. Sean Chang Co-Chief investment Officer, Fixed Income VALUE PARTNERS
Roger Zhang Managing Director-Credit BLACKSTONE
Jenny Zeng CIO -APAC-Fixed Income ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS
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Kathleen Aka (formerly Kathleen Berkeley) leads Weil’s Asia Restructuring practice. Based in Hong Kong, she has nearly 20 years of experience advising both debtors and creditors in relation to contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency matters in the Asia-Pacific region. Dually qualified in Hong Kong and New South Wales, Australia, Kathleen is skilled in guiding clients through the most challenging and complex processes of financial restructuring, creditor enforcement, formal insolvency, insolvency litigation, distressed M&A, and distressed secondary debt trading.
Kathleen’s diverse experience and comprehensive skillset straddling both contentious and non-contentious work earn her recognition as one of the top restructuring lawyers in Asia. She has been recognized as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific in 2020 and 2021 and a Rising Star Partner by IFLR1000 Asia Pacific in Restructuring & Insolvency in 2022. She was also named an Asia Future Leader by IFLR in 2021 and was selected as one of the “40 Under 40” honorees by Asian Legal Business in 2019.
Kathleen has a reputation for her unique capability in advising a wide range of clients across the full gamut of distressed situations, including bondholders, trustees, credit and distressed investment funds, banks, insolvency practitioners, shareholders, and distressed corporations. Her industry experience covers banking and financial services, insurance and reinsurance, health, infrastructure, energy, mining and agriculture, shipping and transportation, retail, and property.
SJ Lim joined KKR in 2019 and is a Managing Director and Head of Southeast Asia and India Credit. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Lim spent 13 years at Credit Suisse where he was responsible for the private financing business in Southeast Asia, India and Australia, which spanned corporate loans, leveraged finance, structure credit and share financing for corporates and ultra high net worth counterparties. Mr. Lim holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a first class honors in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.
Dr Sean CHANG has 28 years investment and research experience specialized on fixed income.He joined Value Partners in January 2023 as Co-Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income.
Prior to joining the firm, he was most recently Head of Fixed Income at Ping An of China Asset Management (Hong Kong)Company Limited, where he managed investment accounts for leading institutions and insurance companies with a focus in China investments. Before that, he spent six years with Baring Asset Management (Asia )Limited as Head of Asia Debt Investment specialized in Mainland research strategies and China credit decisions.
Earlier, he was with Halbis Capital Management (Hong Kong) Limited as Investment Director leading research and portfolio management for five years. Prior to that, he also held different positions with Mira Asset Global Investments (Hong Kong) Limited, Hang Seng Investment Management, Invesco Asset Management Asia Limited, HSBC Private Bank, HSBC Asset Management, Bank of Tokyo (Hong Kong)Limited.
He started his career at Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Hong Kong in 1994.Dr Chang graduated from Macquarie University with a Doctor’s degree in Business Administration and obtained a Master’s degree in Finance from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, a Master’s degree in Social Science (Major in Government and Politics of Greater China) and Master’s degree in Law (Major in Chinese Business Law) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Mr. Zhang is a Managing Director at Blackstone Credit, responsible for origination and execution of credit investments across capital structure in Asia. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Zhang was the Head of Private Debt Asia at Partners Group, responsible for senior and mezzanine debt investments in private equity sponsor-backed companies across Asia-Pacific. Mr. Zhang holds a MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.
Jenny Zeng is the Chief Investment Officer, Asia-Pacific Fixed Income with Allianz Global Investors based in Hong Kong. Ms. Zeng joined AllianzGI in January 2023 and is responsible for AllianzGI’s fixed Income investments in the region. She is also a member of the firm’s Global Fixed Income Investment Management Committee. Before joining AllianzGI, Ms. Zeng was at AllianceBernstein for more than nine years, serving as Co-Head Asia-Pacific Fixed Income and Responsible Officer. Before that, Ms. Zeng was Credit Sector Specialist with Citigroup for more than 8 years, specialized in high-yield credits. Ms. Zeng frequently appears in leading international media such as Bloomberg, CNBC and is renowned for her views on macro-economic and credit matters.