Zipo Lai

BIOGRAPHY

Zipo is Head of Family Office, Europe of InvestHK based in Brussels, Belgium.  As a member of the Global Family Office Team, she closely cooperates with overseas InvestHK Teams in 32 global offices in Europe, Americas, Middle East and Asia to organize a series of promotional activities with an aim to:

a. explain the advantages of having a presence in Asia via Hong Kong to European families and European family offices;

b. provide a one-stop platform with exclusive and bespoke services to European family investors in order to facilitate the setting up of (the extensions of) their Family Offices in the city; and

c. facilitate discussions between European family investors and Asian family investors as well as regulators and key industry practitioners based in Hong Kong.

Prior to joining InvestHK, Zipo was a practising legal adviser who assisted multi-generational families in their sucession planning and tax planning matters.  Zipo also assisted family clients in setting up their family trusts and other legal structures as a wealth planner in leading private banks.

Zipo was born and raised in Hong Kong.  She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and a Juris Doctor degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  She was also a Masters of Laws exchange student at Science Po Paris.