Vivien Teu

Vivien Teu is a partner and head of Asset Management & ESG at Dentons Hong Kong. With more than 20 years’ extensive corporate and commercial experience advising financial institutions and financial services sectors, including numerous strategic joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, Vivien has acted for some of the largest global and regional financial institutions and asset managers on legal and regulatory matters for cross-border financial markets access, investments and platform building, as well as extensive experience advising investors and other market participants. Vivien is market-leading in having developed a unique focus in her practice on corporate and regulatory issues around environmental, social and governance (ESG), sustainable finance, responsible investment, impact investing and social finance. Vivien is a key member of the Dentons Global ESG Steering Committee as the co-lead for Sustainable Finance. In this role, Vivien is active galvanising and working alongside colleagues with multi-regional and multi-sectoral knowledge and expertise within Dentons, in advising financial institutions as well as corporate clients on legal, regulatory and compliance matters over a range of ESG issues and in meeting challenges and opportunities in the transition to a low-carbon economy across key sectors and regions.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

On the foundation of Hong Kong’s netzero commitment, to see more businesses across sectors taking account of environment impact of their operations, products, services and supply chain, and embracing transition pathways on the green and sustainable finance infrastructure Hong Kong has established.