Joyce Wang

Joyce Wang focuses her practice on core areas of corporate, partnership, and securities law, with a particular emphasis on the asset management industry and cross border fund transactions. She has extensive hands-on experience advising on the formation of private investment funds, global asset allocation by institutional investors, and highly complex, cutting-edge fund adjacent transactions, including fund restructurings, liquidity solutions, and the tokenization of fund interests.

As a key member of Cooley’s funds practice, Joyce is spearheading the firm’s “Funds+” initiative, built on a strong foundation of core fund formation capabilities. This innovative approach integrates traditional fund legal services with the evolving needs of high growth sectors such as digital assets, fintech, life sciences, and artificial intelligence. Through multidisciplinary and tailor-made legal solutions, she helps corporate clients expand into new business areas and efficiently execute strategic initiatives.

Joyce has been at the forefront of supporting Hong Kong’s emerging start up ecosystem, with a particular focus on the intersection of law and technology. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a regular contributor to leading financial media on legal and regulatory issues relating to private funds and forward-looking fund structuring.

Joyce also has experience in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged finance, capital markets and general corporate matters. Her legal training, transactional background and cross-border experience gained through practicing in New York, Shanghai and Hong Kong allow her to bring a unique perspective to clients when advising on their innovative, multi-jurisdictional transactions.

Joyce’s representative publications include:

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• "How AI is Forcing VCs to Rethink Their Timelines," Tech in Asia, October 2025

Blockchain & Digital Assets

• "Chambers Global Practice Guide: Blockchain & Crypto Assets 2026 (Hong Kong SAR, China)," Chambers and Partners, June 2026
• "Navigating the New Frontier: A Comparative Analysis of Stablecoin and Crypto-Asset Regulation in the US and Hong Kong," Cooley client alert, March 2026
• "Hong Kong’s Stablecoins Ordinance and What Comes Next," Cooley client alert, August 2025
• "Everything You Want to Know About RWAs But Are Afraid to Ask," Cooley client alert, September 2025
• "Come In and Register,’ Now with Directions," Cooley client alert, May 2025

Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) 

• "Structuring CVC-Backed Funds: A Governance, Economics and Regulatory Deep Dive," Cooley client alert, August 2026
• "Structuring Co-GP Agreements in the Corporate Venture Capital Landscape," Cooley client alert, August 2025
• "Driving Business Growth Through Investment Funds: Analyses and Practical Insights for Chinese Biotechs," Cooley client alert, June 2025

Fund Secondaries & Liquidity Solutions

• "Tokenization: A Promising Solution for Fully Invested VC/PE Funds," The Asset, February 2025
• "Structuring Fund Liquidations with Pass-Through Notes," Hong Kong Lawyer, Thomson Reuters, October 2024
• "GP-Led Secondary Transactions and Continuation Funds: Structuring Options and Tax Considerations," Cooley client alert, July 2023

Hong Kong Asset Management

• “Navigating the SFC’s Operational Rulebook on Listed Closed-Ended Alternative Asset Funds,” Cooley client alert, July 2026
• "Hong Kong SFC Clarifies Listing Requirements for Closed-Ended Funds," Cooley client alert, February 2025
• Hong Kong Private Fund Offering Playbook, September 2024

LP Representation

• "2026 Outlook: Limited Partners Looking to Shape Fund Structures and Liquidity Strategies," Cooley client alert, February 2026
• "Structuring Considerations for ESG-Centered LP Investments," Hong Kong Lawyer, Thomson Reuters, June 2025
• "Key Considerations for Corporate Venture Capital LP Investments," International Financial Law Review (IFLR), March 2024

Joyce’s media mentions include:

• Quoted, "Hong Kong regulator clarifies operational requirements for alternative funds regime," Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence, July 2026
• Quoted, "The Wave of Real World Asset Tokenization, Hong Kong’s Regulation Builds High Walls – Experts Advise on Breaking Through the Bottleneck," HK01, January 2026
• Quoted, "More Than 21 Listed Companies Have Issued RWA Entry Announcements Within Three Months," Ming Pao, October 2025
• Quoted, "Chinese firms eye HK's new alternative fund listing rules," Ignites Asia by Financial Times, March 2025
• Quoted, "How Hong Kong’s new SFC rules could transform alternative asset investing," South China Morning Post (SCMP), March 2025
• Quoted, "China Exits: Minority Investors Look to Force Their Way Out via Redemptions," Mergermarket, February 2025