Hong Kong · Malaysia

We start with the structure.

Bond Asian Ventures Limited is a privately held firm working across Hong Kong and Malaysia. We advise a small number of businesses on how they are structured, how they are funded, and what has to be true before a transaction can be put in front of anyone. Engagements are taken by written mandate, and most arrive by referral.

Make an enquiry How we work

Incorporated

Hong Kong, 8 April 2014

Business Registration

BRN 63232153

Presence

Hong Kong and Malaysia

01 What we do

A single discipline.

The firm advises. That is the whole of it. Work is charged by mandate, the scope is agreed in writing before it begins, and we take a limited number of engagements at a time.

Structure and organisation

How a business is held, where its risk sits, and whether the structure it has is still the structure it needs. Most of the problems we are asked to solve late were decided early, in an arrangement adopted for reasons that no longer apply. We look at that first, because everything downstream depends on it.

Group and holding structure review
Allocation of risk between entities
Project and special purpose vehicles
Governance and decision rights
Shareholder and founder arrangements

Funding strategy

We advise on how a requirement should be met: the form capital should take, the security genuinely available to support it, and the sequence in which it is drawn and applied. Our work is the strategy and the preparation. We do not place, distribute or solicit investment, we do not act for investors, and we make no introduction without prior written disclosure.

Requirement definition and cash-flow modelling
Form, ranking and sequencing of capital
Security design and risk transfer
Readiness for third-party diligence
Negotiation support through to signature

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Cross-border and market entry

We work from Hong Kong and Malaysia, and a good deal of what we do runs between the two and out into the wider region. Asia Pacific is not one market, and assumptions that hold in one jurisdiction rarely survive the next. We advise on entry, structure and counterparty selection, working alongside local counsel and accountants rather than in place of them, and on what should be settled at the outset rather than discovered eighteen months in.

Jurisdiction and entity selection
Local partner and counterparty assessment
Operating model, staffing and cost base
Practical sequencing of entry
Coordination of local professional advisers

02 How we work

Early, and in order.

Projects seldom fail on the merits of the proposition. They fail because the structure was addressed last and then accommodated to a shape that did not suit it. We begin at that point and work backwards.

The first weeks go on the structure

Where the structure cannot be made to work, the remainder of the plan carries no value. Everything we do afterwards rests on getting this right, so it is where the first weeks go.

We form a view early, and we say so

Where an engagement cannot succeed, we communicate that within the first two weeks rather than the fourth month. We would rather decline work than prolong it, and we say no more often than we say yes.

Diligence is brought forward

We put the questions a committee will ask to management months before the committee asks them. The process is demanding, and it is the reason our work withstands scrutiny.

Risk is moved away from the operating business

Where the structure permits, exposure is held in a dedicated vehicle rather than granted over the operating company. Management is then able to direct its attention to the business rather than to the defence of it.

Terms are documented before execution

Scope, fees, deliverables, named counterparties and reporting cadence are agreed and executed in writing before any work begins. There are no contingent fees introduced late in an engagement.

03 Engagements

How we take work.

Every engagement begins with a written mandate setting out scope, fees, deliverables and reporting cadence. Nothing is contingent, nothing is introduced late, and no introduction is made without prior disclosure in writing.

The firm is deliberately small. There is no associate layer and no capacity to take on volume, which means a limited number of concurrent mandates and a client dealing directly with the principals throughout. Where an enquiry falls outside our remit, or where we think another adviser is better placed, we say so in the first response.

04 The firm

A small firm, by design.

Bond Asian Ventures Limited was incorporated in Hong Kong on 8 April 2014, Business Registration Number 63232153. The firm is privately held. There is no associate layer; clients deal directly with the principals named below.

Greg Duffell

Founder and Chief Executive

Thirty years in operating and business development roles across Asia Pacific, spanning travel, technology and education, including a term as Chief Executive of the Pacific Asia Travel Association. Based in Malaysia. Responsible for advisory mandates and counterparty relationships.

Vignesh Venugopal

Partner

Responsible for the origination and delivery of advisory mandates, and for the firm's engagement standards, documentation and client reporting.

Important notice

Nothing on this website is an offer, solicitation, recommendation or advice to buy, sell or subscribe for any financial instrument, nor an offer of any fund, security or collective investment scheme. No return is promised, projected or implied. The content is general corporate information about the firm and takes no account of the objectives, financial situation or needs of any person.

Bond Asian Ventures Limited is a company incorporated in Hong Kong, Business Registration Number 63232153. It is not licensed or registered by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and does not carry on any regulated activity under the Securities and Futures Ordinance. The firm does not advise on securities, does not manage a portfolio or assets for any person, does not hold client money or client assets, and does not place, distribute or solicit investment. Advisory engagements are commercial in nature and do not constitute investment, legal, tax or accounting advice.

This site is directed at businesses and professional counterparties. It is not intended for retail investors, nor for distribution in any jurisdiction where that would be contrary to local law.

05 Contact

Enquiries.

A brief outline is sufficient to begin. Where an enquiry falls outside our remit, we will say so in our first response.

greg@bondasianventures.com

Telephone, Malaysia

+60 17 725 7728

Registered office, Hong Kong

Room 1104, Crawford House
70 Queen's Road Central
Central, Hong Kong