Private Equity International feature guest article by Edwin Chan

Edwin Chan

Director, UK Funds

Edwin Chan joined Intertrust in November 2019 as Director of Business Development in the U.K. where he’s responsible for leading Intertrust’s expansion of its client base among alternative fund managers and investors in Europe. He has a particular focus on specialist alternative asset servicing solutions across hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure and renewable energy funds.

With over 20 years’ experience in the alternative fund industry, Edwin joined Intertrust from DMS Governance where he was EMEA Head of Business Development and from Northern Trust where he led the business development efforts in the private capital sector within EMEA.  Prior to that he was a Senior Director in business development at SS&C GlobeOp and spent eight years at Wells Fargo where he held several roles, latterly as the Global Head of Fund Accounting. Previously he was European Head of Fund Accounting of Black River Asset Management, a US$ 12BN hedge and private equity manager.

Prior to this, Edwin has held various senior positions at HSBC in Hong Kong, Citi in Bermuda and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC in London.

Edwin is an active contributor to the alternative funds’ industry having been the co-editor for AIMA’s Guide to Sound Practices for the selection of fund administrators, part of the Working Group for the Hedge Fund Standards Board for Administrator Transparency Reporting; and publication of a white paper on hybrid alternative fund structures. Edwin has also ran multiple masterclasses for AIMA and leading law firms on performance fee/carried interest calculations.