Ms. Gao has been Head of Legal and Compliance of C Capital since September 2021 overseeing all legal and compliance matters of C Capital. She is also a responsible officer (Type 1, 4 and 9) and senior legal counsel at C Capital Investment Management Limited, an asset management firm licensed and regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. She is an attorney dually qualified in the State of New York, the United States and the People's Republic of China, with over 17 years of legal experience in private equity, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets practices. Prior to C Capital, Ms. Gao worked at Hong Kong office of Latham & Watkins from November 2017 to September 2021 during which period she was seconded to The Carlyle Group as Legal Counsel in Asia from September 2019 to March 2020. Prior to that, she worked at Hong Kong office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer from December 2015 to October 2017 and Shanghai and Hong Kong offices of Minter Ellison Lawyers from September 2007 to August 2015. Ms. Gao holds a bachelor of laws degree from Fudan University Law School and a master of laws degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
Ms. Gao has been Head of Legal and Compliance of C Capital since September 2021 overseeing all legal and compliance matters of C Capital. She is also a responsible officer (Type 1, 4 and 9) and senior legal counsel at C Capital Investment Management Limited, an asset management firm licensed and regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. She is an attorney dually qualified in the State of New York, the United States and the People's Republic of China, with over 17 years of legal experience in private equity, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets practices. Prior to C Capital, Ms. Gao worked at Hong Kong office of Latham & Watkins from November 2017 to September 2021 during which period she was seconded to The Carlyle Group as Legal Counsel in Asia from September 2019 to March 2020. Prior to that, she worked at Hong Kong office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer from December 2015 to October 2017 and Shanghai and Hong Kong offices of Minter Ellison Lawyers from September 2007 to August 2015. Ms. Gao holds a bachelor of laws degree from Fudan University Law School and a master of laws degree from the University of Chicago Law School.