Mr. Omer Ozden (欧阳默) has been at the forefront of pioneering transactions between China and the United States for over two decades, working with such major companies as New Oriental, NetEase, Baidu, Alibaba, UrWork, Beijing Capital, Xinyuan and ZhenFund, as well as major groups in the U.S. such as Sam Zell (the largest individual real estate investor in the United States and inventor of the REIT), JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Baker & McKenzie, and Morrison & Foerster. He is an expert in finance, law, blockchain and technology, real estate, and doing business between China and the United States. As CEO of RockTree Capital.
He was formerly Partner at the New York office of Baker & McKenzie LLP, the largest law firm in the world, and lawyer at the Hong Kong office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, a leading Silicon Valley law firm, where he acted on a number of technology related venture capital investments and the first initial public offerings (IPOs) from China into the United States. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and is a member of the New York Lawyer’s Bar Association.
Ozden was invited to attend the inaugural Web3 Festival, co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, and organized by W3ME.
Hong Kong, just like New York and Singapore, is a center of TradFi capital markets and thus is well-suited to be a hub for crypto capital markets and Web3 development, since the earliest use-cases in Web3 have been financial. Significant members of the U.S. Web3 community have moved from San Francisco to New York because of this truism, and I see a similar future for Hong Kong.