Phillip Meyer
General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Co-Chief Operating Officer, Oasis Management Co. Ltd.
Phillip Meyer joined Oasis in 2007 and serves as General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Co-Chief Operating Officer for the Oasis Group. He is responsible for providing legal advice to the Oasis Group and managing its legal and regulatory affairs on a global basis, as well as overseeing all non-investment aspects of the firm’s business, including infrastructure, IT and data security, business development and fund distribution, human resources, and he co-leads the firm’s finance and trade operations teams.
Mr. Meyer received a B.A. in English from The University of Texas at Austin, graduating with high honours, and he received a J.D. from Cornell Law School, where he was Note Editor for the Cornell International Law Journal. Mr. Meyer is licenced as an attorney with the New York State Bar and is an associate member of the Hong Kong Law Society.
He is the Chair of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Hong Kong Executive Committee and formerly served as Co-Chair of its Regulatory Committee; serves on the Human Capital Committee of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council (HKFSDC); is a member of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) Culture & Diversity Committee for APAC; co-chairs the Sohn Hong Kong Investment Conference planning committee for the Karen Leung Foundation; formerly served as a member of the Education Committee of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute (HKSI) and formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel Hong Kong (ACC) and as Co-Chair of its Financial Services Committee.
Mr. Meyer was named to The Legal 500’s inaugural “GC Powerlist: China & Hong Kong” in 2017 and the Oasis Legal Team was named to the GC Powerlist: Hong Kong Teams 2019, and he was the recipient of the 2021 Lexology Asia-Pacific Global Counsel Award for Regulatory (Financial Services). Mr. Meyer is a frequent speaker on topics related to financial markets, regulatory compliance, ethics, internal investigations, financial services legal issues and trends, in-house legal and compliance department management, hedge fund operations and management, shareholder activism, and ESG topics, including firm diversity and inclusion.
