Cone Marshall HK Ltd

Geoffrey Cone is the founder and senior principal of Cone Marshall and a leading international trust and tax planning lawyer. He has contributed to Trusts & Trustees, Rothschild Trust Review, the New Zealand Law Journal, and The World Trusts Survey and International Trust Disputes (both Oxford University Press), among many other publications. He has participated as leading counsel in cases at all levels of the New Zealand courts and at the Privy Council in London.

Geoffrey began practising commercial litigation as well as tax and trust advisory work in 1980. His tenure at a leading Christchurch law firm included two years as chairman of partners. 

Later, Geoffrey served as a litigator in the British West Indies for two years. In 1998, he returned to New Zealand to establish his own firm, Cone and Co., which would become Cone Marshall Limited in 2007. 

Geoffrey completed a postgraduate diploma in tax and trust law and completed an LLB at the University of Otago.

Mr. Alex Ni serves as the Business Development Director for the China region. He is responsible for business development and customer relations in the China region.

Alex has over 20 years of work experience in the financial industry, having served as the head of private wealth business at Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC.

He holds the Certified Financial Planner (RFP) certification from the United States and the Financial Planner (AFP) certification from the China Financial Planner Standards Committee.

Alex obtained a master’s degree from the University of Southampton in the UK. He is Fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Ms. Emily Chiu serves as the Company Secretarial and Trust Officer at Cone Marshall. Emily is responsible for managing all company secretarial matters of Hong Kong companies, including company incorporation, corporate changes, bank account opening etc. She also works closely with the compliance team on company secretarial and compliance matters in other jurisdictions. Apart from that, Emily also supports the lawyers on trust administration matters. 

Prior to joining Cone Marshall, Emily worked in the Company Secretarial Department of a multinational conglomerate where she handled a full spectrum of company secretarial matters in private companies. She had also worked in the in-house legal department of a global retail brand handling corporate governance and legal operations matters of companies in APAC regions.  

Emily holds a Bachelor of Laws and Masters in International Business from the University of East Anglia and University of Warwick.  She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Corporate Governance to obtain a Chartered Secretary qualification.  

Emily is native in Cantonese and fluent in Mandarin and English.  

Ms. Mary Huang is a practising New Zealand Solicitor at Cone Marshall’s Hong Kong office.  She is responsible for the set up and administration of trusts across various jurisdictions offered by Cone Marshall, in particular New Zealand Foreign Trusts 

Before joining Cone Marshall and moving to Hong Kong, Mary worked at a well-known trustee company and subsequently a law firm in New Zealand, practising in the area of Trusts and Estates. She has provided professional consulting and one-on-one services on trust establishment, operation, and asset allocation for high-net-worth clients. 

Mary holds a practicing certificate issued by the New Zealand Law Society and is enrolled as a Solicitor and Barrister of the High Court of New Zealand. 

Mary holds a conjoint Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Auckland. She can speak English, Cantonese and Mandarin.  

Ms. Ada Ng serves as the Managing Director and the Head of the Asia region. She is responsible for business and customer relations in Asia, particularly in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore.

Ada has 20 years of experience in senior management in the financial industry, including serving as the CEO of Citibank Insurance Broker of Citibank (Hong Kong), as well as the head of cross-border banking at Hang Seng Bank (Hong Kong).

She holds a Diploma in Trust and Estate Planning issued by the British Business Practitioners Association, as well as a Certificate of Professional Competence in Estate Planning and Trust Management from the People’s Republic of China and teaches in the Family Office program at the University of Hong Kong.

Ada obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of Hong Kong. Ada is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English.

Mr. Chung Yin O (Chung) serves as the Regional Legal and Operations Director of the Hong Kong and Singapore office of the Cone Marshall Group.

Chung has been in the offshore trust industry for more than 25 years; having worked in Canada, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai. Chung has extensive experience in establishing and managing trusts and corporate structures for private clients, where there was a focus on wealth planning in cross border environments, especially in tax issues in the United States or Canada.

Chung is admitted to the Bar of California, USA and Ontario, Canada. Chung is also a qualified CPA in Washington, USA and Alberta, Canada.

Chung is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Chung is a native of Hong Kong and is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin.

Maggie Mao is the Trust Manager at Cone Marshall Hong Kong Office. She is responsible for maintaining close contact with Asian clients, establishing and managing American foreign grantor trust and domestic trust for these clients, and providing professional, safe, and effective advice on client’s wealth protection and inheritance planning. 

Maggie obtained a Master’s degree in law (LL.M.) from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil and Commercial Law (LL.B.) from East China University of Political Science and Law.  

She has passed the PRC Bar and the New York Bar (admission pending). 

Educated in Shanghai and New York, Maggie is fluent in both Mandarin and English.