Ms. Hartline, a corporate and finance attorney, has over 20 years of practice experience, including over 16 years in Asia in the areas of corporate, finance, private equity and private investment funds work. She has acted on several investment and finance transactions for various international funds as well as set up both private equity funds (investment, distressed debt and secondary opportunity) and hedge funds for various fund sponsors in Asia. Investors in such funds have included US tax exempt and ERISA investors, as well as various non-US investors. She has also acted for investors investing in private investment funds. 

She is also very experienced on both the buy and sell side of strategic stake sale transactions and joint venture acquisitions both for Asian and international companies. For six years she spent a significant amount of time working on cross-border transactions involving the Philippines. Originally trained as a finance lawyer, Ms. Hartline also has substantial experience in international and US domestic financings, particularly project financings of power and water facilities, and acquisition financings.

Ms. Hartline completed in 2004 an acquisition financing involving two fund investors buying a stake in a company that owned several power projects in China and elsewhere. She also structured, negotiated and documented complex joint ventures for a major US financial institution in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
 
In Hong Kong, Ms. Hartline has acted for sellers and buyers in connection with auction sales of various types of Asian businesses.