Ms. Hartline, a corporate and finance attorney, has more than 20 years’ practice experience, including more than 16 years in Asia in the areas of corporate, finance, private equity and private investment funds work. She has acted on numerous investment and finance transactions for various international funds as well as set up private equity funds (traditional, distressed debt, real estate and secondary opportunity), hybrid funds, hedge funds and fund of funds for various fund sponsors in Asia. Investors in such funds have included US tax exempt, US state pension plan and ERISA investors, as well as various non-US investors. She has also acted for a variety of investors from the United States, Europe and Asia investing in private investment funds focused on the Asian region and has advised hedge funds on various US and HK regulatory issues, including licensing matters.

Ms. Hartline is experienced on both the buy and sell side of strategic stake sale transactions and joint venture acquisitions both for Asian and international companies. She has 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. In 2005, Ms. Hartline acted for a telecommunications group that acquired a close to 20% stake in a Hong Kong listed company. In 2004, she completed an acquisition financing involving two fund investors buying a stake in a company that owned several power projects in China and elsewhere.

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 financings, particularly project financings of power and water facilities.

In the recently published Chambers Asia 2009 guide it was noted that Clients also admire her for taking “great care in understanding what it is we want to do and coming up with the optimum solution, not just one off the shelf.”