Company: APAD
Filing Date: 2025-07-09
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-062242
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Company: AParadise Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-07-09
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 318
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 served in senior roles at various firms. Advisors Kester Ng will serve as an advisor after the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. Since August 2024, he has served as Co -ChiefExecutive Officer of Black Spade Acquisition II Co (Nasdaq: BSII). In January 2025, Black Spade Acquisition II Co announced it has entered into a business combination agreement with The Generation Essentials Group (formerly known as World Media and Entertainment Universal Inc.), a global media and entertainment company. Since 2014, Mr. Ng has served as the Chief Executive Officer of GRE Investment Advisors Limited, a company providing private equity investment advisory and asset management services to institutions, ultra -highnet worth individuals and family offices. GRE is licensed by the Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission (“SFC”) to provide investment advisory and asset management services, under type 4 (Advising on Securities) and Type 9 (Asset Management) licenses. Mr. Ng is also a Managing Partner of the NM Strategic Focus Fund I and II, which are both private equity funds with a focus on making direct investments and providing growth capital to companies in the areas of technology, fintech, health care and consumer services in Asia Pacific and the Greater China region. Private Equity Investee companies include the likes of Lufax (“LU US EQUITY”), Ping An Health and Technology (“1833 HK”) and Animoca Brands. He previously served as Co -ChiefExecutive Officer of Black Spade Acquisition Co, which consummated a business combination with VinFast Auto Pte. Ltd. in August 2023. From 2006 to 2013, Mr.Ng worked at J.P. Morgan where he was the Chairman and Head of Equity Capital & Derivatives Markets for the whole Asia Pacific region (including Japan and Australia), responsible for raising capital for both public and private companies via initial public offerings, 188 equity -linkedofferings and pre -IPOtransactions. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Mr.Ng served as the Managing Director and Head of Greater China Equity Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch and worked there from 1995 to 2006 in London and Hong Kong. Over his professional career, Mr.Ng is one of the most senior ECM bankers in the Asia Pacific Region, having completed a significant number of IPOs, equity and equity -linkedtransactions. His experience includes more than 100 IPOs, pre -IPOsand equity linked transactions for Asia Pacific companies, raising over $100