He also did due-diligence work for companies including Hakluyt, a strategic business intelligence company founded by former members of the British foreign intelligence service, MI6, according to a spokesman for the company.

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His firm is transitioning a Hangzhou-based portfolio company, microfinance service UPG, from a wholly-owned foreign entity to a Chinese firm.

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