desVoeux Partners

desVoeux Partners

Jesse Friedlander established desVoeux Partners in 2016 after a career at Merrill Lynch. Joanne Chow joined as co-founder and director; she is a third-generation member of the Chow family that controls the Aussco textile group. The firm operates from Hong Kong and manages wealth for multiple Asian families. The firm allocates across public equities, private equity, private credit, hedge funds, real estate and secondaries. It executes direct co-investments and SPVs alongside fund commitments and distressed opportunities. Confirmed positions include Pilar Gold. Geographic reach covers Asia, Europe and North America. Investment stages range from seed through growth and buyout. Team size and total deployment remain undisclosed. The firm maintains commercial real-estate holdings in Hong Kong, including retail stores in Sha Tin, Central and Causeway Bay, plus the azalvo Co-creation Space. Jesse Friedlander previously served as president of the Yale Club of Hong Kong and holds board-advisory roles at Johns Hopkins SAIS. The firm combines single-family-office discipline with multi-family scale through its affiliation with the Chow family operating business. This structure supplies proprietary access to regional deal flow and operational expertise not available to pure external allocators.