Li Pak-tam

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Li Pak-tam
NationalityChinese
Other namesLi Botan
OccupationBusinessman
Known forVenture Capitalism
SpouseJia Qiang
Children2, including Jasmine Li

Li Pak-tam, also known as Li Botan, is a Chinese businessman and socialite. He was one of the three primary backers of the American electric car startup Canoo [1] which was spun off from Faraday Future. [2]

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Family and personal life

He is married to Jia Qiang. [3] This makes him the son-in-law of Jia Qinglin [4] a top Chinese Communist Party official who was the fourth most powerful man in China before his retirement in 2013. Li has two daughters, a daughter named Zidan (Jasmine) Li, and another graduated from Harvard College in 2023. [5] [6] Both Li Pak-tam and Jasmine Li hold Hong Kong residence cards. [7]

Career

Li Pak-tam is the founder and former chairman of the board of Beijing Zhaode Investment Co and has also started a number of companies in Hong Kong. [5]

In 2016 Li was implicated in the Panama Papers leak. The documents revealed that he was the owner of a firm named Fung Shing Development Ltd., which had been set up in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven. His daughter Jasmine was also named in the Panama Papers, her shell company Harvest Sun Trading Ltd. shared a director, Polly Pau Tsz-yim, with her father's BVI shell company. [5] In 2015 The New York Times reported that Li was using an employee named Pan Yongbin as a proxy to hold 32 million shares of Wanda Group, then valued at $200 million. [8]

In October 2019, Li's stake in Canoo was revealed by a lawsuit filed by Christina Krause, the wife of co-founder Stefan Krause. Along with Li, Krause and German industrialist David Stern were Canoo's primary backers. [1] The company started in 2017 when Krause pitched Li and Stern on the idea in Hong Kong. After the meeting, the three reportedly entered into a gentleman's agreement to start the company. Li and Stern provided the startup capital. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 Korosec, Kirsten. "EV subscription startup Canoo, co-founder sued for alleged harassment". techcrunch.com. Tech Crunch. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Neidermeyer, Edward. "EV Startup Canoo Debuts First Subscription-Only Vehicle". www.thedrive.com. The Drive. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  3. ↑ Cheng, Kris. "Relatives of ex-Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping are HK residents – Panama Papers report". www.hongkongfp.com. Hong Kong Free Press. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  4. ↑ Forsythe, Michael. "Wang Jianlin, a Billionaire at the Intersection of Business and Power in China". The New York Times . Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 Catherine Wong, Nectar Gan and. "Son-in-law of ex-senior Chinese leader Jia Qinglin named in latest batch of Panama Papers". www.scmp.com. South China Morning Post. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "The question in China: what Panama Papers?". www.fcchk.org. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  7. ↑ "Cadres' relatives have permanent Hong Kong IDs: Panama Papers". www.ejinsight.com. ejinsight. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  8. ↑ Bing, Fang. "Author of NY Times China Investigation Explains Process". www.voanews.com. Voice of America. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  9. ↑ O'Kane, Sean. "EV startup Canoo's mysterious backers named in new harassment lawsuit". www.theverge.com. The Verge. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
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