Samuel Tak Lee is a Hong Kong based billionaire property developer who’s most prominent acquisitions in the UK was of the Langham Estate for £75 million in 1994. He then went on to develop the Knightsbridge Apartments. According to Forbes he has a net worth of £42.8 billion and is 19th on the Forbes list of Hong Kong’s richest. During 2014, the billionaire built up a stake of 5% in Soho’s Shaftsbury Estate which he then sold in part producing a couple of million pounds profit.