Practice areas
Banking & finance; Corporate commercial law & corporate services; Corporate finance
Introduction
Hank Lo specialises in capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions. He has significant experience advising issuers, sponsors and underwriters on initial public offerings on both the main and GEM boards of Hong Kong’s stock exchange; advising publicly listed companies on corporate finance transactions; advising private equity funds, venture capital funds and Hong Kong-listed companies on their investments and exits from companies, with an emphasis on China. He also advises companies in mainland China on matters including property transactions, foreign investment and IPOs in overseas stock markets.
- Advising an American Taiwanese investment group on its acquisition of a landmark office building in Guangzhou, triggering the passing of the first property mortgage legislation in China and paving the way for subsequent rapid development of China’s real estate sector.
- Advising a leading internet service provider in China in a complex corporate reorganisation to attract foreign investment at a time when foreign access to this industrial sector was very restricted. This involvement resulted in investments by prominent foreign investors and a takeover by a blue-chip, Hong Kong-listed IT company. The investment structure was subsequently adopted by most of the China internet companies seeking overseas listings in Hong Kong and on the Nasdaq.
- Advising a real estate developer’s USD1.5 billion IPO in Hong Kong. Through various vertical integration and numerous fund raising exercises, the group’s market cap has grown to more than USD4 billion in less than a decade, with an annual turnover of over USD18 billion and a spin-off, listed subsidiary in the property management sector.
- Advising China’s number one brand tissue paper company in its IPO in Hong Kong and then assisting it to diversify into a full range of personal hygienic products through a series of mergers and acquisitions; enabling it to achieve a market cap around USD2.5 billion within 10 years of IPO; and to consolidate a Fortune 500 company’s operations to become a leading group in the personal hygiene sector in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Assisting a group of Chinese clients identify and acquire a marble mine in China, overseeing: the successful listing of the mining concessions on the Hong Kong main board when the company was still in its exploitation stage with no profits and revenue; subsequently advising on the disposal of a controlling stake of the listed company together with the mining concession – all completed within three years of assets acquisition.
Lo joined the firm in 1997 and has been admitted to practise as a solicitor in Hong Kong (1989), Singapore (1995) and England and Wales (1996). He has been recognised in China Business Law Journal’s A-List of China’s elite 100 lawyers in 2019, 2020, and 2021, and the “corporate finance lawyer of the year in Hong Kong” at the International Advisory Experts 2019 awards.
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