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Hank-Lo

Hank Lo

Partner
Stevenson Wong & Co
Hong Kong

Contact
Tel: +852 2533 2507
Email: hanklo.office@sw-hk.com

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Practice areas

Banking & finance; Corporate commercial law & corporate services; Corporate finance

Introduction

Hank Lo is a partner and the head of corporate finance at Stevenson Wong & Co, specialising in capital markets, corporate finance, and M&A matters. Lo has significant experience in: Advising issuers, sponsors and underwriters on IPOs on both the main and GEM boards of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited; and advising publicly listed companies on a broad range of corporate finance transactions; advising private equity funds, venture capital funds and Hong Kong-listed companies on their investments in, and exits from, companies with an emphasis on China. Lo also advises companies in mainland China on matters including property transactions, foreign investment and IPOs in overseas stock markets.

Representative matters:

(1) 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 the subsequent rapid development of the real estate sector in China.

(2) Advising a leading internet service provider in China in a complex corporate reorganisation to attract foreign investment at a time when this industrial sector was very restrictive for foreign investment in China, which resulted in investment from prominent foreign investors and the subsequent takeover by a blue-chip IT listed company in Hong Kong. The investment structure was subsequently adopted by most China internet companies seeking overseas listings in Hong Kong and on the Nasdaq.

(3) Advising a real estate developer in its IPO in Hong Kong with a market capitalisation exceeding US$1.5 billion. Through various vertical integration and numerous fundraising exercise, the group’s market capitalisation has grown to more than US$4 billion in less than a decade, with an annual turnover of more than US$18 billion and a spun-off listed subsidiary in the property management sector.

(4) Advising the No.1 brand tissue paper company in China in its IPO in Hong Kong, and assisting it to diversify into a full-range personal hygienic products company through a series of mergers and acquisitions, enabling it to achieve a market capitalisation of about US$2.5 billion within 10 years of its IPO, and subsequently consolidating the business of a Fortune 500 company’s operation to become a leading group in the personal hygiene sector in the Asia-Pacific region.

(5) Assisting a group of PRC clients in identifying and acquiring a marble mine in China, overseeing the successful listing of the mining concessions on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong when the company was still in its exploitation stage, with no profits and revenue, and subsequently advising on the disposal of a controlling stake of the listed company, together with the mining concession, all completed within three years of asset acquisition.

Lo joined the firm in 1997 and was admitted to practice as a solicitor in Hong Kong (1989), Singapore (1995) and England and Wales (1996). He was also recognised as “Corporate Finance Lawyer of the Year in Hong Kong” at the International Advisory Experts 2019 Awards.

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