Practice areas

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

Introduction

Hank Lo, partner and the head of corporate finance in Stevenson Wong & Co, specialises in capital markets, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. He has significant experience advising issuers, sponsors and underwriters on initial public offerings on both the main and GEM boards of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong; 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. He also advises companies in mainland China on matters including property transactions, foreign investment and initial public offerings in other overseas stock markets.

Representative matters:

• 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 the real estate sector in China;
• Advising a leading internet service provider in China in a complex corporate reorganisation to attract foreign investments at the time when this industrial sector was very restrictive for foreign investments in China, which resulted in investments by prominent foreign investors and subsequent takeover by a blue-chip IT listed company in Hong Kong. The investment structure was subsequently adopted by most of China internet companies seeking overseas listing in Hong Kong and on the Nasdaq;
• Advising a real estate developer in its initial public offerings in Hong Kong with a market capitalisation exceeding USD1.5 billion, through various vertical integration and numerous fund raising exercises, the group’s market capitalisation has grown to more than USD4 billion in less than a decade, with an annual turnover of more than USD18 billion and a spun-off listed subsidiary in the property management sector;
• Advising the No.1 brand of tissue paper company in China in its initial public offering in Hong Kong and assisting it to diversify into a full range of personal hygienic products company through a series of mergers and acquisitions, enabling it to achieve a market capitalisation of about USD2.5 billion within 10 years of its IPO and subsequently to consolidate the business of a Fortune 500 company’s operation to become a leading group of the personal hygiene sector in the Asia-Pacific region; and
• 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 in Hong Kong when the company was still in its exploitation stage with no profits and revenue and subsequently advising on the disposal of the 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 was admitted to practices as a solicitor in Hong Kong (1989), Singapore (1995) and England and Wales (1996). He has also been recognised as “The A-List – China’s Elite 100 Lawyers” by the China Business Law Journal in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and “Corporate Finance Lawyer of the Year in Hong Kong” at the International Advisory Experts 2019 Awards.

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