Hank Lo

Introduction

Hank Lo, a partner and the head of corporate finance at Stevenson Wong & Co, specialises in capital markets, corporate finance and M&A matters. 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 IPO 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 the 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 a time when this industrial sector was restrictive for foreign investments in China, which resulted in investments by prominent foreign investors and a subsequent takeover by a blue-chip IT listed company in Hong Kong. The investment structure was subsequently adopted by most Chinese internet companies seeking overseas listing in Hong Kong and the Nasdaq.
• Advising a real estate developer in its IPO in Hong Kong with a market capitalisation exceeding USD1.5 billion. Through various vertical integration and numerous fundraising 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 tissue paper company in China in its IPO in Hong Kong and assisting it to diversify into a full range of personal hygienic products company through a series of M&A, 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 in the personal hygiene sector in the Asia-Pacific region.
• 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 or revenue, and subsequently advising on the disposal of 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 practise 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 from 2019 to 2025 and “Corporate Finance Lawyer of the Year in Hong Kong” at the International Advisory Experts 2019 Awards.