Hank Lo

Introduction

Hank Lo, a partner and the head of corporate finance at 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 (growth enterprise market) 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 firms 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.

Lo has represented a number of enterprises on various matters:

• 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 the subsequent rapid development of the real estate sector in China;
• 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 to foreign investment, which resulted in investments by prominent foreign investors and the subsequent take-over by a blue-chip IT listed company in Hong Kong. The investment structure was subsequently adopted by most of the China internet companies seeking to list in Hong Kong and on the Nasdaq;
• A real estate developer on its initial public offering in Hong Kong with a market capitalisation exceeding USD1.5 billion. Through various vertical integration and numerous fund-raising
• exercise, the group’s market capitalisation has grown to over USD4 billion in less than a decade, with an annual turnover of over USD18 billion and a spun-off listed subsidiary in the property management sector;
• The No.1 brand 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 in the personal hygiene sector in the Asia Pacific region;
• 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 exploration stage with no profit and 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 among “The A-List China’s Elite 100 Lawyers” by China Business Law Journal from 2019 to 2021, and “Corporate Finance Lawyer of the Year in Hong Kong” at the International Advisory Experts 2019 Awards.