Raymond Ko

Biography

Raymond advises on a  broad range of employment and corporate and commercial work including employee incentive schemes, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder and board governance advice, data privacy, software licensing, SFC investigations, and financing transactions.

Raymond received a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He went on to complete his Juris Doctor and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL) at the University of Hong Kong.

Biography

• Assisted in the sale of a professional services firm with operations in over nine jurisdictions for consideration in the hundreds of million HKD, which involved advising on due diligence issues, preparing disclosures, and assisting in the review and negotiations of transaction documents and post-transaction services agreements between the sellers and the purchaser.
• Assisted in the sale of a multijurisdictional insurance business, which involved extensive negotiations on the terms of the transactional documents and post-transaction services arrangements for the sellers.
• Represented a US-based fintech business in its acquisition of a Hong Kong-based software business in a acqui-hire transaction.
• Assisted in drafting, reviewing and advising on employment contracts, employee handbooks, employee incentive schemes, and employment policies. Advised on terminations and redundancies and the transfer of employees.
• Advised the majority shareholder of a furniture manufacturer on various issues in relation to shareholders’ rights, board and shareholders’ procedures, employee incentive schemes, and debt restructuring.
• Advised a Chinese state-owned enterprise on various employment, regulatory, debt recovery and corporate governance issues in relation to its Hong Kong investment.
• Assisted a multinational digital advertising business in establishing its Hong Kong office, including advising on the transfer of employees.
• Assisted companies in the technology and insurance sectors to establish employee incentive schemes including share option schemes, share grant schemes, and performance-linked bonus schemes.

Biography

• The Law Society of Hong Kong