Ho Yan Ko

Lawyer

Ho Yan is dual-qualified in NSW and Hong Kong and has experience in corporate, leveraged and asset financing transactions including experience acting for financial institutions, credit funds, and corporate lenders and borrowers in syndicated and bilateral loan transactions both domestically and internationally.

She values teamwork and collaboration and brings a pragmatic and collaborative approach to help clients achieve their commercial objectives.

Prior to joining Hamilton Locke, Ho Yan practised internationally as a banking and finance lawyer at US law firm Reed Smith in its Hong Kong office.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Banking & Finance; Corporate Lending; Leveraged & Acquisition Finance; Asset Finance; Cross-Border Transactions

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science – University of Melbourne
Juris Doctor – University of Sydney
Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice – College of Law
Postgraduate Certificate of Law – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales and Hong Kong (non-practising)

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS

Advising Alceon Private Equity on a multi-currency acquisition facility for the acquisition of a 50% interest in BOSS Engineering.
Advising Longreach Credit Investors on its A$40m loan facility to ZEN Energy.
Advising IPD Group Limited (ASX:IPG) on an acquisition facility for the acquisition of CMI Operations.
Acting for a Hong Kong bank on a HK$1.3 billion mortgage loan facility secured by a property mortgage over a commercial property.*
Acting for an HKEX listed company as borrower on a sustainability-linked facility.*

* Experience undertaken at another firm