Simon Luk

Simon Luk, former chairman of Asia practice and partner of several major US law firms’ offices in Hong Kong, focuses his practice on international corporate securities and cross-border M&A.

Mr. Luk represents multinational corporations in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions, investment funds, U.S. capital market fund raising, compliance with regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the acquisition of assets and brand names.

Mr. Luk was named one of “China’s Elite 50 Lawyers (Foreign Firms)” in the 2018 edition and “China’s Elite 100 Lawyers (Foreign Firms)” in the 2019 edition of the “A-List” published by China Business Law Journal, which recognizes top private practice lawyers for China-related business. The Practical Law Company Cross-Border Handbook, a comprehensive guide to the leading lawyers and law firms in private equity, recognized Mr. Luk from 2006 through 2012 as a leading lawyer for private equity: buyouts and a highly recommended lawyer for mergers and acquisitions work. Asia Law has also named him as a leading lawyer in its annual survey of Asian capital market lawyers. Mr. Luk is ranked as a leading lawyer and exceptional practitioner in corporate practice in China and Hong Kong by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific in 2012 through 2017.

Mr. Luk serves as honorary legal adviser to the Toy Manufacturers Association of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Electrical Appliances Industries Association, the Hong Kong Young Industrialists Council, and as Vice President of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association of Hong Kong. He was a legal adviser to the Hong Kong Electronics Association and a former honorary legal adviser to The Chamber of Hong Kong Listed Companies for many years.

• Represented RF Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its US$100 million initial public offering of 10,000,000 units at US$10 per unit and subsequent on-going business combination with Grand Centrex Ltd, a leading Singapore-based video game distributor in a US$1.2 billion transaction.
• Represented Vistas Media Acquisition Company Inc., a special purpose acquisition company, in its US$100 million initial public offering of 10,000,000 units at US$10 per unit. Advised the company in its business combination with Anghami, the leading music streaming platform and service in the Middle East and North Africa.
• Represented Netfin Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company targeting businesses in the fintech industry, in its business combination with Triterras Fintech Pte Ltd., a leading fintech company for commodity trading and trade finance with a presence in key trading centres across the world, including Singapore, the United Kingdom and United States.
• Acted for Diginex Limited, a global blockchain financial services and technology company headquartered in Hong Kong, in the execution of a definitive share exchange agreement with 8i Enterprises Acquisition Corp. a special purpose acquisition company.
• Represented a leading China-based domestic water treatment equipment supplier in its follow-on public offering of 3,545,000 American Depositary Shares of about US$90 million.
• Represented a NASDAQ-listed manufacturer of automotive systems and components in its PIPE financing project which successfully raised US$40 million, SEC compliance work, and standby equity line of credit and in the sale of US$35 million in senior convertible notes to two financial services firms. Represented the company in its aborted “going private” transaction.
• Represented a US-listed China domestic chicken farm company in its PIPE financing project which successfully raised US$21 million, SEC compliance work, and migration of registration of securities from the OTCBB to the NASDAQ Capital Market.
• Represented a NASDAQ-listed Chinese medical products manufacturer in a US$9.7 million underwritten public offering of 1.6 million shares of its common stock and its migration of registration of securities from the OTCBB to the NYSE Amex. The migration involved a one-for-two reverse stock split of common stock, its SEC compliance work, and its US$29 million “going-private” transaction.
• Represented an OTCBB listed Chinese telephone back light manufacturer in its fund raising and subsequent listing through a reverse merger, and its subsequent delisting.
• Represented a pharmaceutical research and development company in its issue of 3.5% convertible notes due 2012, and the proposed acquisition of common stock of Commonwealth Biotechnologies Inc., a Virginia company quoted on NASDAQ.
• Represented a global investment banking & asset management, as sole book running lead manager, in a US$74.9 million underwritten offering of the common stock of SmartHeat Inc. a NASDAQ-listed company with operations in China.
• Represented a global investment banking & asset management, as sole book running lead manager, in a US$66 million underwritten offering of the common stock of Deer Consumer Products Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company with operations in China.
• Advised Solomon Systech (International) Limited, a Hong Kong-listed company engaged in the design, development and sales of proprietary IC products and system solutions, in the strategic acquisition of Microchip Technology Incorporated’s innovative and high-performance display technologies for an aggregate cash consideration of US$23 million.
• Represented buyer of the brand name MUDD and its retail business and relocation of manufacturing to China and subsequent resale of the brand to a portfolio investor.
• Represented buyer of the brand DYSAN floppy disk and its business and relocation to China, subsequent listing in Hong Kong and purchase of the MAGNAVOX brand name.
• Represented Hong Kong and Chinese textile and electric fan manufacturers in US anti-dumping investigation and Special and Section 301 investigation of Hong Kong companies.
• Represented independent Canadian drilling company in a billion-dollar arbitration against a Chinese state owned oil company for breach of contract.
• Represented Japanese and foreign banks in lending transactions.
• Represented international financial banking institutions in the structuring and sale of promissory notes issued by Middle East state institutions to Korean construction companies.

Mr. Luk received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), summa cum laude, from Columbia College, New York, USA in 1975 and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Columbia University School of Law, New York, USA in 1978, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Mr. Luk is admitted to the bar in New York and Hong Kong.