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Ho Ming Hon

Founder · Managing Director

Ho Ming Hon is the founder and Managing Director of H2 Advisory. He has spent more than twenty-five years in senior corporate-finance roles, split almost evenly between investment banking and the in-house Head of Group Corporate Services position at a Bursa Malaysia–listed multinational.

Foundations — CPA & Price Waterhouse

Ming Hon is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) by profession. He began his career at Price Waterhouse in Audit and Business Advisory, continuing through the firm’s global merger to become PricewaterhouseCoopers — where he was first exposed to the rigour of financial reporting, valuation and the cross-jurisdictional work that would later define his M&A practice.

First decade — Investment Banking

From the early 2000s, Ming Hon advised Bursa Malaysia–listed PLCs and their controlling shareholders on initial public offerings, reverse takeovers, distributions-in-specie and court-sanctioned restructuring. Mandates included the IPO of a mobile-messaging technology company on the ACE Market that ranked among the best-performing listings of its year (+422% within months), the court-sanctioned group-wide restructuring scheme of a Malaysian steel-and-diversified-industrial group covering four Bursa-listed entities, and the RM 4.3 billion distribution-in-specie demerger of a major Malaysian retail group.

Second decade — In-House Principal

From 2005 onwards he was the Head of Group Corporate Services of a Bursa Malaysia–listed multinational stationery and writing-instruments group, leading its cross-border M&A, capital-markets activity and restructuring through to its eventual divestiture. Programmes included the ~RM 330m reverse-takeover acquisition of a Swiss-headquartered global writing-instruments group; the ~RM 215m acquisition of a German heritage stationery group; the ~EUR 266m Frankfurt Stock Exchange listing of a German operating subsidiary — combined with a rights issue and offer for sale, understood to be the first transaction of its kind in Germany; a multi-year UK and Swiss pensions defence carried through the UK High Court, Swiss High Court and Swiss bankruptcy proceedings; the ~EUR 81m disposal of a German logistics property to a US fund and associated ~RM 399m special distribution to shareholders; and ultimately the 2023 flagship cross-border divestiture of the European stationery portfolio for ~EUR 168m, followed by a ~MYR 695m capital repayment.

Today

Ho Ming Hon founded H2 Advisory to make that mandate-led, principal-side experience available to a select group of clients — founders considering an exit, listed-company boards contemplating cross-border M&A, sponsors needing a senior practitioner who has lived through the long-tail workstreams that make a divestiture actually close.