№ 01 / H2 Advisory

Capital, considered.
Across borders.

H2 Advisory is a Malaysia-based corporate finance advisory consultancy. We advise on mergers, divestitures, listings, restructuring and cross-border transactions — built around the deal experience of our founder, who has led or advised on transactions across more than fifteen jurisdictions over twenty-five years as an investment banker and a listed-company corporate-finance principal.

25+
Years of senior CF experience
15+
Jurisdictions executed in
30+
Transactions led or advised
Shah Alam, Selangor · Malaysia Mandate-led · Principal-led
§ Why H2 Advisory

A consultancy built around one principal — not a pyramid.

No. 01

Principal-led, end to end

The Managing Director is the practitioner. There is no analyst-to-partner relay and no junior handover — the principal you meet leads the work through to close.

No. 02

Adviser and operator

Twenty-five years split between investment banking and the in-house Head of Group Corporate Services role at a Bursa Malaysia–listed multinational. Mandates have been lived from both sides.

No. 03

Cross-border depth

Direct execution experience across Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, France, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, China, Japan, Korea, the Middle East and beyond.

No. 04

Discretion by design

A single-principal practice means a single point of confidentiality. Counterparty names and deal economics are not part of marketing materials.

§ Core Expertise

Where mandates from twenty-five years are concentrated.

No. 01

Cross-Border M&A

Buy-side, sell-side and divestitures executed across DACH, ASEAN, Greater China, LatAm and the UK. Antitrust clearance experience including the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt).

Sell-sideBuy-sideCross-borderAntitrust
No. 02

IPOs & Listings

IPO-readiness review, structuring and adviser-coordination support — drawing on prior lead-adviser experience for listings on Bursa Malaysia (ACE Market and Main Market), the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX), including a novel composite Frankfurt listing combined with a rights issue and offer for sale.

BursaFrankfurtSIXRights issues
No. 03

Restructuring & Special Situations

Court-sanctioned schemes under s.176/GWRS, debt restructuring, structured insolvency and cross-border wind-downs across the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Thailand and Taiwan.

s.176GWRSDistressed M&A
No. 04

Strategic Capital Advisory

Private placements, rights issues, capital repayments, distributions-in-specie and fairness-opinion coordination — structured for both regulatory robustness and shareholder return.

PE placementsRights issuesCapital repayments
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§ The Principal

Twenty-five years of corporate-finance mandates, advised and lived.

Ho Ming Hon is the Managing Director of H2 Advisory. He spent the first part of his career as a senior investment banker advising Bursa Malaysia–listed PLCs on IPOs and restructuring, and the second part as Head of Group Corporate Services at a Bursa-listed multinational stationery group — leading its cross-border M&A, its Frankfurt Stock Exchange listing, and ultimately its EUR 168m flagship divestiture and MYR 695m capital repayment to shareholders.

Mandates have included transactions in Germany, Switzerland, the UK, France, Belgium, Italy, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and the Middle East.

Ho Ming Hon, Managing Director of H2 Advisory
§ Selected Track Record

Transactions led across two and a half decades.

All counterparty names withheld under standing confidentiality obligations. Transaction details disclosed only to a level consistent with public filings.

2023 · Flagship Cross-Border Divestiture
~EUR 168m

Sale of a European stationery & brand portfolio to a French strategic buyer

c.12,000 SKUs across two heritage brands; operations across Europe, LatAm, MENA and Asia. EUR 136m cash + EUR 31.8m debt assumption.

2014–2015 · Frankfurt Listing & Rights Issue
~EUR 266m / ~RM390m

First-of-its-kind Frankfurt Stock Exchange listing combined with a rights issue and offer for sale

Composite structure understood to be the first of its kind in Germany. Lead — transaction architecture, BaFin engagement, jurisdictional sequencing.

2021 · Property Disposal & Special Distribution
~EUR 81m / ~RM399m

Disposal of a German logistics centre to a US property fund

Followed by a 20-sen special cash distribution to shareholders aggregating ~RM120m.

2005 · Reverse Takeover
~RM330m

Listing transformation — acquisition of a global writing-instruments group

Transformed a Bursa-listed entity from logistics into a global stationery principal.

2019 · Private Placement
MYR 21m

Placement to a Singapore-headquartered ASEAN PE firm

PE investor realised ~269% total return over four years (~67% p.a.) on subsequent divestiture and capital repayment.

2002–2003 · GWRS

Court-sanctioned debt restructuring of a Malaysian steel-and-diversified-industrial group (4 listed entities)

Scheme under s.176(3) of the Companies Act 1965. Trading resumption 1 April 2003.

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Speak with H2 Advisory in confidence.

Mandate reviews are handled by the Managing Director directly. We reply within two business days, and only after we are satisfied that we can be useful.