Jason Lo
Senior AssociateJason Lo is a trusted legal advisor to multinational and regional employers on a diverse array of complex, and often cross-border, employment law matters, spanning both contentious and non-contentious issues.
His clients may be listed companies and come from a broad range of sectors including in consumers goods and retail, energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare, insurance and technology.
His experience encompasses supporting clients on various high-stakes and sensitive employment matters, including workplace investigations, disciplinary processes and c-suite executive exits. He is known for his thorough, detail-oriented approach and his ability to guide clients through competing reputational, regulatory and litigation risks in a coordinated, commercially pragmatic manner.
On the contentious side, his experience includes rigorously defending employers on matters involving employment status, wrongful dismissal, discrimination, workplace injuries, employee entitlements, and contractual disputes. He also regularly assists employers with the enforcement of restrictive covenants.
Jason’s non-contentious practice spans the full employment lifecycle. He advises on employment contract and policy drafting, redundancy and restructuring exercises, employment transfers, benefit plans, work visa applications and general employment advice on the most contemporary issues impacting the workforce. He has also supported multinational clients on cross-border workforce issues, including secondments, split employment arrangements, and global mobility projects, often coordinating with overseas counsel to deliver compliant solutions.
He is also consistently involved in employment law aspects of M&A transactions and coordinating various employment due diligence exercises across multiple jurisdictions.
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, PCLL
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, JD
- University of Calgary, BComm
EXPERIENCE
- Advising a listed energy trading company in de-fending against claims for payment in lieu of no-tice and annual leave pay brought by their former Chief Executive Officer.
- Advising a global assistance and insurance ser-vices company in exiting its Chief Executive Officer and various other senior tenured employees who were alleged to have engaged or were involved in several fraudulent practices.
- Advising a major gig-economy platform on a range of key business issues, including employment/independent contractor status and strategic advice on how to mitigate misclassification risks.
- Advising a leading news services provider in defending against an employees' compensation claim.
- Advising a leading recruitment services firm on the enforcement of a former employee's confidentiality obligations.
- Advising a global digital entertainment company on a redundancy exercise involving the termination of employment of a statutory director.
- Advising an international tutoring institution on the exit of its executive chairman.
- Advising a global animal health products company on the exit of a long-standing employee holding various roles in both Hong Kong and the PRC.
- Advised a global cosmetic brand on all aspects in relation to the disciplinary matter including reviewing and advising on their disciplinary poli-cy and process and preparing disciplinary meeting invitation letters and scripts.
- Advising a leading Chinese technology company on a broad range of employment law matters including:
- reviewing their current practices as to unpaid leave and time off for 9 APAC jurisdictions;
- reviewing their employment certificates for the inclusion of bonus-related information for 10 EMEA jurisdictions;
- reviewing their remuneration/bonus policy for 7 EMEA jurisdictions;
- standardizing sign-on bonus clauses in their employment contract templates for 19 jurisdictions spread across EMEA and APAC;
- reviewing the notice period clauses in their employment contract templates for 21 jurisdictions spread across NA, EMEA and APAC;
- removing a special bonus for employees based in 9 jurisdictions spread across EMEA and APAC; and
- structuring their internship programs across 6 APAC jurisdictions.
- English
- Chinese (Cantonese)