Lo, Karen Ki Yan 羅琪茵

Can a Cyan River be far away? The announcement reveals that CST (0985) now owns 17.35% of Green River. It was formerly 100% owned by Planetree (0613) which in 2020 sold 60% (now 49.59%) to Alice Yu Man Fung. At the time, Planetree stated that Ms Yu and Karen Lo Ki Yan, controlling shareholder of Planetree, "have known each other for many years". The announcement also reveals that GRA owns 32% of SHOG Creation Ltd, which owns 19.89% of Oshidori (0622). We can add that 55% of that entity is held by Paul Suen Cho Hung, although it was last known as "Seekers Creation Ltd".

The other 75% is owned by Future Master Investments Ltd, ultimately owned 82.19% by Karen Lo Ki Yan and 17.81% by Oshidori (0622). We note that on 18-Jul-2022, Blue River borrowed HK$75m from Imagi Lenders Ltd, which is a non-wholly owned subsidiary of Imagi (0585), which is 21% owned by Oshidori.

Maxlord is owned 2/3 by Planetree and 1/3 by Blue River (0498). This facility follows an earlier 12-month HK$100m facility on 6-Jan-2022 at the HSBC prime rate. Planetree is 66.87% owned by Future Capital Group Ltd, which was 100% owned by Karen Lo Ki Yan until 17-Feb-2022, when Oshidori agreed to invest HK$750m for a 17.81% stake.

The applications of Eugene Chuang Yue Chien and 5 others to appeal a judgment and order for production of documents and private examination is refused. The liquidators are trying to discover what happened to over HK$2.8bn of net assets in the "impugned transactions". Unfortunately, the judgment to which this refers, [2021] HKCFI 1247, and a decision of that judge also refusing leave to appeal, [2021] HKCFI 2968, are not available.

The lender, Maxlord Enterprises, is 33.33% owned by Blue River (0498) and 66.67% by Planetree, which is 67.22% owned by Karen Lo Ki Yan. On 30-Dec-2021, Mr Kitchell bought 28.53% of Blue River from Oshidori (0622) for HK$160m. He is Chairman of Imagi (0585), which is 21.31% owned by Oshidori. On 17-Feb-2022, Oshidori invested HK$750m in 17.81% of Future Capital Group Ltd, which until then was 100% owned by Ms Lo. Blue River owns 48.23% of Paul Y. Engineering Group Ltd, of which Mr Chan owns 51.76%, including 10% held via Elemet Ltd, as at 4-Nov-2021. Blue River in Dec-2021 terminated a proposed purchase of his total stake in PYE after the Stock Exchange classified it as a Reverse Takeover.

Prior to this, the target was 100% owned by Karen Lo Ki Yan. It "principally engages in property investments". Oshidori is 19.89% owned by Peak Trust Company - NV of Nevada for "Oshidori Kyushu Children's Trust" and 9.41% by Viola Mak Siu Hang via VMS Investment Group Ltd.

Mr Chuang's application for leave to appeal against the dismissal by the Court of First Instance of his appeal against extension of a writ is dismissed.

Mr Chuang's application for leave to appeal against the extension of an unserved writ is dismissed.

"If the respondents' evidence is taken at face value, none of them has any meaningful information, documents or recollection of what happened to the Company's HK$2.86 billion worth of assets, who was involved and who benefited from the Divesting Transactions - a case of collective amnesia."

"Extraordinarily, the Liquidators were denied access to any books and records of the Company upon their appointment. They were even refused entry to the Company’s premises and escorted away by security guards…"

CEGFL also gets a seat on the board of Simagi.

A Friday night announcement illustrates all that is wrong with HK's Listing Rules for closed-end funds.

A collapse in a hub of the "Chung Nam Network" has wiped about HK$2bn off the balance sheets of at least 11 listed companies, many of which never announced that they had invested in it. We piece together an ugly jigsaw and call on the SFC to investigate and HKEX to wake up and require announcements.

Mason doesn't say who owns the Purchaser, which it claims is an independent third party. The last time we heard (30-Jan-2009) it was controlled by Eugene Chuang Yue Chien, who is the brother of Henry Chuang Yueheng, who was Chairman of Mason until 1-Aug-2015. Under the Listing Rules, he remains a connected person for 1 year after that, and so does his brother, being his "associate". If the ownership of Capital Union has not changed, then this should be a connected transaction. Update: the circular on 23-Jun-2016 discloses 5 owners with 20% each (including a cousin) and denies any involvement of the brothers. It also reveals that Enerchina (0622) holds 5.44% of Co-Lead. Ristora Investments Ltd (owned by Karen Lo, wife of Eugene Chuang) has acquired West West Ltd (which CSPT (0139) sold to an unnamed party in Sep-2015), holding 5.32% of Co-Lead, and 210 shares (3.69%) once held by National Investments Fund (1227).

This recent filing under the Takeovers Code shows that the director of Ristora was Karen Lo Ki Yan. Ristora sold 45m shares of HEC Capital Ltd to Hao Tian for HK$270m.

An initial purchase of 77m shares (20.23%) from HEC Capital Ltd, which owns 100%, with subscription options to reach 51%, in effect a backdoor listing. The filing reveals that Cordoba's stake in Allied Weli Development Ltd (fka Hennabun Capital Group Ltd) valued at HK$1609m, was distributed to HECC in the year to Mar-2013. The stake was 47.96% at last dislcosure, 18-Sep-2012. Top current HECC holders are disclosed. We can add that Ristora is or was owned by Karen Lo Ki Yan and Quinella is or was owned by Lynn Hsieh Cheng Lu. Update: the deal was aborted on 29-Nov-2013.

The vendor's owner is not disclosed, but in a previous filing, as of 15-Jan-2012, it was Karen Lo Ki Yan.

Before this, Cordoba is owned as follows: 40.71% owned by "a listed company". That is Willie (0273), 17.57% by Hennabun, into which Enerchina has already sunk HK$200m, and 32.94% and 8.78% owned by "two private companies". The last time we heard, those are Ristora Investments and Supreme Castle Investments, owned by Karen Lo Ki Yan and Paul Suen Cho Hung respectively. Enerchina is now firmly part of what we call the "Chung Nam Network".

She paid HK$100m on 15-Dec-2009, $50m on 16-Mar-2010 and $30m today. That leaves $275m outstanding, now extended to 31-Mar-2011.

Regarding the HK$450m subscription, the outstanding amount of HK$300m is extended to 16-Sep-2010 in return for a payment of HK$5m.

Assets include a yacht, artwork, paintings and a 10 carat diamond! According to a circular dated 23-Aug-07, the diamond was purchased from Karen Lo Ki Yan on 23-Apr-07 for $10m.

Note: at the time of this transaction, Hero City was a subsidiary of Hennabun which was controlled by Freeman. On 21-Dec-05, Hennabun acquired Collier Assets Ltd, which owned the house via Apex Novel Ltd, for $49m, being $85m for the house less bank loan of $36m. Collier Assets was formerly owned by Karen Lo Ki Yan.

The SFC writes: "we note a very close relationship between the shareholders of the Company and its investments". At the suspended price of $1.34, the closed-end investment company was trading at 9.24x its NAV of 30-Sep-2003.

MTD owns 726.918m shares (23.33%) of Hansom Eastern (0279) so the effective price is $0.0241 per Hansom share. On 20-Dec-2002, the stock closed at $0.033. The pair bought the controlling stake in Hansom from ITC Corp (0372) for HK$180m on 10-Nov-2000. There has since been a 2:1 rights issue at $0.10, costing MTD HK$48.5m.

Another entity, Equity Spin Investments Ltd, has agreed to subscribe 10m shares, purportedly on the same date, at an unspecified price. Later a circular stated that Equity Spin signed up on 27-Mar-2001 and at the 67% higher price of HK$5 per share taking into account "different prevailing factors". There's no evidence of that, because the deal was not announced in March and had not completed by the time it was announced. It later emerged that Equity Spin is owned by Hansom Eastern (0279), the largest shareholder of which is jointly controlled by Karen Lo Ki Yan and Cindy Yau Shum Tek.

The effective price is HK$0.743 per share, a 207% premium to market. The entire board of directors is being replaced, but there will be no general offer as the Takeover offer trigger is 35%, so this is a takeunder. $70m of the payment is deferred for 6 months.