Norman P. Ho is an associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Hong Kong office. His practice focuses on a wide range of capital markets matters, including debt and equity capital markets transactions, as well as private equity transactions, securities law compliance, and general corporate matters. He also currently serves as an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Norman was a junior fellow at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, as well as Asia Placements Coordinator of the New York University (NYU) School of Law Global Immersion Program, where he assisted with developing the law school’s student immersion programs in Singapore and China.
A published author on topics relating to comparative corporate law, debt capital markets, Chinese law, and Chinese legal history, Norman’s writings have appeared in journals such as the Tsinghua China Law Review, the Journal of International Business and Law, the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, and the Harvard International Review. He has taught Chinese history at Peking and Tsinghua universities and has lectured at the Asia Research Institute (National University of Singapore), the Singapore Management University School of Law, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Norman received his J.D. from NYU School of Law, where he received the Howard Greenberger Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Comparative Law and also served as a notes editor on the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics. He received both his A.M. (in Regional Studies-East Asia) and A.B. degrees (cum laude in History) from Harvard University, where his studies focused on premodern Chinese legal and intellectual history.
Norman is qualified to practice in New York. He is fluent in English and Mandarin.