Ray Hou

Ray Tang Hou is an associate in the Antirust and Foreign Investment Group. His practice focuses on U.S. regulatory and compliance matters in connection with cross-border transactions, focusing on issues antitrust, competition, foreign investment. Ray draws on his professional experience in, and academic study of, East Asia.

Work highlights

• Perfetti van Melle: advised on United States merger control issues related to its proposed $1.35B acquisition of Mondelez International Inc.’s developed-market gum business.
• Schaeffler AG: advised on its acquisition of Ewellix AB, a producer of linear motion and actuation solutions.
• Körber AG: advised on its €1.15B acquisition of Siemens Logistics’ global mail and parcel business.
• Jagex Ltd.: advised on its acquisition of Pipeworks Studios from Sumo Group.
• State-owned enterprise: analyzed foreign sovereign immunity issues related to potential antitrust exposure from Congressional legislative proposal.
• Major Japanese multinational bank: advised on antitrust and foreign investment risk connected with transaction financing. 

Prior to joining Linklaters, Ray was an intern at the World Bank’s Legal Vice Presidency within the East and South Asia Group. Before law school, Ray interned in Asia, including the Taipei office of PwC and the Beijing office of a Chinese law firm.

Ray received his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Online Development Editor for the Virginia Journal of International Law, Vice President of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, and the Memorialist for the Jessup Moot Court. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he double majored in Physics and History. Ray is also a 2020 Salzburg Cutler Fellow and is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

Big changes in outbound foreign investment to China, PE Hub, August 30, 2023.

Revisiting and reshaping: A year of change in US antitrust policy and enforcement, Competition Law Insight, January 11, 2023.

How Will Chinese Companies React to the HFCAA? GMT Research, June 17, 2020.