We currently have a number of active openings for associate roles at US and UK firms in HK / China, Singapore and two new in-house openings. As always, please feel free to reach out to us at asia@kinneyrecruiting.com in order to get details of current openings in Asia, as well as to discuss the Asia markets in general and what we expect for openings later this year. Our Evan Jowers and Robert Kinney will be in Beijing the week of March 25 and Evan Jowers will be in Hong Kong the week of April 1, if you would like to meet them in person.

The US associate openings we have in law firms are in the usual areas of M&A, cap markets, FCPA / white collar litigation, finance, and project finance. The most urgent of our top tier (top 15 US or magic circle) law firm openings in Asia (among many other firm openings that we have in Asia) are as follows:

• 2nd to 5th year mandarin fluent M&A associates needed in Beijing and Hong Kong at several firms;
• Korean fluent 2nd to 4th year cap markets associate needed in Hong Kong;
• 2nd to 5th year Japanese fluent M&A associates needed in Tokyo;
• 4th to 6th year mandarin fluent cap markets associate needed in Hong Kong;
• 2nd to 4th year M&A / cap markets mix associate needed in Singapore (more…)

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Sidley advised San Miguel Corporation (SMC) in its $800M overseas bond offering, which set a record as the largest U.S. dollar-denominated corporate bond issue out of the Philippines (more…)

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Chadbourne & Parke acted as the key legal advisor to investment firm Yi-Ko Holding GmbH in its acquisition from Burger King Worldwide Inc. of its wholly-owned subsidiary Burger King GmbH and its 91 company-owned Burger King restaurants in Germany. As part of the transaction, Yi-Ko Holding GmbH agreed to develop new Burger King restaurants during the next five years and remodel an additional 57 Burger King restaurants during the next 18 months. Burger King is the second largest fast food hamburger restaurant chain in the world (more…)

www.chadbourne.com

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Ropes & Gray is representing the Blackstone-led buyer group consortium in the going-private transaction of China-based Pactera Technology International Ltd. (Pactera) (more…)

www.ropesgray.com

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Simpson Thacher is representing a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (“Temasek”), in connection with its participation in a consortium led by CITIC Capital Partners to acquire AsiaInfo-Linkage Inc. (“AsiaInfo-Linkage”). AsiaInfo-Linkage has entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which the consortium will acquire AsiaInfo-Linkage for $12.00 in cash per AsiaInfo-Linkage share of common stock. The transaction values AsiaInfo-Linkage at approximately $890 million (more…)

www.stblaw.com

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Herbert Smith Freehills is pleased to announce that it is advising Brockman Iron Pty Ltd on its application for third party access to the rail infrastructure owned by Fortescue Metals Group’s wholly owned subsidiary, The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd (TPI) (more…)

www.herbertsmithfreehills.com

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Eversheds has announced the launch of its Beijing office, opening on 20 May 2013, with the appointment of two new partners: corporate energy law expert Ingrid Zhu-Clark and corporate lawyer Jay Ze (more…)

press.eversheds.com

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KWM has acted on the launch of Virtus Health’s $339m raising which has signalled a revival of the dormant Australian IPO market (more…)

www.mallesons.com

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King & Wood Mallesons has advised GE Real Estate Investments Australia on its divestment of part of its office portfolio to Mirvac Group for approximately $584 million as the business transitions its focus towards debt financing (more…)

www.mallesons.com

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Herbert Smith Freehills is advising Metcash on its acquisition of the Australian Truck and Auto Parts Group (ATAP), which includes Auto Brake Service (ABS), for approximately $84 million, including transaction costs (more…)

www.herbertsmithfreehills.com

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it is representing Nomura, Bank of Taiwan, Cathay United Bank, Co., LTD., ICBC International Capital Limited and Maybank Investment Bank Berhad, as mandated lead arrangers in connection with the US$330 million debt financing for AsiaInfo-Linkage, Inc.’s take-private acquisition by a consortium led by Chinese private equity company CITIC Capital Partners in an all-cash deal valued at approximately US$890 million (more…)

www.paulhastings.com

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A team of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys is advising CITIC PE in relation to the management buyout of AsiaInfo-Linkage by a consortium that would take the company private (more…)

www.akingump.com

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Stamford Law bulks up its market-leading practice with the addition of Mr. Lim Sin Teck to its corporate practice (more…)

www.stamfordlaw.com.sg

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