The Firm is representing Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc. (Nasdaq: HMIN) (“Home Inns”) in connection with its announced acquisition of Motel 168 International Holdings Limited (“Motel 168”) for a total of US$470 million in cash and ordinary shares (more…)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has advised OCI Company Ltd. (“OCI”) in the issue of 14,888,000 global depositary receipts (“GDR”) which are to be listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (more…)
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP, a recognized leader in antitrust and competition law, today announced that Brussels partner Frank Schoneveld has relocated to MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai as part of a coordinated global effort to enhance the firms’ joint competition capabilities (more…)
International law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Jingzhou Tao will join the firm as a partner in Beijing on June 1. Mr. Tao is currently a partner with Jones Day. He will be part of both Dechert’s International Arbitration and Corporate & Securities practices. Mr. Tao will be the Managing Partner responsible for developing the Asia practice (more…)
DLA Piper has advised the issuer Milan Station Holdings Limited (“Milan Station” HKSE: 01150) on its initial public offering (IPO) on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (more…)
Shanghai and Hong Kong, May 27, 2011, King & Wood advised Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and CICC as joint sponsors and joint bookrunners of Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding’ s HK$15.2 billion (or US$1.95 billion) H Share IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on May 20, 2011 (more…)
Gilbert + Tobin and Perth based resources law firm, Blakiston & Crabb, today announced their official integration under the Gilbert + Tobin banner (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP has served as international counsel to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, ICICI Securities, and JM Financial, the underwriters in the US$1 billion further public offering of the shares of Power Finance Corporation Limited. The team was led by O’Melveny counsel Pooja Sinha and partner David Makarechian, both based in the Firm’s Singapore office (more…)
WilmerHale has advised Yandex, the leading Internet company in Russia, on its $1.4 billion initial public offering and listing on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (more…)
King & Spalding advised the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) on a benchmark USD750 million sukuk that has been dual-listed on the London Stock Exchange and Bursa Malaysia. The transaction closed today (more…)
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has expanded its international Corporate practice in China with the appointment of partner Eric Lin (more…)
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, a leading global law firm, announced today that it has advised Mingfa Group (International) Company Limited (“Mingfa Group”), a leading PRC investment company focusing on property development, in its issuance of HK$1,560,000,000 – approximately US$200 million – in convertible bonds (more…)
