Middletons has announced the appointment of partner Sandra Steele, former assistant general counsel at Lend Lease, who will join the firm’s Property, Development & Construction group in Sydney. Sandra is making the move back to private practice after a six year stint at Lend Lease where she provided strategic leadership and management of the company’s in-house legal practice (more…)
Hogan Lovells advised General Electric (“GE“) on the financing and equity aspects of a US$122 million 50MW wind farm in Salkhit, Mongolia, the first renewable energy independent power project in Mongolia (more…)
ASIA MARKETS – HALFTIME REPORT It’s a beautiful summer here in Hong Kong, with the monsoons (winds) blowing all of the nasty pollution away from city’s skies and upward into southern China. This weather pattern generally means that Hong Kong summer skies will often be a clear robin’s egg blue, even if the heat and [...]
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it advised Ascendas Land International as the sponsor, Ascendas Hospitality Fund Management as the manager and Ascendas Hospitality Trust Management as the trustee-manager on Ascendas Hospitality Trust’s (“Ascendas Hospitality”) offering of its stapled securities on the Singapore Exchange. Ascendas Hospitality is a Singapore-based REIT and the hospitality arm of Ascendas Group, Asia’s leading provider of business space solutions (more…)
The Firm represented Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. in connection with a Regulation S offering of US$1.5 billion of 4.2% Subordinated Notes due 2022 by Mizuho Financial Group (Cayman) 2 Limited, a wholly owned finance subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group (more…)
Goltsblat BLP, the Russian practice of international law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), is pleased to announce the appointment of Kyle Davis as a partner in its Corporate/M&A Practice (more…)
Mayer Brown JSM advised Hong Kong-listed China State Construction International Holdings Limited (CSCI) on its top-up placement of 300 million shares to independent third parties at approximately HK$7.57 per share, raising approximately HK$2.2 billion (more…)
King & Wood Mallesons has strengthened its Native Title practice with the lateral appointment of partner Scott Singleton to the firm’s Brisbane office (more…)
The Singapore office of Watson, Farley & Williams LLP (“WFW”) is pleased to announce that it has advised Brunei Gas Carriers Sdn Bhd (“BGC”) on the raising of US$170 million to fund the acquisition of one 155,000m3 newbuild LNG vessel. The vessel will be chartered under a long term charter to Brunei LNG Sdn Bhd. WFW also advised BGC on the shipbuilding contract, shipping services agreements and charter documents for the newbuild LNG vessel (more…)
International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer today appointed Gang Yuan (袁钢) as Head of Energy and Natural Resources in China (more…)
International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised on the concurrent dual listing of Integrated Healthcare Berhad (IHH) in Malaysia and Singapore (more…)
Herbert Smith has advised Italian energy company Eni on its agreement with Russian state oil company Rosneft to finance oil and gas exploration at three offshore fields. The landmark deal was signed on 16th July at a meeting between Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Italian counterpart Mario Monti (more…)
