Global law firm White & Case LLP is advising Haier Group on the acquisition of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd’s consumer and commercial use washing machine businesses, its consumer use refrigerator business, and its white goods sales divisions in Japan and South East Asia (more…)
The Firm recently represented subsidiaries of funds advised by Apax Partners in acquiring the Golden Jaguar restaurant chain (“Golden Jaguar”) in the People’s Republic of China (more…)
Davis Polk advised a group of six shareholders of NVC Lighting Holding Limited, a company listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (NVC), comprising SB Asia Investment Fund II L.P., GS Direct, L.L.C., NVC Inc. (a company which is beneficially owned by the chairman and founder of NVC), Signkey Group Limited, Mr. Andrew Y. Yan and Mr. Ho-Ping Lin (Mr. Yan and Mr. Lin being both directors of NVC) in their disposal of an aggregate of 288,371,000 shares in NVC for an aggregate consideration of US$163 million to Schneider Electric Asia Pacific Limited, a strategic investor whose affiliate also entered into a strategic cooperation agreement of sales network with NVC as part of the overall transaction (more…)
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised GMR Energy (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (formerly known as Island Power) on the SG$1 billion greenfield financing of an 800-megawatt power project on Jurong Island, Singapore (more…)
Dewey & LeBoeuf has advised Credit Europe Bank NV, Credit Europe Bank Ltd, ZAO Raiffeisenbank (Moscow) and Raiffeisen Bank International AG (Vienna) on the $280 million refinancing of the acquisition of Moscow’s Ritz Carlton Hotel by Verny Capital (Kazakhstan) (more…)
International law firm Hogan Lovells acted as international counsel to Gulf International Bank B.S.C. (GIB), as sole booker runner and joint lead manager, in relation to a US$215 million sukuk issuance for Qatar’s Almana Group W.L.L (Almana). Barwa Bank Q.S.C., the International Bank of Qatar Q.S.C. and Qatar Islamic Bank S.A.Q. also acted as joint lead managers for the issuance (more…)
Please check out our daily blog, www.theasiachronicles.com, where we also have a new post today by Alexis Lamb, regarding the rising need for US litigation associates in Asia, among our numerous daily news posts on international biglaw in Asia. Here we are in the traditional vacation time of July and August, when interview processes can [...]
Allens Arthur Robinson (Allens) has advised Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) on the sale of its stake in toll road operator Transurban Group for A$903 million (more…)
Allens Arthur Robinson (Allens) is advising China’s largest gold producer Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd (Zijin) on its A$27.7 million investment in ASX listed Norton Gold Fields (Norton) (more…)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Orrick) has advised Intime Department Store (Group) Company Limited (Intime) in relation to an offering of Renminbi (RMB) 1 billion 4.65% guaranteed bonds due 2014 which are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with a Regulation S placement to global investors (more…)
Shearman & Sterling is representing Simcere Pharmaceutical Group in its establishment of a strategic partnership with Merck & Co., Inc., acting through an affiliate and known as Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. outside the United States and Canada, focused on providing significantly improved access to quality medicines in major therapeutic areas in China. The partnership includes an equity joint venture that will be owned 51% by an affiliate of Merck and 49% by Simcere or one of its affiliates (more…)
Alexis Lamb here. Midsummer is a mighty fine time to be in Hong Kong and July is one splendid month to be sitting on a junk in the middle of the South China Sea with 30 of your closest friends and a sea-breeze in hand. Fortunately for all you Asia-minded US litigators, the number of [...]
