Middletons acted on behalf of the sellers of the Australian and Southeast Asian generic pharmaceutical business, Ascent Pharmahealth. Ascent’s businesses operate as Ascent Pharmaceuticals in Australia and across Asia under the banners of DHA (Drug Houses of Australia) and Ascent Pharmahealth Asia (more…)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce Hardeep Plahe is joining its Dubai office as a partner. Plahe, having practiced with Linklaters in Dubai, will continue his corporate practice in the Middle East, advising on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and financial regulation issues (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day has announced that it has continued the expansion of its Dubai Office with the hire of leading regional real estate and project development lawyer Duane Keighran (more…)
Stamford Law scored the lead role in advising SGX-listed United Fiber System (‘UFS’) in a S$1.5 billion reverse takeover transaction by which UFS will acquire 67% of IDX-listed coal mining Golden Energy Mines (‘GEMS’) from IDX-listed leading energy and infrastructure company, Dian Swastatika Sentosa (‘DSS’) (more…)
Happy Chinese New Year! We were extremely busy the past few months, including most of our US based team working from our Hong Kong offices during November and December. As a follow up from our recent post, which listed our 62 US associate and counsel placements in Asia last year (vast majority in HK / [...]
Hogan Lovells has bolstered its top-ranked projects practice with the hire of high-profile Asia finance partner Bruce Schulberg, who will join Hogan Lovells on 30 January (more…)
Freehills has hired Competition and Antitrust partner Daniel Preston just months after promoting Patrick Gay to the partnership, confirming Freehills’ move toward the standout Competition practice in the country (more…)
Mallesons Stephen Jaques, a leading law firm in the Asian region, starts 2012 with greater partner depth and a significantly enhanced leadership team (more…)
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised a seller formed by funds advised by CVC Asia Pacific (CVC) on its sale of Minit Asia Pacfic Co. Ltd (Minit Asia) to a purchaser formed by the private equity fund, Unison Capital I, L.P (more…)
The international law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP further expands its Middle East practice with the addition of project finance partner Dominic Harvey and five new associates (more…)
Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm, in conjunction with the Dubai office of Clifford Chance LLP, have advised the Saudi Arabian General Authority of Civil Aviation (“GACA”) in relation to the issuance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of a SAR15 billion (approximately US$4 billion) sukuk due 2022 (the “Sukuk”) (more…)
Mallesons has added another international gold deal to our track record, advising the privately owned Chinese corporation, Reignwood International Investment Group, on its agreement to invest $50 million into Citigold Corporation to fund the development of its 10 million ounce gold mine at Charters Towers, Queensland (more…)
