Herbert Smith has recently advised China Shenhua Energy Company Limited on the acquisition of various mining companies and assets from its controlling shareholder Shenhua Group Company Limited
Read moreMallesons Acts on Purchase of Renowned Australian Attractions
Mallesons Stephen Jaques has acted for Merlin Entertainments Group on its agreement with Village Roadshow Limited (Village) to buy Village’s aquarium and attractions businesses
Read moreMiddletons Appoints New Special Counsel to its Growing Corporate & Commercial Group
Formerly legal counsel at Primary Health Care and prior, long serving partner at Gadens lawyers, Clive Cachia has been appointed to the position of special counsel at Middletons in the Corporate & Commercial group
Read moreDLA Phillips Fox Perth Office Move Accommodates Growth in WA
Leading Australian business law firm DLA Phillips Fox has relocated to new premises in Perth, taking levels 30 and 31 of Central Park on St Georges Terrace. This reflects strong growth for the firm and
Read moreDLA Phillips Fox Joins Reconciliation Australia to Close the Gap Between Indigenous and Non-indigenous Australians
DLA Phillips Fox has committed to work with Reconciliation Australia and to join other businesses, including clients and others in the legal fraternity, in developing a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)
Read moreOrrick Advises SemiLEDs on US$102 Million Nasdaq IPO
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has advised SemiLEDs Corporation (Nasdaq:LEDS) on a US$102 million initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market
Read moreOrrick Advises Posco on the Acquisition of Japanese Waste Heat Recovery Company Xenesys
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has advised Posco, the leading South Korea steelmaker, in its acquisition of a 51 percent stake in Xenesys Inc., a Japanese company specializing in the ocean power generation technology
Read moreBe Careful With Cold-Callers
Robert here. If you are a transactional associate at a top US firm and your name happens to be of Asian origin, especially of Chinese background, then you are probably receiving multiple cold calls per
Read moreO’Melveny Represents Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley in US$312.8 Million IPO of E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc.
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc as joint bookrunners, and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Piper Jaffray & Co., and Cowen and Company, LLC as
Read moreWeil Advises New Private Equity Client Unitas on Hyva Acquisition
International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges represented new private equity client Unitas Capital, a leading Asia-based private equity house, in its €525 million cross-border acquisition of Hyva Holdings B.V., the market leader in hydraulic
Read moreG+T Successfully Advises on Global Alliances Between Virgin Blue and Air New Zealand and Virgin Blue and Etihad Airways
Gilbert + Tobin represented Virgin Blue and Air New Zealand in relation to the Australian competition aspects of their Trans-tasman alliance
Read moreHerbert Smith Advises Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank on its US$1.35 Billion IPO
Herbert Smith has advised Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank (CRCB) on both the Hong Kong and US law aspects of its HK$10.5 billion (US$1.35 billion) Hong Kong public offering and Rule 144A / Regulation S international
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