A good number of our placements over the last six years have been of Korean-speaking attorneys, most of whom are Korean natives who were educated in the United States after a preliminary legal education in
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Davis Polk Advises IDG Ventures in Connection With Privatization of Soko Fitness & Spa Group, Inc.
Davis Polk advised two affiliated funds of IDG Ventures in connection with the going-private transaction of Soko Fitness & Spa Group, Inc., a Delaware company previously quoted for trading on OTCBB, through a short-form merger
Read moreShearman & Sterling Advises on US$1.95 Billion Mong Duong 2 IPP in Northern Vietnam
Shearman & Sterling represented the borrower and lead sponsor The AES Corporation (AES) in relation to the project financing for the US$1.95 billion 1240 MW coal-fired Mong Duong 2 IPP in northern Vietnam. This will
Read moreClifford Chance Advises on Three Korean Capital Market Deals
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised on three Korean capital market transactions in July
Read moreWillkie Advises on Sale of South Korea’s Top Social Commerce Site
On August 2, it was announced that online deals site LivingSocial has agreed to acquire Willkie client Ticket Monster, Inc., South Korea’s top social commerce site
Read moreSTATE OF THE MARKET IN ASIA / HOW TO HANDLE THE INEVITABLE COUNTER OFFER, BOTH FROM FIRM AND CANDIDATE’S PERSPECTVIE
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
Read morePAUL HASTINGS ADVISES JOINT BOOKRUNNERS IN LOTTE SHOPPING’S US$900 MILLION DUAL-CURRENCY CONVERTIBLE BOND OFFERING
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, a leading global law firm, announced today that it has advised the joint bookrunners in Lotte Shopping’s US$900 million dual-currency convertible bond
Read moreAshurst Advises on the Financing of the US$ 1.4 Billion Shuweihat S3 IPP Project
Ashurst advised the funders on the successful financing of the Shuweihat S3 independent power project in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, which reached financial close on 18 May 2011
Read moreAshurst Advises KOGAS on Investment in US$16 Billion Gladstone LNG Project
Ashurst has advised Korea Gas Corporation (“KOGAS”) on its acquisition of a stake in the US$16 billion Gladstone Santos LNG project (“GLNG”), which completed on 16 February 2011
Read moreMilbank Advises Lenders on US$2.5 Billion Jurong Aromatics Petrochemical Facility
Leading international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP represented The Export-Import Bank of Korea (K-Exim), Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-sure) and a group of 11 international commercial bank lenders in connection with the
Read moreAshurst Advises KOGAS on Investment in US$16 Billion Gladstone LNG Project
Ashurst has advised Korea Gas Corporation (“KOGAS”) on its acquisition of a stake in the US$16 billion Gladstone Santos LNG project (“GLNG”), which completed on 16 February 2011
Read moreWFW Advises on $168M K-SURE-backed Project Financing for a Caspian Sea Drilling Rig
The Singapore office of Watson, Farley & Williams advised a syndicate of international lenders led by Bank of America N.A. as agent, in relation to an export-credit backed US$168,000,000 project financing of a drilling rig
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