Maples and Calder, LCS & Partners, Latu Ey & Clarke all played a role in advising on the US$190m Taiwan IPO of TPK Holding Company.

China’s second-largest wind turbine maker Xingjiang Goldwind Science & Technology has raised US$1.05bn in its second listing attempt on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange – after earlier plans to list in June were shelved due to poor market conditions.

The rapidly growing renewable energy market is moving into overdrive as China Suntien Green Energy becomes the fourth Chinese clean-energy company to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in a little over two weeks.

White & Case has promoted three lawyers to partnership in Tokyo, Singapore and Beijing, effective 1 January 2011.

The surge in the Hong Kong capital markets continues with the US$320m initial public listing of Shanghai-based children’s product manufacturer, Boshiwa International, on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock exchange.

Rajah & Tann, Stamford Law, King & Wood and Clifford Chance have acted on the first proposed takeover of a listed business trust in Singapore – a US$225m joint venture between Japan’s Mitsui & Co and Singapore Hyflux to develop a substantial water treatment business in Mainland China.

Hong Kong-listed operator and developer of underground shopping centres in China, Renhe Commercial Holdings, has retained Kaiwen, Conyers Dill & Pearman, Norton Rose, Davis Polk and Latham & Watkins for the third time since its IPO, for its US$300m senior notes offering on the Singapore Securities Exchange (SGX- ST).

Sidley Austin, Orrick, Jingtian & Gongcheng, Carey Olsen, Memery Crystal and Zong Heng Law Firm have all won mandates in the first-ever delisting of a Chinese company from London’s AIM (alternative investment market) – and the subsequent listing in Hong Kong with a 144A placement to US investors.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati will extend its roots in China and launch into Asia from a new office in Hong Kong – to be set up by recent partner hire, Weiheng Chen, in collaboration with current head of China, Carmen Chang.

South Korea's Hanwha Chemicals has recently purchased a 50% stake in Solarfun Power Holdings or US$370m. The deal marks the latest attempt by Hanwha's parent, Hanwha Group, to raise its profile in China through acquisitions and public offerings.