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Appleby: a fast-growing offshore firm boosts its network for clients

SemiLEDs Corporation has become the first Taiwanese LED manufacturer to hit the NADAQ Global Select Market after its US$102m IPO

Yashili, the third-largest (by sales) Chinese infant-formula maker, has recently launched its US$348m IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

雅士利国际控股近日在香港联合交易所主板正式挂牌上市，通过此次首发共筹得3.48亿美元。

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).

人和商业控股近日在新加坡证券交易所发行了于2016年到期的3亿美元优先票据。人和商业由竞天公诚，达维，离岸律所康德明和诺顿•罗氏提供法律咨询，而承销商则由凯文和瑞生国际律师事务所担任法律顾问。

Korean law firms Shin & Kim and Kim & Chang as well as international players Cleary Gottlieb and Simpson Thacher have acted on the largest ever public offering by a Korean company: the US$4.4bn IPO of Samsung Life Insurance.

Herbert Smith has launched a new private client practice in Hong Kong targeting the growing wealth management industry in the Asian region.

US West Coast firm Orrick seems to be proving that flexibility and innovation on fees can be an advantage not only in the market for clients but also in the market for top talent.

美国奥睿律师事务所宣布新聘原美国佳利律师事务所律师吴倪萍为其公司事务部合伙人，常驻北京。吴律师将会继续致力于中国境内的并购和私募股权业务。

While the rest of the world takes a year-long hiatus from making private equity transactions, China’s domestic PE industry, now led by domestic players, remains active and is fast evolving. A strong private equity market will not only drive economic growth but also foster a more sophisticated domestic PE legal fraternity.

Appleby: a fast-growing offshore firm boosts its network for clients

ALB identifies 25 of the most outstanding in-house legal counsel in Asia.

China South City Holdings, a developer and operator of large-scale, integrated logistics and trade centres in the PRC, has commenced trading on the HKSE and both Baker & McKenzie and Morrison & Foerster were involved as legal advisors on this US$404m IPO.

Sinopharm Group, the largest distributor of pharmaceutical and healthcare products in China, has made its debut on the HKSE with a US$1.13bn IPO that was 500 times over-subscribed.

PRC firms, for the first time ever, have topped the Asia-Pacific (ex Japan) M&A legal advisory league table.

总部位于北京的通商和德恒按金额在2009上半年亚太地区（日本除外）并购法律顾问排名中上升到前两名。这标志着中国律所首次在类似法律顾问排行中名列榜首。

DEAL NEWS: After posting the slowest first quarter in almost a decade, Hong Kong's capital markets are once again in full swing, or at least, the closest we are likely to get to it in the middle of a worldwide economic crisis.

Despite a slowing Australian equity market, lawyers from Mallesons and Blakes acting on Cleveland-Cliffs' takeover bid for Portman Mining (A$528.4m) are looking at a decent pay packet.

When reports surfaced of Lehman Brother’s bankruptcy and the fall of Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the US, it seemed like market activity had slowed. But figures released by Mergermarket show otherwise.