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Advent Lawyers has become the seventh Australian law firm to enter the Singapore legal services market after securing regulatory approvals to commence operations as a foreign law practice.

Australian firm Advent Lawyers has opened a Singapore office after months of preparation. The firm, famed for its move away from the billable hour pricing model, has opened the office with four lawyers and is looking to recruit more.

US firm Ropes & Gray has appointed former OMM counsel Geoffrey Chan as a partner in its Hong Kong office

美国Ropes & Gray近日聘请美迈斯顾问陈杰鸿作为其在香港办公室的合伙人。 这次任命是Ropes & Gray为今年在上海设立办事处做人事上的准备。

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

Ashurst, Amarchand, Luthra & Luthra and DLA Piper have acted on the US$3.4bn IPO of Coal India, India’s largest IPO to date.

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。

The QR National initial public offer will see Allens Arthur Robinson walk away with a healthy pay check of A$4.8m, reports Fairfax Media.

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。

Premier industry event The Macallan ALB Hong Kong Law Awards has named chief executive of Hong Kong Exchanges (HKEx) and Clearing, Charles Li, as well as Bar Council chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, Russell Coleman SC, as its guests of honour this year.

Former Freehills managing partner Mike Ferraro is set to return to Freehlls after a stint as general counsel at BHP.

Recent Asian debt market transactions have put high-yield notes capabilities back on law firm agendas. Four Chinese property companies have recently offered high-yield notes with a total deal value of US$1.37bn.

近月来，多家律所协助了四家地产商发行美元保证优先票据，总价值高达13亿美元。

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.

Commerce & Finance and O'Melveny & Myers along with co-counsel Cravath, Swaine & Moore, have recently acted for WuXi PharmaTech in its proposed sale to Charles River Laboratories International.

Charles River Laboratories International Inc.近日与WuXi PharmaTech Inc.签署一项最终协议，将以现金与股票方式合并，交易金额约为16亿美元。