Tightening credit policies on Mainland China have driven strong growth in debt capital raisings in Hong Kong – with some lawyers predicting a bumper year for bond issues for the North Asian market.
Orrick(奥睿) has hired Latham & Watkins' partner William Chun Fai Woo to join its Hong Kong capital markets practice.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is the latest in a long line of elite US firms to undergo localisation following the moves of other Hong Kong-based US firms – most recently Davis Polk and Latham & Watkins which underwent the same process in 2010.
Jeffrey Sun Jie, formerly Shanghai-based counsel with Latham & Watkins, has joined Orrick(奥睿), Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Orrick(奥睿)) as a partner in the China corporate group.
前瑞生顾问孙捷律师(Jeffrey)加盟奥睿，担任其中国业务部合伙人。孙捷将常驻奥睿上海办事处。
Orrick(奥睿), and its newly-formed Vietnam alliance partner, LVN & Associates, have advised Thang Long Thermoelectric JSC (Thang Long) in a landmark China-Vietnam energy project – the first such partnership between the two jurisdictions in an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract.
奥睿和新近成立的越南联盟合作伙伴，LVN&&Associates，成功为越南热电公司Thang Long价值6.34亿美元中越能源项目提供法律服务。
Ex-Paul Hastings disputes practice head Yoshihiro Takatori, along with his team, have joined the Tokyo office of Orrick(奥睿) as the firm looks to increase its resources in this fast-growing area.
A group of four lawyers from US firm Howrey have launched the Taipei office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton—the firm’s second office in Asia.
SemiLEDs Corporation has become the first Taiwanese LED manufacturer to hit the NADAQ Global Select Market after its US$102m IPO
Maples and Calder’s Cayman Islands managing partner Gareth Griffiths will relocate to Hong Kong to replace current joint-managing partner Spencer Privett – who takes up the post of chairman of the Maples Fund Services’s Asia-Pacific division, effective Dec 2010.
Maples and Calder近期宣布，将开曼群岛管理合伙人Gareth Griffiths 调至香港办公室任联席管理合伙人。
Orrick(奥睿), Herrington & Sutcliffe has made its first venture into Southeast Asia via an alliance with LVN & Associates, a newly established law firm based in Hanoi,Vietnam set up by ex-Orrick(奥睿) lawyer Linh Qyunh Doan.
Morrison & Foerster has recently represented TSX-listed China Gold International Resources on its US$309m IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
中国黄金集团公司控股的中国黄金国际资源及近日在香港联合交易所主板挂牌上市， 同时也完成斯凯兰收购，成为甲玛矿的唯一拥有人。
ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2010 Real Estate Firm of the Year winner Mayer Brown JSM has advised Hang Lung Properties, a Hong Kong-listed company, in its US$1.42bn follow-on offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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。
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.
新疆金风科技近日在香港联合交易所挂牌上市。新疆金风由新疆天阳律师事务所担任法律顾问而承销商则由富而德和竞天公诚律师事务所提供法律咨询。