Richards Butler law firm news

Blank Rome LLP, one of America’s largest law firms, has opened an office in Shanghai — its second office in Greater China. Blank Rome’s Hong Kong office opened in 2006 due to their affiliation with international law firm,Healy & Baillie LLP.

Freshfields and Dewey have advised on the first major overseas acquisition by United Energy Group, a non-state-owned energy company that is listed in Hong Kong and owns assets in the Liaohe Oil Field in China.

富而德和杜威路博近日参与了联合能源集团有限公司斥资7亿美元收购英国石油巴基斯坦之上游石油及天然气业务的交易项目。联合能源成为首家在海外进行大型石油资产收购的非国有能源企业。

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。

A-share listings and international IPOs have reached the highest levels seen in the history of capital markets for Chinese companies, according to recent statistics released by China’s leading investment consulting firm ChinaVenture.

据ChinaVenture最新数据显示，2010年1－11月份中国企业IPO数量已经达到431家；超过2007年265家的最高纪录，达到年度IPO数量历史最高峰。

Maples and Calder, Richards Butler in association with Reed Smith, Reed Smith and King & Wood have all won mandates to advise on the Hong Kong IPO of Mongolian miner Winsway.

China-Mongolia coking coal supplier and transporter, Winsway Coking Coal Holdings, is set to become the very first BVI company to list in Hong Kong since the HKSE approved the listing of BVI-incorporated companies in December last year.

永晖焦煤股份有限公司将在10月份成为第一家英属维尔京群岛(BVI)注册成立的香港上市公司。该公司由金杜，齐伯礼，开曼Maples and Calder和雷曼律师事务所蒙古分所提供法律咨询。

The 17th Tianjin Trade Fair & Investment Talk gathered together hundreds of delegates in June, including state officials, business representatives and legal professionals. All participants came to discuss the economic development of Tianjin, and unravelling the impending opportunities driven by positive government policies and stimulus packages. About 940 major projects have led to an investment of nearly US$294bn in the region since 2007.

Advised by Skadden, Milbank Tweed and Sidley Austin, Titan Petrochemicals has successfully issued US$315m senior notes.

石油贸易及船运公司泰山石化集团近日发行价值3.15亿美元的优先票据。 此次交易由世达，美国美邦以及盛德国际律师事务所提供法律服务。

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has strengthened its Marine, Energy & Trade (MET) practice in Asia with the lateral hire of Andrew Horton and the elevation of Patric McGonigal to partner.

Rising firm Run Ming has recently increased its international capabilities by adding two additonal lawyers to its Beijing office – Zhou Yao, from DLA Piper’s Beijing office, and Claire Ye, from US firm Thompson Hine.

近日，曾在外国律师事务所执业的周瑶和叶华英律师加入润明北京总部。

Aviation specialist Run Ming has recently advised on China’s very first airline bankruptcy. East Star Airlines was declared bankrupt last year and Run Ming partner Gavin Wang was instructed by Airbus, one of the creditors of East Star Airlines.

Omani firm Said al Shahry Law Office (SASLO) has appointed a former partner from Australian firm Blake Dawson – Andrew Kincaid – as a senior lawyer in its Muscat office.

AllBright Law Office and JSM (in association with Mayer Brown and Mayer Brown International) have together advised Shanghai Industrial Holdings (SIH) on its proposed acquisition of distressed property company Neo-China Land for US$354.2m.

上海市政府的投资子公司上海实业控股近日以27.5亿港元收购中资地产开发商中新集团有限公司45%的股权。