Sidley Austin(盛德国际) law firm news

Clifford Chance, White & Case, Norton Rose, Mochtar Karuwin Komar, Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners, Wiriadinata & Saleh and Baker & McKenzie have advised on a US$1.2bn multi-sourced Shari’a compliant Islamic financing deal – the largest cross-border private sector Islamic financing into Indonesia to date.

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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has installed Woon-Wah Siu as the new office managing partner of its Shanghai office and Scott Kline as its China representative.

美国必百瑞近日晋升合伙人萧焕华为上海代表处管理合伙人, 同时也任命合伙人Scott Kline为中国区代表。

Regional firm DFDL Mekong has told ALB that it is expecting to convert its representative office license in Singapore to a fully-fledge foreign law practice (FLP) license this month, pending approval from the Ministry of Law. It plans to launch its Singapore office by early January 2011.

Following the recent departure of two Shanghai partners, US firm Pillbury has elected two US-qualified counsel to partnership to reinforce its Shanghai office.

美国必百瑞律师事务所近日宣布将两位上海顾问Scott Kline 和 Woon-Wah Siu提升为合伙人。他们均在资本市场，并购以及公司法律事务有丰富经验。

Indonesia’s telecommunications giant Tower Bersama has engaged Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Assegaf Hamzah & Partners in a US$2bn loan debt programme to PT Tower Bersama Infrastructure and its operating companies. Norton Rose and Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners advised the programme coordinators of the transaction.

Sidley Austin(盛德国际) is preparing for a rush of client activity in China’s financial centre with the recent appointment of new corporate partner Joseph Chan in Shanghai.

曾在美国必百瑞上海代表处任合伙人的陈永坚律师，近日加盟盛德上海代表处担任合伙人。

Clifford Chance has been retained as issuer’s counsel in a breakthrough global notes issue from state-run utility, Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA); in the company’s largest dollar-denominated bond sale yet.

Baker & McKenzie has been named the strongest law firm brand in the Acritas worldwide Sharplegal Global Elite Brand Index 2010.

China Unicom’s latest US$1.8bn convertible bonds issuance is the world’s largest international convertible bond issuance by a PRC company to date. Freshfields, Sullivan & Cromwell and Herbert Smith advised on the transaction.

中国联合网络通信近日通过其全资子公司成功发行总额达18.39亿美元附息可转换债券。本次可转债发行是中国境内企业有史以来最大规模的国际可转债发行。

Despite a brief pause during the hung parliament, M&A is on an upward trajectory in Australia with cross border deals driving the market.

Asia will undergo infrastructure and arbitration booms in the next ten years and the expanding market has room to accommodate more foreign law practices.

Sidley Austin(盛德国际) has relocated corporate and capital markets partner Prabhat Mehta to Singapore – after spending six years at the firm’s New York office.

King & Wood, Sidley Austin(盛德国际) and Conyers have recently advised SouFun Holdings, the country’s largest property website, on its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The company sold 2.9 million American Depositary Shares, raising US$125m.

中国房地产网站运营商搜房网近日在纽约证券交易所发行IPO, 成功募资1.25亿美元。此次首发项目由金杜，康德明，盛德，方达，盛信和苏利文•克伦威尔共同提供法律服务。

Sidley Austin(盛德国际), 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.