Sullivan & Cromwell law firm news

Revealing the winners at the 2011 ALB-Macquarie Bank Law Awards: which firms collected the honours this year?

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.

The rivalry heats up amongst Tokyo-based international firms at the night of nights for Japan’s legal fraternity – the ALB Japan Law Awards 2011.

During January 2011 a number of high profile deals were announced. This is a summary of some of those that were considered either interesting in terms of industry activity or indicative of current trends.

Despite only having joined Jincheng Tongda & Neal less than a month ago, the Jin Tao, is already inundated with work having just completed a high profile Japan-China M&A deal.

前君和合伙人金涛以高级合伙人身份加盟金诚同达。

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。

King & Wood, Freshfields and Debevoise are representing AIA in its highly anticipated Hong Kong IPO. As the issuer has businesses and operations in 15 markets in the region, a large number of local firms in these jurisdictions have also been engaged for legal support.

美国国际集团(AIG)旗下友邦保险近日正式启动备受关注的公开招股，将于29日挂牌，计划集资约200亿美元。除金杜、富而德以及德普三家大所任发行人律师外，还有多家亚洲律所也为此上市项目提供过了法律意见和服务。

King & Wood, Sidley Austin 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。

Leading international dispute resolution centre – the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) – has announced senior counsel Cavinder Bull will be the new deputy chairman of the SIAC board of directors, effective from 1 October 2010.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati will extend its roots in China and launch into Asia from a new office in Hong Kong – to be set up by recent partner hire, Weiheng Chen, in collaboration with current head of China, Carmen Chang.

为扩展中国业务，Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati事务所宣布即将在香港成立其亚洲的第二个办公室，同时任命最近加盟的合伙人陈炜恒为律所中国地区联席主管。

Fresh from ranking high in recent M&A and IPO league tables, King & Wood has boosted its partner numbers by nine, including five internal promotions.

The winners of the sixth annual ALB Japan Law Awards 2010 will be announced this Friday 28 May at the Ritz Carlton, Tokyo at a gala event attended by a sellout 200+ crowd of Japan’s pre-eminent solicitors, in-house counsel, investment bankers and business leaders.

Mayer Brown, Baker & McKenzie and Sullivan & Cromwell have recently been instructed on the ION Geophysical Corporation US$400m JV and stock sale with BGP.

由美亚博和贝克•麦坚时国际律师事务所提供法律服务,美国ION地球物理集团公司和中国地球物理服务提供商东方地球物理公司近期正式介绍英洛瓦物探装备公司。

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu and Nishimura & Asahi are set to fight it out for top honours at the Japanese legal fraternity’s night of nights – the ALB Japan Law Awards 2010