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Weil Gotshal, OMM, Wilson Sonsini on $2.8 bln take-private bid

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati have advised on a $2.8 billion bid to take Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive Group Inc private.
Ferguson Solicitors to open in HK

BY Kanishk Verghese |

London-based employment and commercial litigation law firm Ferguson Solicitors LLP is set to open an office in Hong Kong next month.
Deacons appoints new Greater China tax head

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Deacons has hired Lee Travis Benjamin from Baker & McKenzie to head the firm’s Hong Kong and China tax practice.
Latham, KWM lead on Huishang Bank’s HK IPO

BY Kanishk Verghese, Reuters |

Latham & Watkins and King & Wood Mallesons have advised Chinese lender Huishang Bank Corp on its HK$9.21 billion ($1.2 billion) IPO in Hong Kong.
Deacons hires DCM partner from KWM

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Deacons has bolstered its capital markets practice with the hire of Kevin Tong as a partner in Hong Kong.
Addleshaw expands in HK and Singapore

BY Kanishk Verghese |

UK law firm Addleshaw Goddard has grown its corporate and litigation offering with the arrival of Nigel Francis from Minter Ellison to co-head the firm’s associate office in Hong Kong.
Bakers, MHM seal $530 mln Japanese bank sale

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Baker & McKenzie has advised Taiwan’s CTBC Financial Holdings on its acquisition of Tokyo-based local lender Tokyo Star Bank for 52 billion yen ($530 million), in a deal that makes CTBC Financial the first foreign bank to acquire a Japanese lender.
Bakers, S&C, Slaughters star in $1.5 bln HK bank buy

BY Kanishk Verghese, Reuters |

Baker & McKenzie, Slaughter and May and Sullivan & Cromwell have scored roles in Yue Xiu Enterprise’s proposal to buy three quarters of Hong Kong’s Chong Hing Bank for about HK$11.64 billion ($1.5 billion).
Withers moves partner to HK, grows Asia corporate team

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Withers has relocated London-based international finance and projects head Denis Petkovic to Hong Kong to grow the firm’s Asian regional corporate and finance team.
Stephenson Harwood adds 3 to Greater China practice

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Stephenson Harwood has grown its Greater China team with the appointments of Peter Hodson and Jezamine Fewins as consultants in Hong Kong, and Hugh Dong as a legal director in the firm’s newly launched office in Beijing.