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Hong Kong brokers in M&A limelight as stock boom sparks tycoon interest

BY Reuters |

Hong Kong's brokers and financial advisors are having a moment - a stock market boom is drawing M&A interest by mainland businesses and shares of many firms are soaring as investors try to work out which companies will be wooed next.
China may be Indonesia's top investor if Widodo can smooth the way

BY Reuters |

China could quickly leapfrog Singapore and Japan to become Indonesia's biggest foreign investor, if President Joko Widodo can simplify the way business is conducted in Southeast Asia's largest economy.
Skadden, Davis Polk on 3SBio’s $712 mln Hong Kong IPO

BY Kanishk Verghese, Reuters |

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Davis Polk & Wardwell have advised on Chinese biotech company 3SBio Inc’s $712 million IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Zhongrong opens offshore funding channel for China's shadow banks

BY Reuters |

By selling what market sources say is the first offshore bond from a Chinese trust company, Zhongrong International Trust has opened a new funding route for the country's shadow banks as they look to expand overseas.
Towers Watson, Shanda, CITIC vying for Russell Investments

BY Reuters |

Towers Watson & Co and China's Shanda Games Ltd and CITIC Group Corp are the remaining parties bidding for Russell Investments, in what is expected to be a roughly $1.5 billion deal, people familiar with the matter said.
Carlyle-backed Focus Media set for $7 billion backdoor listing in Shenzhen

BY Reuters |

Focus Media Holding Ltd, one of several Chinese firms that delisted in the United States after short-seller attacks, is set to go public again via a reverse takeover in Shenzhen that values it at more than $7 billion, filings showed.
China's Dalian Wanda buys Australian cinema chain Hoyts

BY Reuters |

Wanda Cinema Line Corp, a unit of China's leading property developer Dalian Wanda Group, said it would buy Australian cinema chain Hoyts Group, a purchase that underscores its parent's ambitions to become a global entertainment company.
Jingtian & Gongcheng stars in Focus Media $7 bln backdoor listing in Shenzhen

BY Shangjing Li, Reuters |

Beijing based Jingtian & Gongcheng has scored a key advisory role in Focus Media Holding’s backdoor listing in Shenzhen. The restructure values the company at more than $7 billion, filings showed.
China capital to roll out tough anti-smoking laws

BY Reuters |

Beijing will ban smoking in restaurants, offices and on public transport from June 1, part of unprecedented new curbs welcomed by anti-tobacco advocates, though how they will be enforced remains to be seen.
China National Nuclear aims to raise $2.13 billion in largest IPO since 2011

BY Reuters |

China National Nuclear Power Co Ltd (CNNPC), a unit of one of the country's two state nuclear reactor builders, said it aims to raise 13.19 billion yuan ($2.13 billion) in potentially the largest China IPO in almost four years.