Carlyle news

Asian private equity topped the US$100bn mark in 2004. ALB looks at the activity in the region

The January 1 2005 merger of Japanese heavyweight law firm Anderson Mori with capital markets firm Tomotsune & Kimura has already borne fruit at last night's inaugural Deals of the Year Awards Japan 2005.

Freehills and Minter Ellison acted on the Australian leg of a global US$2.9bn leverage buyout.

Private equity fund Carlyle Group turned to Sullivan & Cromwell on its recent financial services acquisition in China.

Lawyers are warning recent raids on the Korean offices of US investment fund Lone Star by the country's prosecutors could have a chilling effect on international investments in the country.

As more pieces have been put together, the jigsaw puzzle of the Chinese legal market starts presents an increasingly integrated and impressive landscape. With the unstoppable economic boom, lawyers' ambitions are surging alongside ALB reports.

As private equity firms increasingly set their sights on the investment potential of China and India, the practice area is becoming the front line of competition between law firms

As a growing amount of capital seeks a home in Asia, the funds industry is booming, and maturing into a more sophisticated market comparable with its more developed cousins

Total Asian private equity funds under management rose by almost 30% in 2006 to US$158bn, up from US$122bn in 2005. At the same time, investments for the year were up 122% to US$67.4bn, from US$30.4bn in 2005.

Total Asian private equity funds under management rose by almost 30% in 2006 to US$158bn, up from US$122bn in 2005. At the same time, investments for the year were up 122% to US$67.4bn, from US$30.4bn in 2005.

Whether it is advising on changing regulation, or how to jump Whether it is advising on changing regulation, or how to jump the hurdles regulation presents, firms are seeing increased business flow from a TMT sector heating up as companies seek to grow their market share or become targets for acquisition themselves

Clifford Chance has announced that private equity (PE) partner Simon Cooke will relocate from the company's London office to Hong Kong as the firm looks to strengthen its PE offering in the region.

Linklaters has promoted Zili Shao, the firm's current managing partner for Greater China to Asia managing partner, succeeding outgoing partner Giles White.

年利达已将中国区管理合伙人邵子力晋升为新的亚洲管理合伙人。

Paul, Weiss has assisted The Carlyle Group (Carlyle) in a US$1.8bn deal to create the largest pay-TV operator in Taiwan.

ALB identifies 25 of the most outstanding in-house legal counsel in Asia.

Being invited to join the partnership might be an enduring ambition for many young lawyers, but promotion usually comes at a price. Firms have many ways of ensuring that new partners pay their due – and some are more onerous than others

China is hurtling along the path of technological advancement and investors are facing a whole new world of opportunity and growth

While the rest of the world takes a year-long hiatus from making private equity transactions, China’s domestic PE industry, now led by domestic players, remains active and is fast evolving. A strong private equity market will not only drive economic growth but also foster a more sophisticated domestic PE legal fraternity.

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Clifford Chance and Hourani & Associates have closed a rare PE transaction for The Carlyle Group amidst a tough PE market in the Middle East