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Six-year finalist for ALB’s Insurance Law Firm of the Year title, Kai-Rong Law Firm continues be to a forceful contender within the insurance sector.

Anthony Harper have had another stellar year.  Corporate and commercial assignments have ranged from the sale of vintage warbird aircraft, through acting for the developer of the South Island's tallest building, the C1 Tower, to the hugely successful listing of NZ Windfarms on the New Zealand Stock Exchange.

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.

Legal stalwarts John Denton and Robert Milliner have returned from the second Australia-China Joint CEO Roundtable meeting in Beijing along with 12 other Australian business leaders.

Lavan Legal has announced two new hires, making a total of five new faces this year.

Clashes between police and anti-government protestors intensified this week as 1000 GCC troops entered Bahrain on Tuesday 15 March. A ‘state of emergency’ declaration by the Kingdom of Bahrain prompted lawyers and staff from international firms to evacuate Manama; as they await the all-clear signal to be issued from the British Foreign Office.

Bahrain’s first-ever wastewater treatment plant – also one of the first wastewater PPP deals in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – heralds the start of the government’s drive to develop infrastructure in a number of sectors, using PPPs as the key procurement model.

Norton Rose, Minter Ellison and Allen & Gledhill have advised on the loan facilities granted to fund the acquisition of Australian sugar producer Sucrogen (formerly CSR's sugar and renewable energy business) by Wilmar International, one of the largest listed companies by market capitalisation on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Blake Dawson will again be representing the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) when it goes to court to challenge a class action being run by Maurice Blackburn.

Class action lawyers Maurice Blackburn will today file with the Federal Court the first of a series of class actions on bank fees.

Norton Rose, Hogan Lovells, WongPartnership and Ashurst have all landed leading roles on the world’s largest sport facilities infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) to date.

While global PE investors rush to set up their RMB funds, lawyers are also seeing their private equity expertise migrate from advising offshore funds to domestic funds. How fast have lawyers caught onto their PE game and how determined are they to make it a purely Chinese affair? ALB investigates

PT Indosat Tbk – one of Indonesia’s largest mobile phone companies – has retained Assegaf Hamzah & Partners and Sidley Austin as the issuer’s Indonesian and lead counsels respectively on the US$650m high yield bond offer.

Trail-blazing Temasek has hired Allen & Gledhill and Latham Watkins to act on a multi-jurisdiction a debt market deal worth US$1.1bn – in Temasek’s first foray into sterling-denominated securities.

With less than two months to go before the Macallan ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2010, the race for the best trophy haul of the night is intensifying, and five firms are finalists in more than ten categories apiece.

The first IPO by a Mainland securities company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is indicative of a rising market trend, according to DLA Piper lead partner Esther Leung.

国泰君安国际近日已在香港发行IPO，筹集资金约23亿港元。香港李伟斌律师行协同广东圣天平律师事务所为发行人提供法律意见。欧华为联席保荐人和主承销商的法律顾问。

King & Wood, Baker & McKenzie, Grandall and Freshfields have recently advised on Bank of Communications’ whopping US$4.9bn rights issuance.

交通银行近日确定了再融资方案，通过A股和H股配股发行计划筹资331亿元。 交行聘请了金杜和贝克·麦坚时作为发行人法律顾问，而国浩与富而德则担任承销商法律顾问。

On track to become the financial and commercial centre of South-West China, Chengdu's legal industry is undergoing significant changes. Most are driven by growing demand in the middle and upper market segments. ALB reports