King & Wood law firm news

Blank Rome LLP, one of America’s largest law firms, has opened an office in Shanghai — its second office in Greater China. Blank Rome’s Hong Kong office opened in 2006 due to their affiliation with international law firm,Healy & Baillie LLP.

Dr Nongfan Zhu has joined King & Wood’s Beijing office as partner and co-head of the firm’s intellectual property practice.

Jincheng Tongda & Neal, King & Wood, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Simpson Thacher have advised NetQin Mobile, a Chinese mobile security and applications company on its on the New York Stock Exchange listing, following the May 2011 debuts of three other PRC companies onto the US market.

The Tokyo office of Simmons & Simmons has laterally hired Hogan Lovells projects lawyer Simon Barrett to join the firm as a partner with immediate effect.

Junior miners are heading for the wide open spaces of Africa in search of resources – and their lawyers are not too far behind.

Swiss firm SG Fafalen and King & Wood have terminated the alliance struck less than 12 months ago as speculation mounts that the PRC giant is trimming excess fat before embarking on an aggressive expansion drive in the SAR.

瑞士法隆与金杜近日结束了不到12个月的联盟。据消息人士推断，作为中国最大的律所之一，金杜在精简人员后，有意大事扩张其在香港的本土业务。

Only days after the defection of its tax head, Stephen Nelson, to DLA Piper, King & Wood has lost a further two partners from its Hong Kong office. John Lo and Kenneth Y Choy have both departed for the Hong Kong office of US firm Edwards Angel Palmer & Dodge (EAPD).

一月之内，金杜连失三名合伙人。在Stephen Nelson加盟DLA Piper后，又有两名合伙人Jone Lo 和Kenneth Y Choy离开金杜

At a time when many senior lawyers are leaving international firms in China to join ascendant domestic firms, the head of King & Wood’s taxation practice Stephen Nelson has made a lateral move to join DLA Piper in Hong Kong as a new partner of its Asian tax practice.

Maples and Calder’s Cayman Islands managing partner Gareth Griffiths will relocate to Hong Kong to replace current joint-managing partner Spencer Privett – who takes up the post of chairman of the Maples Fund Services’s Asia-Pacific division, effective Dec 2010.

Maples and Calder近期宣布，将开曼群岛管理合伙人Gareth Griffiths 调至香港办公室任联席管理合伙人。

After launching new branch offices in Suzhou, Beijing, Taizhou and Fujian this year, Zhongyin continues to expand even further out into the provinces. The firm has recently acquired Tianjin-based Yaze Law Firm and has restructured the 16 year-old firm top become its Tianjin branch.

中银近日与创始于1994年的原天津亚泽律师事务所重新组合成立了中银（天津）律师事务所。该分所现有律师及助理20余名。

According to the recent Development of the PRC Capital Market’s Legal System (2009) report, as many as 1,060 legal opinions pertaining to IPOs, follow-on offerings and share placements were issued in 2009, marking a 17.8% increase over 2008

中国证监会法律部近日发布了《中国资本市场法制发展报告2009》。其中，证监会法律部统计，2009年律师事务所出具法律意见书1060份，比2008年增加了17.8%，其中出具上市公司再融资法律意见书225份，比2008年增加了52%。

Brazil’s Vale, the world’s largest iron ore producer and second largest diversified mining company, has engaged a list of legal advisors including Norton Rose and Cleary Gottlieb to advise on its Hong Kong float.

巴西Vale矿业集团近日通过股票凭证或预托证券的方式在香港上市。

A-share listings and international IPOs have reached the highest levels seen in the history of capital markets for Chinese companies, according to recent statistics released by China’s leading investment consulting firm ChinaVenture.

据ChinaVenture最新数据显示，2010年1－11月份中国企业IPO数量已经达到431家；超过2007年265家的最高纪录，达到年度IPO数量历史最高峰。