O'Melveny & Myers law firm news

Following the Nasdaq listing of China-based online retailer Mecox Lane in late October, Dangdang , the top-ranked Chinese online book retailer, has recently launched its US$312m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

After spending nine months at Hogan Lovells' Beijing office as of counsel, IP law veteran Clifford Borg-Marks has joined Bird & Bird as special counsel.

知识产权领域资深律师Clifford Borg-Marks，近日与两位律师一起离开霍金路伟转投鸿鹄律师事务所。

Asia will undergo infrastructure and arbitration booms in the next ten years and the expanding market has room to accommodate more foreign law practices.

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

Following the appointment of new partner Don Williams from Wilson Sonsini, US firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added another member to its corporate practice in Shanghai.

继前Wilson Sonsini资深合伙人Don Williams加盟后，美国盛智律师事务所近日任命了Jenny Liu律师为其上海办公室公司业务部特别顾问，旨在将强该所在北京的业务发展。

Yet another Paul Hastings senior lawyer joins the Singapore office of O'Melveny & Myers

One of the most talked about law firm mergers in recent memory has finally been consummated; both firms joined forces - for better or for worse.

Commerce & Finance and O'Melveny & Myers along with co-counsel Cravath, Swaine & Moore, have recently acted for WuXi PharmaTech in its proposed sale to Charles River Laboratories International.

Charles River Laboratories International Inc.近日与WuXi PharmaTech Inc.签署一项最终协议，将以现金与股票方式合并，交易金额约为16亿美元。

Advised by Jingtian & Gongcheng, WongPartnership and O’Melveny & Myers, New Century Shipbuilding recently launched its IPO on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), aiming to raise approximately US$731m.

As part of its plans to strengthen its M&A and PE practices and open a Beijing office, Jade & Fountain has hired two additional partners, Lawrence Guo and William Lu, from Broad & Bright and Allen & Overy respectively.

Wonder Auto Technology has completed an underwritten follow-on public offering of its common stock on the NASDAQ

After a succession of property group IPOs by Evergrande, Glorious Property, Longfor and Powerlong, Mingfa Group has launched its US$284m IPO on the HKSE.

Law firms from around the globe have pieced together the acquisitions and financings that has launched Indonesian listed company, Delta, into the coal mining industry through its purchase of Indonesian coal mining contractor, Buma.

Six law firms – Skadden, Fangda, Maples and Calder, Commerce & Finance, O'Melveny & Myers and Shearman & Sterling – have shown creativity and multitasking skills while acting on the concurrent IPO and merger of CRIC.

易居中国与新浪合资公司中国房产信息集团（CRIC）在纳斯达克成功发行IPO，融资额达2.5亿美元。世达、方达、通商等六家律所共同参与了这一富创造性的分拆上市交易。

With the struggling economy seeing many clients adopting cost-cutting measures and experienced lawyers on the move, some mid-level players are quickly rising to the occasion.

Beijing firm Run Ming has grown its partnership with the addition of former general counsel for Alstom in China, Charles Liang, and former counsel of O'Melveny & Myers, Kathy Yang.