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Star Drew & Napier partner quits for WongPartnership
By ALB
| Thursday, 2 September 2010
In one of the most high-profile lateral moves in recent times, Manoj Sandrasegara has left Drew & Napier for rival firm WongPartnership. He will lead WongPartnership’s insolvency & restructuring practice group alongside current heads Chou Sean Yu and Mark Choy.
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DLA reshuffles Asia IP/IT team after key losses; appoints new head of projects
By ALB
| Wednesday, 1 September 2010
With Asia IP co-heads Justin Davidson and Gigi Cheah set to depart to Norton Rose, and Middle East, South Asia and Africa (MESA) IP head Joycia Young defecting to Clyde & Co, DLA Piper has moved quickly to plug holes in its management by elevating Matthew Glynn to head up its IP and technology practice in the region.
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Orrick, Sidley clinch landmark issue transfer from LSE to HKSE
By Pamela Hamer-Koh
| Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Sidley Austin, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Carey Olsen, Memery Crystal and Dong Heng Law Firm have all won mandates in the first-ever delisting of a Chinese company from London’s AIM (alternative investment market) – and the subsequent listing in Hong Kong with a 144A placement to US investors.
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Singapore: top spot for international arbitration
By Pamela Hamer-Koh
| Friday, 27 August 2010
Singapore is fast becoming a centre of choice for international arbitrators seeking neutral ground, as the significant increase in international cases involving non-Singaporean companies being heard in the Lion City shows.
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Clifford Chance wins favour with Asian logistics giant
By Pamela Hamer-Koh
| Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Asia’s largest diversified trading company Noble Group has retained Clifford Chance for the second time this year – and the third time in less than 12 months – in a dual-tranche debt issue valued at US$750m.
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ANALYSIS: The Russian bear’s bull run
By ALB
| Monday, 23 August 2010
Chinese-owned cranes dotting the horizon or chaebol-operated factories churning out consumer electronics are familiar sights to business travellers in most Asian or Middle-Eastern countries nowadays. But the same Chinese construction companies building pipelines deep in Siberia or the same Korean company making DVD players in the Altai may still surprise many. But for how long? As the Russian bear awakes, lawyers on both sides of the sovetsko-kitayskoye soglasheniye o (the border agreement demarcating China and East Asia from Russian territory) stand to benefit.
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Malaysia: Zul Rafique, Clifford Chance, A&O advise shopping giant's IPO
By Pamela Hamer-Koh
| Friday, 20 August 2010
Zul Rafique& partners, Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy have advised on the US$244m initial public offering of CapitaMalls Trust (CMMT) – CapitaMalls Asia’s real estate investment trust on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad – the securities exchange arm of Bersa Malaysia.
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Laos: Chandler Thong Ek, DFDL, LS Horizon, Milbank and Latham & Watkins act on multi-billion-dollar
By Pamela Hamer-Koh
| Friday, 20 August 2010
Thai firms Chandler Thong Ek and LS Horizon, Vietnamese firm DFDL and international firms Milbank and Latham & Watkins have advised on a US$2.7bn project financing deal for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic that involved a syndicated, multi-tranched, multi-currency facility from nine Thai banks – in Thailand’s largest ever project financing syndication and Lao’s first thermal power project.
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