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Letter from Asia: Should US firms build local practices in Hong Kong?
By Legal Week | July 23, 2010
The Agricultural Bank of China's initial public offering (IPO), expected to become the world's largest, debuted this week, landing squarely in the middle of a debate over whether leading Wall Street law firms should build local practice capability in Hong Kong. The IPO on the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges would seem an obvious rallying cry for those arguing that top US capital markets firms will miss out on deals without their own Hong Kong lawyers - except that the lead lawyers on the AgBank deal are from New York's Davis Polk & Wardwell, which only practises US law.
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Basel III - ill-advised sequel or sound banking rules?
By Legal Week | July 14, 2010
Amid the swathe of proposed rules and regulations that are likely to apply to banks, financial institutions, rating agencies and others in the wake of the financial crisis, there are a significant number of new rules relating to capital adequacy treatment for securitisation transactions. Although widely dubbed Basel III, the proposed rules do not really constitute a new regime so much as a series of amendments to the existing Basel II framework. Like a bad Hollywood sequel, the danger is that Basel III will be longer, more involved and less thought through than the original (and probably worse received by its target audience).
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Slaughters and A&O check out for Ocado IPO
By Friederike Heine | June 25, 2010
Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy (A&O) have taken a lead role as online grocer Ocado looks to go public. Slaughters is taking the lead for the retailer, which is offering employees and all customers who have spent more than £300 with Ocado since the beginning of the year the chance to invest, in addition to institutional investors.
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Magic circle duo elect new German management
By Suzi Ring | June 25, 2010
Clifford Chance (CC) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have elected new management for their German practices. Freshfields has named its global employment, pensions and benefits head Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt as the new managing partner for Germany, Austria and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), with the appointment effective 1 September.
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Norton Rose & Weil land $1.3bn Polish IPO
By Suzi Ring | June 24, 2010
Norton Rose has lined up on one of the largest initial public offerings (IPOs) this year as Polish power utility company Tauron Polska Energia goes public in a $1.3bn (£867m) listing.
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Herbert Smith wins role on record IPO of Chinese banking giant
By Suzi Ring | June 18, 2010
Herbert Smith has won a role on what is set to be the world's largest-ever initial public offering (IPO) as the Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank) goes public. The UK top 10 firm is advising the underwriting banks on the landmark listing, which was initially valued at as much as $30bn (£20.2bn), although market estimates have since been tempered by a drop in China's stock market, with a figure of $23bn (£15.5bn) now thought to be more likely.
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Weil leads on French private equity firm's billion-pound IPO exit
By Legal Week | June 11, 2010
Weil Gotshal & Manges has taken a lead role advising on the DKK12.4bn (£1.4bn) initial public offering (IPO) of Danish food company Chr Hansen. The Weil Gotshal team advising on the flotation was headed up by capital markets partners James Cole and Peter Schwartz, assisted by associates Jesse Zigmund, Aparna Ravi and Augustine Bourne.
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White & Case restocks City banking team with hire of Gide partner duo
By Jeremy Hodges | May 26, 2010
White & Case has made a double partner hire from Gide Loyrette Nouel's London office as the firm continues to rebuild its banking and capital markets practice in the City. Gide partners Michael Doran and Christopher Czarnocki are set to join the US firm's banking and capital markets practice.
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CC capital markets specialist named managing partner at Chinese firm
By Legal Week | May 7, 2010
Clifford Chance (CC) capital markets partner Rupert Li has joined King & Wood as the Chinese firm's new global managing partner. Li, a former partner in CC's Beijing office and member of the firm's management committee, will lead King & Wood's efforts to expand its international law capability with a focus on Hong Kong.
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Deal lawyers cheered as debt markets kick back into life
By Sofia Lind | April 27, 2010
As corporate activity begins its long-awaited recovery in the aftermath of the financial crisis, life certainly promises to be eventful for debt capital markets (DCM) lawyers - which is a considerable improvement on last year. The consensus from deal lawyers is that the debt market is also showing signs of life. New data from Thomson Reuters highlights a healthy revival in DCM activity around the globe, with the first quarter of the year seeing a 37% rise in activity on the last three months of 2009. While Q1 global DCM activity was still down by 10% on the equivalent period last year, the market is no longer entirely driven by companies seeking funding because they have no alternative.
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