Tag: King & Wood Mallesons

Five law firms counselled parties involved in the HKD1.36 billion (USD174 million) listing of innovative biomedicine company Kelun-Biotech Pharmaceutical in Hong Kong

Haiwen & Partners, Han Kun Law Offices, King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) and Zhong Lun Law Firm counselled China’s initial set of four infrastructure real estate investment trust (REIT) expansion projects

When legal professionals look for inspiration or diversion, where do they turn?

Gianni & Origoni, Pedersoli Studio Legale, Shearman & Sterling, KWM and Linklaters advised luxury yacht maker Ferretti Group on its dual listing on the Euronext Milan

China Business Law Journal reveals its top performing law firms of 2022

Merits & Tree Law Offices continues its expansion strategy with the hiring of Gu Jing, Cai Guoqiang and Zhang Jianxin as partners

Crypto lender Amber Group’s chief legal officer Benjamin Bai has joined King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) as a Shanghai-based partner, providing legal services for both intellectual property and digital assets and fintech, Law.com reports

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) and Fangda Partners assisted in Axin Trust’s restructuring in a USD1.26 billion private placement involving the issue of 4.375 billion shares

Reed Smith enlarged its Asian regulatory team with the hiring of Hong Kong-based partner Jill Wong

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) Yangtze River Delta IP Centre, in partnership with the Wuxi government, unveiled China’s first semiconductor IP operation centre on 26 March in Jiangsu province

Notable IPOs, De-SPAC, bond issuance, joint venture, license agreement, and loans in March and their legal advisors

As part of our annual exploration of billing rates, we decided to begin analysing specific sectors for an insight into how fee practices vary

China Business Law Journal announces the most exciting China-related legal transactions and disputes of 2022

JunHe kicks off the new year with the hiring of two partners to strengthen its insolvency restructuring and dispute resolution practices

Stressful competition behind the hustle of Guangdong’s legal landscape

Three new lawyers – Lu Qunwei, Ricky Zhou and Wang Feng – have joined Zhong Lun Law Firm to bolster services in its Beijing and Chengdu offices

Three law firms advised automotive technology company ECARX on its Nasdaq listing via a merger with US special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)

Small wonder that the past couple of years have spawned an exciting amount of tech-related reform in China’s courts and arbitration institutions

INEOS, the world's fourth largest petrochemicals group, acquired a 50% stake in Sinopec's Tianjin Nangang Ethylene Project. JunHe and Slaughter and May advised INEOS

Huafang Group, the second largest online entertainment streaming platform in China, raised HKD129 million (USD16.56 million) on its HKEX listing, offering 46 million shares at HKD2.8 each

Micro Connect, a financial platform founded by former HKEX CEO Charles Li, signed a USD25 million asset-backed loan with HSBC

Sunshine Insurance, a leading private insurance group in China, issued H shares for the first time in an HKEX IPO, raising USD861.4 million and becoming the fourth largest listing on the city’s bourse in 2022

China Business Law Journal conducted its annual legal market survey for 2021 with 94 leading law firms to seek their views on trends of the past year

Merits & Tree Law Offices has appointed Wang Tingru, Diao Shengyan and Ren Gulong as Beijing-based partners, while Wang Wenchao, Huang Guangde and Gao Songsong were hired as Shenzhen-based partners

China Business Law Journal identify the leading “branch office” and “homegrown” law firms across different regions

JunHe has hired Gai Bingbing, who formerly practiced at King & Wood Mallesons, as a Beijing-based partner

Chip design software vendor Empyrean has raised RMB3.55 billion (USD522.95 million) through a listing on the ChiNext of the SZSE

Why the new Futures and Derivatives Law is a boost for China towards aligning with international practice?

Han Zhen, Lin Zhijun and Kou Chunyan have joined JunHe to strengthen the firm’s restructuring and M&A, capital markets and environmental law practices

China’s largest consumer genetic testing platform Mega Genomics raised HKD215.3 million (USD27.6 million) from its IPO on the HKEX

NaaS Technology has been listed on Nasdaq through a merger with US company RISE Education Cayman in a deal that makes NaaS the third China concepts stock to go public in the US this year and the first IPO for an electric-vehicle charging-services provider

New roles of intermediaries place them under the microscope of capital market regulation

King & Wood Mallesons acted as Hong Kong counsel with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft providing international counsel on the city’s first 144A catastrophe bond and only its second insurance-linked securities (ILS)

China Business Law Journal reveals the law firms that have excelled in the past year

Intellectual property specialist Gordon Gao brought colleagues Sherry Yao, Zhang Xuting and Cassidy Guo with him from Fangda Partners to join King & Wood Mallesons as partners

After months of intensive surveys, we reveal the winners of our In-house Counsel Awards 2021-22

Easing of regulations on offshore listing brings hope for an end to a long-running Sino-US dispute

Aquila Acquisition Corporation became the first special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to list in Hong Kong

We look back at the most significant transactions and disputes of last year as we ring in the year of the tiger