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Transfer Window Asia: recent moves including Ashurst and Simmons

Ropes & Gray has added to its corporate practice in Seoul with the hire of counsel Jaewoo Lee from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Lee, who joins the US firm as a partner, will initially be based out of New York and Hong Kong but will relocate to Ropes and Gray's Seoul office when his license to practice in the North Asian state is approved.
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Asia Transfer Window: recent moves including CC, White & Case and KWM

Clifford Chance is to boost its project finance practice in Tokyo with the relocation of its Paris-based project finance partner Ross Howard in September 2013. Howard, who typically advises public sector entities, sponsors and lenders on projects in the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors, is expected to add to the Asia finance practice as sources of project finance become more diverse.
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CC and Latham lead on KrisEnergy's £139m Singapore IPO

Clifford Chance, Latham & Watkins and Allen & Gledhill have acted on the S$270.8m (£139m, $214m) initial public offering (IPO) of KrisEnergy in Singapore. The oil and gas explorer, which is based in the island city-state, issued 151.99m shares on the Singapore exchange at $1.10 per share, and sold a further 94.16m shares to cornerstone investors.
2 minute read

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Addleshaws moves Africa energy market up agenda with double partner hire

Addleshaw Goddard is driving Africa up the agenda with a push into the energy and resources markets following the hire of Shepherd and Wedderburn partner duo Angus Rollo and Guy Winter. The pair, both of whom previously worked at Linklaters and Shearman & Sterling, will boost partner numbers within the firm's Africa group to six.
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Linklaters hires top Paris capital markets partner from Shearman

Linklaters has recruited Paris capital markets partner Bertrand Senechal from Shearman & Sterling, as the magic circle firm moves to restock its practice in the French capital following the loss of a team to White & Case earlier this year. Senechal - who will start at the magic circle firm on 2 September - has been a partner at Shearman since 2005 and is highly rated for equity capital markets work in France.
2 minute read

International Edition

White & Case seals hire of A&O Milan team

Allen & Overy's (A&O's) Italy office has seen a seven-strong team of lawyers depart for White & Case, including partner Paola Leocani. Leocani joins the US firm's Milan office alongside a counsel, three associates and two trainees. Leocani joined A&O's international capital markets practice in 1998 and was made up as a partner in 2006. She has worked on mandates including the Italian Government's €18bn (£15.4bn) bond sale in 2012, the third issue of a four-year inflation-linked bond.
2 minute read

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Dentons boost Hong Kong cap markets team with O'Melveny hire

Dentons has boosted its Hong Kong capital markets practice with the hire of corporate partner Gordon Ng from O'Melveny & Myers. Ng, who is best known for his work on Hong Kong IPOs, will join the firm as head of corporate finance and capital markets for Asia, effective July 1.
3 minute read

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Freshfields, Simpson Thacher line up for multibillion-dollar Alibaba IPO

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett are understood to have taken much-coveted roles on the Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) of Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce company. The potential listing, which has attracted much market interest, is set to be the biggest IPO since Facebook's high-profile listing last year.
2 minute read

International Edition

A&O leads on Co-op Bank's £1.5bn restructuring plan and listing

Allen & Overy (A&O) has taken the headline advisory role on the Co-operative Group's £1.5bn debt restructuring rescue deal for its banking arm, ahead of a listing on the London Stock Exchange. The group today (17 June) announced a plan for its bondholders to help recapitalise The Co-op Bank, putting forward a deal which will see the group's junior securities holders offered shares in the bank.
2 minute read

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International firms in Hong Kong put high-yield dim sum bonds on the menu

International law firms in Hong Kong are picking up growing numbers of advisory mandates on high-yield dim sum bonds, following a surge in investor appetite for the product over the last quarter. Firms such as Linklaters, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom are among the international players turning their attention to the market as a string of sub-investment grade Chinese companies consider new fundraising options. To date issuances of renminbi (RMB) denominated 'junk' bonds have been almost unheard of in the region, with the RMB bond market dominated by investment-grade issuers since the first dim sum bonds were issued by Chinese banks in Hong Kong in 2007.
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