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Fifteen Hong Kong lawyers win higher rights to appear in court

Fifteen lawyers have been granted approval to appear in Hong Kong courts with exemption from litigation training, as the region moves to broaden the scope of work law firms are permitted to handle. Some of Hong Kong's top dispute resolution partners - including top-ranked Skadden disputes partner Paul Mitchard QC and Ashurst senior associate and former barrister Sanjay Sakhrani - are among the line-up receiving Higher Rights of Audience (HRA).
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Top 10 global and European M&A deals for January

A comprehensive list of the top global and European deals struck in the past month, featuring Stansted Airport, Generali and EON.
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MoFo and Sidley act for Chinese developer on HK$4.35bn share placing

Morrison & Foerster and Sidley Austin have advised Chinese property developer Evergrande Real Estate on a HK$4.35bn (£368m) share placing. The placement saw the company sell one billion Evergrande shares – equivalent to around 6.7% of the company – at HK$4.35 each in a bid to raise funds. Sidley served as US and Hong Kong counsel to Evergrande, fielding a team led by the firm's head of corporate finance Huanting Timothy Li and corporate partner Constance Choy.
2 minute read

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CC relocates partners to Hong Kong and Qatar

Clifford Chance (CC) is relocating two partners to Asia in a bid to strengthen its practices in Hong Kong and Qatar. The magic circle firm is boosting its Doha office with the addition of corporate partner Jason Mendens from Sydney, who will be the firm's first corporate partner on the ground in the resource-rich Gulf country.
2 minute read

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Slaughters, Simpson Thacher among firms on $398m Chinalco HK listing

Slaughter and May, Paul Hastings and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett are among a raft of firms to have advised on the $398m (£253m) Hong Kong initial public offering of Chinalco Mining Corporation International. The company, a subsidiary of Chinalco, China's biggest producer of aluminium, is raising cash to help fund a copper mining project in Peru.
2 minute read

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Linklaters makes corporate hire in Singapore with White & Case partner

Linklaters has made a notable hire for its Singapore corporate team with the addition of M&A partner William Kirschner from White & Case. Kirschner, who is based in White & Case's local office, is joining Linklaters' Singapore corporate team of 15 lawyers which is led by partner trio Stuart Bedford, Kevin Wong and Sophie Mathur.
2 minute read

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Dealmaker: Paul Chow

The Davis Polk & Wardwell heavyweight reflects on Asia's 2013 prospects, Slaughter and May and sartorial panic
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Tropic thunder – are India and Mauritius turning a blind eye to money laundering?

Mauritius has no doubt earned an excellent reputation as a credible financial services centre over the past 20 years and it must be acknowledged that the India/Mauritius double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) has played a pivotal role in this success. Though India has several treaties offering similar tax benefits, the Mauritian platform has arguably remained the favoured route for foreign direct investment (FDI) into India by way of Mauritian special purpose vehicles. Both countries have benefited from the DTAA. While India has received a significant amount of FDI for economic growth, Mauritius has been able to develop its financial services industry, which now constitutes about 5% of its GDP.
6 minute read

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Norton Rose hires Bakers partner in Beijing

Norton Rose has strengthened its Beijing office with the hire of corporate partner Barbara Li from the local arm of Baker & McKenzie. Li, who is dual qualified in the UK and China, is an M&A lawyer with particular expertise in mining, energy and infrastructure. Her hire takes the total number of partners in Norton Rose's Beijing office to eight and comes as part of a push by the firm into Chinese inbound and outbound investment work.
2 minute read

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Solving the debt problem - the impact of changing regulations on debt funding

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, banks and other financial institutions have been hit by a tsunami of regulatory proposals. Take for instance Basel III (and its European offshoot, CRD IV-CRR); the Vickers and Liikanen reports; the proposed single supervisory mechanism; recovery and resolution proposals for banks in the European Union; Dodd-Frank in the US; Solvency II for insurers within the EU; and the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) proposals for shadow banking. The volume and complexity of new regulation has been routinely criticised as the root cause of the continuing financial challenges.
8 minute read

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