Freshfields law firm news

From a one-man show to one of the more reputable firms in Singapore; that’s the story of Tan Peng Chin LLC in a nutshell.

FoxMandal Little (FML), India's oldest and largest law firm made legal history when it formally opened a permanent office in London with a gala launch party on February 19, 2008 at Kings Street, London.

International law firms CMS Cameron McKenna and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have announced the biggest cross-border M&A transaction of 2011.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Linklaters’ counsel Howard Lam to join the firm as partner.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has hired Li Chen to join its Beijing global corporate group as of counsel.

Hong Kong corporate lawyer Charles Ching was among the latest to be promoted to ‘of counsel’ at Freshfields. His was also one of three recent ‘of counsel’ promotions in the corporate practice of Magic Circle firms.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is the latest in a long line of elite US firms to undergo localisation following the moves of other Hong Kong-based US firms – most recently Davis Polk and Latham & Watkins which underwent the same process in 2010.

In a growing trend of sophisticated transactions involving Vietnamese corporations, Freshfields and Baker & McKenzie have advised on TH Milk’s acquisition of a sugar refinery owned by UK-based food producer Tate & Lyle.

To ramp up its China practice, international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP has promoted its Hong Kong-based partner Teresa Ko as the chairwoman of its China practice and transferred three other partners Jenny Connolly, Melissa Thomas and Simon Weller to its China branches.

Clashes between police and anti-government protestors intensified this week as 1000 GCC troops entered Bahrain on Tuesday 15 March. A ‘state of emergency’ declaration by the Kingdom of Bahrain prompted lawyers and staff from international firms to evacuate Manama; as they await the all-clear signal to be issued from the British Foreign Office.

Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, Freshfields, Ashurst, Herbert Smith and Norton Rose all sprang into action yesterday amid concern for the safety of their Tokyo-based employees following last week’s earthquake, tsunami and the recently heightened fears of spreading nuclear contamination.

China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co (CAIGA) has recently signed a historic deal to acquire Cirrus Industries (Cirrus), the second-largest manufacturer of single general aviation aircraft in the world. Based in Minnesota, Cirrus has delivered nearly 5,000 piston-engine airplanes to 58 countries and regions over the past decade.

中航通用飞机公司近日与美国西锐飞机工业公司签订协议，收购其100%的股权。这是中国航空工业首次并购欧美发达国家飞机整机制造企业。美国西锐公司是全球第二大通用飞机制造企业，产品销售到58个国家。

Australian law firm Blake Dawson has appointed former Freshfields lawyer Michael Sheng as a partner in its Shanghai office.

澳洲律所博雷·道盛任命前富而德高级律师盛冕为其上海办公室合伙人。

Freshfields and Dewey have advised on the first major overseas acquisition by United Energy Group, a non-state-owned energy company that is listed in Hong Kong and owns assets in the Liaohe Oil Field in China.

富而德和杜威路博近日参与了联合能源集团有限公司斥资7亿美元收购英国石油巴基斯坦之上游石油及天然气业务的交易项目。联合能源成为首家在海外进行大型石油资产收购的非国有能源企业。

Maples and Calder’s Cayman Islands managing partner Gareth Griffiths will relocate to Hong Kong to replace current joint-managing partner Spencer Privett – who takes up the post of chairman of the Maples Fund Services’s Asia-Pacific division, effective Dec 2010.

Maples and Calder近期宣布，将开曼群岛管理合伙人Gareth Griffiths 调至香港办公室任联席管理合伙人。

Hadiputrano, Hadinoto & Partners, Soemadipradja & Taher, Holman Fenwick Willan and Freshfields have advised on a landmark cash and share swap tri-merger involving three public-listed companies. The deal has created one of the biggest global players in coal and has led to the first-ever listing of an Indonesian coal miner on the LSE main board.