Goldman Sachs law firm news

The rivalry heats up amongst Tokyo-based international firms at the night of nights for Japan’s legal fraternity – the ALB Japan Law Awards 2011.

ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2010 Real Estate Firm of the Year winner Mayer Brown JSM has advised Hang Lung Properties, a Hong Kong-listed company, in its US$1.42bn follow-on offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

China’s second-largest wind turbine maker Xingjiang Goldwind Science & Technology has raised US$1.05bn in its second listing attempt on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange – after earlier plans to list in June were shelved due to poor market conditions.

新疆金风科技近日在香港联合交易所挂牌上市。新疆金风由新疆天阳律师事务所担任法律顾问而承销商则由富而德和竞天公诚律师事务所提供法律咨询。

King & Wood, Freshfields and Debevoise are representing AIA in its highly anticipated Hong Kong IPO. As the issuer has businesses and operations in 15 markets in the region, a large number of local firms in these jurisdictions have also been engaged for legal support.

美国国际集团(AIG)旗下友邦保险近日正式启动备受关注的公开招股，将于29日挂牌，计划集资约200亿美元。除金杜、富而德以及德普三家大所任发行人律师外，还有多家亚洲律所也为此上市项目提供过了法律意见和服务。

The QR National initial public offer will see Allens Arthur Robinson walk away with a healthy pay check of A$4.8m, reports Fairfax Media.

Maples and Calder, Richards Butler in association with Reed Smith, Reed Smith and King & Wood have all won mandates to advise on the Hong Kong IPO of Mongolian miner Winsway.

China-Mongolia coking coal supplier and transporter, Winsway Coking Coal Holdings, is set to become the very first BVI company to list in Hong Kong since the HKSE approved the listing of BVI-incorporated companies in December last year.

永晖焦煤股份有限公司将在10月份成为第一家英属维尔京群岛(BVI)注册成立的香港上市公司。该公司由金杜，齐伯礼，开曼Maples and Calder和雷曼律师事务所蒙古分所提供法律咨询。

King & Wood, Sidley Austin and Conyers have recently advised SouFun Holdings, the country’s largest property website, on its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The company sold 2.9 million American Depositary Shares, raising US$125m.

中国房地产网站运营商搜房网近日在纽约证券交易所发行IPO, 成功募资1.25亿美元。此次首发项目由金杜，康德明，盛德，方达，盛信和苏利文•克伦威尔共同提供法律服务。

Paul Hastings has strategically relocated real estate partner Derek Roth from Los Angeles to Hong Kong – in anticipation of a swathe of big-ticket deals, coming out of Asia in the next six to 12 months.

At a Symposium on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) co-hosted by DLA Piper recently, the political and legal developments in promoting CSR in China and the country's new Charity Law were discussed.

作为英国2010年上海世博会法律主题周系列活动的一部分，DLA Piper律师事务所于本周二协办了一场有关企业社会责任的座谈会。

Paul Hastings has headhunted the managing director and senior counsel of Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, to be partner in its Hong Kong office.

Banpu, Thailand’s largest coal miner, has retained Herbert Smith and its associated Indonesian firm, Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung, to advise on the US, UK, Singapore and Indonesian law aspects of Indonesia’s second largest block trade to take place in the last decade.

Jincheng Tongda & Neal recently advised on Camelot’s NYSE US$150m IPO and American depositary shares offering, marking the largest US IPO from a PRC company seen in 2010.

北京柯莱特信息系统有限公司近日在纽约首次公开发售1.5亿美元美国存托股，是中国公司2010年目前完成的最大的美股发行交易。

Japanese firm Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, international firm Davis Polk and the Tokyo office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have all landed mandates on the US$2bn Singapore offering of senior bonds by Japan's second largest bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC).