Lee and Li law firm news

A group of four lawyers from US firm Howrey have launched the Taipei office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton—the firm’s second office in Asia.

SemiLEDs Corporation has become the first Taiwanese LED manufacturer to hit the NADAQ Global Select Market after its US$102m IPO

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has recently become the first mainland company to list in Taiwan. The well-received deal bodes well for other PRC companies that may want to tap the investor base on the other side of the Strait for fresh capital.

扬子江船业近日成为首家在台湾上市的中国大陆企业，其台湾存托凭证（TDR）自上市后累计涨幅净值达1410万美元。

Over 8,000 IP lawyers from all over the world attended the132nd annual conference hosted by the International Trademark Association (INTA) in Boston recently. For a regular attendee like King & Wood patent partner Shi Yusheng, what becomes immediately noticeable is the growing number of legal representatives from Chinese firms.

With less than two months to go before the Macallan ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2010, the race for the best trophy haul of the night is intensifying, and five firms are finalists in more than ten categories apiece.

A panel of legal industry pundits predict Tiger-Year trends and provide a guide to the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead

Eight law firms have worked on the first listing of a European company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s main board (HKSE) – the IPO of Germany’s Schramm Holdings AG.

By Daniel Lee of Lee and Li – Lawyer-client communication issues in the cross-Strait legal environment.

In one of Taiwan's largest M&A transactions in recent years, international and local Taiwan firms have been working together to facilitate AIG's US$2.15bn sell-off of its Taiwan life insurance unit - Nan Shan Life Insurance.

It was the first year in which the Taiwan Deal of the Year was presented at the ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2009, and a whole raft of firms received accolades for their role.

Now that the dust has settled over the announcement of the ALB Hong Kong Law Awards winners, one thing has become clear: players right through the ranks of Hong Kong’s legal services industry still managed to record another fantastic year of landmark transactions.

Paul, Weiss has assisted The Carlyle Group (Carlyle) in a US$1.8bn deal to create the largest pay-TV operator in Taiwan.

For two decades, Fujian has flourished on investment coming from Taiwan. And for the first time in history, the wealthy southern province will play host to branch offices of Taiwan law firms.

作为促进海峡两岸交流的又一项重要决策，国台办近日宣布允许台湾律师事务所在福州和厦门开设分支机构。

As Taiwanese companies pursue growth on the international stage and seek capital to fund expansion, local Taiwanese law firms are wading in a sea of instructions

And the finalists are...
It's that time of year again. Now in its fifth year, the ALB Hong Kong Law Awards is back and promises to be bigger and better than ever in 2006. The following pages document the official finalists - and potential winners - of this year's awards

Taiwanese firm Tsar & Tsai, together with Herbert Smith, has advised Goldman Sachs as sole global coordinator and bookrunner on the first convertible bond issuance by a Taiwanese company in the international capital markets this year.

Jones Day has acted on the first cross-border residential mortgage-backed securities offering for a Taiwanese bank - Hsinchu International Bank.

Getting the leverage ratio right can make a big difference to the profitability of a law firm. ALB investigates leverage ratios around the region and asks how high can they go