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Oh Ebashi, Ashurst and Clifford Chance have advised on a significant stake acquisition in the print manufacturing sector as Tokyo-based global paper manufacturer Rengo acquires a 29.9% stake in Hong Kong-based Asia Packaging.

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.

Clifford Chance has promoted three additional senior lawyers to 10 others currently in the position of counsel/consultant. The promotions were made in the firm’s Tokyo and Singapore offices.

An increase in Japanese investment throughout South East Asia and Australia has led more Australian firms to focus their resources on building relationships with the Japanese market.

Blake Dawson will expand its Japan team significantly in the coming months predicting strengthening outbound M&A deals and PPP partnerships between the two countries predicted in the coming months.

Lawyers from Davis Polk’s Tokyo, Hong Kong and London offices worked with local Vietnamese counsel YKVN to complete a notes offering by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The financial crisis has created opportunity for investment banks Asia to accelerate expansion plans both within and beyond the region.

Even though the financial crisis hit hard, banking & finance lawyers have found innovative ways to keep busy and keep fee revenues up

AllBright Law Office and JSM (in association with Mayer Brown and Mayer Brown International) have together advised Shanghai Industrial Holdings (SIH) on its proposed acquisition of distressed property company Neo-China Land for US$354.2m.

上海市政府的投资子公司上海实业控股近日以27.5亿港元收购中资地产开发商中新集团有限公司45%的股权。

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The firms have completed the largest securities offering in Japan of the past decade

A strategic review of Blake Dawson’s operations looking to find ways to take the firm to the next level ended in a decision to become the first Australian law firm to open an office in Japan. The move has not been all plain sailing as the firm and Japanese regulators are both breaking new ground but Blake Dawson’s north Asia head, Ian Williams, hopes that it will be a case of the early bird catching the worm

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ALB identifies 25 of the most outstanding in-house legal counsel in Asia.

The heads of some of Asia’s biggest corporations feel that economic recovery may be on the way and see investment potential in certain Asian countries.

Japanese investment bank Nomura has hired lawyer Peter Siembab to head up the bank’s transaction legal team in Hong Kong, covering the investment banking division in Asia, excluding Japan.

Paul, Weiss, Skadden, Davis Polk and two of Japan's largest domestic firms, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto and Nagashima Ohno Tsunematsu have all played leading roles in one of the largest Japanese deals to close this year–Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co's acquisition of Citigroup's controlling interest in Nikko Asset Management (NAM).

A recent study ranked Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo as having the best judicial systems in Asia. Richard Szabo investigates what overseas employment opportunities the Asian markets have to offer.