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  • Mori Hamada, Ropes & Gray, Shearman get Bare for Shiseido
    | Monday, 1 February 2010
    Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Ropes and Gray and Shearman & Sterling have landed roles on one of the global cosmetics industry’s biggest transactions this year, the US$1.7bn acquisition of Bare Escentuals by Japan’s Shiseido.
  • ALB Watchlist 2010
    | Friday, 22 January 2010
    As the industry enters the New Year with a renewed sense of optimism, ALB singles out ten firms that are set to have a bigger 2010 than most.
  • ANALYSIS: US mid-tier scales Great Wall
    | Wednesday, 9 December 2009
    Just because you’re a mid-tier US firm doesn’t mean you have to limit yourself to mid-cap clients. Not here in China anyway. ALB China investigates
  • Reed Smith drops lockstep system of promotion
    | Monday, 2 November 2009
    In the wake of similar moves by other international law firms, Reed Smith has announced its abandonment of the traditional lockstep promotion system in favour of a new competency-based program which will classify its associates not by year but by competency level.
  • Firms multitasking for CRIC's "creative" IPO
    | Friday, 23 October 2009
    Six law firms – Skadden, Fangda, Maples and Calder, Commerce & Finance, O'Melveny & Myers and Shearman & Sterling – have shown creativity and multitasking skills while acting on the concurrent IPO and merger of CRIC.
  • 六家律所协助CRIC在美成功上市
    | Friday, 23 October 2009
    易居中国与新浪合资公司中国房产信息集团(CRIC)在纳斯达克成功发行IPO,融资额达2.5亿美元。世达、方达、通商等六家律所共同参与了这一富创造性的分拆上市交易。
  • Team effort results in world’s second largest IPO
    | Tuesday, 29 September 2009
    Law firms in Hong Kong, China and the US have pulled off the second-largest IPO in the world in 2009. Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) has concurrently listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and the HKSE with a global offering worth approximately US$5.3bn
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