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Laixiang (Joseph) LI Mr. Li has broad experience in cross-border investment and financing, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures transactions. Mr. Li represents clients from industries including TMT, biomedicine, and education. He regularly represents clients in handling non-profit organization and charity matters, including establishing foundations (or PRC representative offices), setting up charitable trusts, making grants and handling daily compliance issues, etc ...

Promoted Senior Counsels Yuanyuan CHU Patent applications, invalidations, litigation and consulting. Ying CUI Venture capital and private equity; mergers and acquisitions; general corporate matters; foreign direct investment. Lin GUI Venture capital and private equity; mergers and acquisitions; domestic and overseas listings and restructurings; general corporate matters ...

Han Kun Law Offices is pleased to announce that Denning Jin, a highly regarded litigator in litigation and international arbitration, has joined the firm as a partner, further strengthening the firm's dispute resolution practice. Mr ...

Deacons advises the sole sponsor Fortune Financial Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Wenye Group Holdings Limited, seeking to raise up to approximately HK$203 million (subject to the exercise of over-allotment option). This company is an established building decoration services provider based in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province ...

Deacons advises Q P Group Holdings Limited on its Main Board IPO, seeking to raise up to approximately HK$193 million (subject to the exercise of over-allotment option). The company is an established paper product manufacturing and printing services provider headquartered in Hong Kong ...

Deacons advises the sole sponsor WAC Worldsec Corporate Finance Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Wise Ally International Holdings Limited. The company is an electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider offering full turnkey solutions with particular focus in consumer electronic products ...

Recently, CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd. successfully completed its restructuring reform in Beijing upon the execution of transaction documents and closing procedures. This transaction is the first mixed-ownership and employee stock ownership reform to be approved by the PRC Ministry of Finance ...

Deacons advises the sole sponsor SPDB International Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Kwan Yong Holdings Limited. The company is a main contractor in the provision of building construction works in Singapore. It ranked fourth among contractors in the institutional sector in Singapore in terms of the average institution CONQUAS (Construction Quality Assessment System) score in 2018, according to a market research report commissioned by the company ...

Buenos Aires, December 21st, 2019. It is with great sadness that Estudio Beccar Varela announces the passing of its partner Dr. Damián Fernando Beccar Varela, on December 19th in the city of Buenos Aires. Damián was the firm’s senior partner from 1985 to 2006. A natural leader with a charismatic and sensitive personality, throughout his career he accomplished many of his goals, both professionally and personally ...

Asters acts as a legal counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in connection with its up to EUR 10 million financing to Kormotech Group. Kormotech is one of the top three market players in the Ukrainian pet food market and the first and largest Ukrainian producer of high-quality pet food for cats and dogs. The company exports its production to over 25 countries ...

Enerpac Tool Group (NYSE: EPAC, formerly known as Actuant Corporation) recently announced the closing of the sale of its Engineered Components & Systems segment to an affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners, LLC for nearly $214.5 million ...

On 15 December 2019, the closing lecture was delivered at Asters Arbitration Moot Court School 2019. About 20 students of the leading Ukrainian law schools from Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv took part in this new educational programme aimed at developing skills of young lawyers participating in the most prestigious international arbitration moot courts ...

We are pleased to share with you that Kochhar & Co. is the recipient of the India Legal Awards for the Best Mergers & Acquisitions Team of the Year 2019-20. The Award was presented by Mr. Soli Jehangir Sorabjee, prominent jurist and former Attorney-General of India and Mr. Lalit Bhasin, President SILF at the recently concluded 5th India Legal Summit & Awards 2019 in New Delhi. On behalf of the Firm, the award was received by Mr. Chandrasekhar Tampi (Senior Partner – Corporate M&A), Mr ...

Stefan Artner, DORDA partner and head of the real estate practice group, and Marie-Luise Pugl, real estate lawyer at DORDA, advised DLH Real Estate Austria, a company of the family-run Zech Group, on the sale of logistics properties near airport Vienna-Schwechat. The buyer is the German company Deka Immobilien; the parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price ...

December 17th, 2019. Beccar Varela advised Agrofina S.A. on the issuance of Class IX notes, worth US$9.014.981, carried out under the company’s Global Program for the issuance of simple notes, not convertible into shares, for a maximum nominal value of up to US$60 million (or its equivalent in other currencies). Class IX notes, issued on December 4th, 2019, will accrue interest at an annual fixed rate of 13.65%. Their maturity date will take place on July 4th, 2021 ...

Asters acts as a legal counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in connection with its EUR 10 million financing to Grain Alliance Group, a large Ukrainian agricultural producer, which cultivates over 50,000 hectares of land and is owned by Claesson & Anderzen of Sweden. The loan will finance the expansion of the group’s storage facilities in northern Ukraine and the purchase of agricultural machinery. The project is co-financed by a EUR 1 ...

We are delighted to announce Deacons has won the "Hong Kong Independent Firm of the Year" award at the Euromoney Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2019. This is the 6th consecutive year Deacons has been awarded this highly regarded accolade. Charmaine Koo, co-head of our Intellectual Property department was recognised for her work in dispute resolution and litigation, and received the individual award for “Best in IP dispute resolution” ...

Milan, December 18, 2019 – The international law firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners has been awarded the Transatlantic Award 2019 by the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, the recognition reserved for organizations that have distinguished themselves in fostering the development of transatlantic relations between Italy and the United States. GOP received the award during the traditional Transatlantic Award Gala Dinner, held on December 9 at the East End Studios in Milan ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) starts off 2020 with a major project that will consolidate the legal & tax services structure offered to the business community of Cluj-Napoca (Cluj County) and the neighboring counties. After evaluating the needs of the legal market in Transylvania region and the expectations of the local clients, Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) and the law firm of Păun Ciprian and Associates (PCA Law Office) decided to join forces and merge ...

A team led by Dr. Johan Schneider, Managing Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised the insolvency administrator of Bertels Textilhandels GmbH, Hamburg-based lawyer Dr. Hagen von Diepenbroick of the law firm of Münzel & Böhm, on the sale of the assets and shares in non-insolvent Berra Handelsgesellschaft mbH to WIND GmbH, a member of Sendler group. The contract has already been notarized, with the transfer to take effect on January 1, 2020 ...

Hanna Ericson, located at the office in Linköping, becomes partner at Delphi effective January 1, 2020. Hanna specializes in insolvency law and has extensive experience from different insolvency matters as a liquidator as well as bankruptcy manager. Hanna also has experience of finance and financial regulatory issues, as well as dispute resolution. – I am excited to enter my new role as a partner at Delphi, a firm that is strongly characterized by our values ...

For the second consecutive year, lawyers throughout Sweden have elected Agnes Hammarstrand as the lawyer they would use in a commercial law matter. The survey is conducted every year among lawyers all over Sweden by the news site Legally Yours. More than 900 participants voted for the lawyer they would engage, and Agnes Hammarstrand was, once again, elected Lawyer of the Lawyers within the field of business law. – Personally, it feels a bit unreal, but it is very exciting for Delphi ...

Han Kun Law Offices and its Hong Kong associated law firm provided legal advice in connection with the listing and public offering of Suoxinda Holdings Limited (“Suoxinda”, Stock Code: 3680) on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, respectively as PRC and Hong Kong counsel to the sole sponsor and the underwriters ...

Buenos Aires, 9 December 2019. Roberto H. Crouzel, a partner at Beccar Varela, was recognized with the inaugural “Lifetime Achievement Award for Pro Bono work” at the “Chambers Diversity & Inclusion Awards: Latin America 2019” ceremony, held on December 5th at the Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel & Convention Centre. Chambers and Partners, the publication that annually organizes these Awards, has granted this prize for the first time, recognizing outstanding careers in pro bono efforts ...

They presented the need to have clear rules that define the interaction with regulators and consumers SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. In-house counsel discussed the legal challenges of Dominican companies in the digital environment and proposed the need to update the legal framework in relation to this matter ...