Davis Polk acted as U.S. law adviser to Warburg Pincus in connection with its investment in Quikr Mauritius Holding Private Limited. Existing investors Matrix Partners India, Norwest Venture Partners and eBay Inc. also participated in this round of fund raising, which is the fifth and the largest round of capital raised and involved an investment of $32 million.

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A team of attorneys from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has been retained by a special committee of Chinese pork and produce processor Zhongpin Inc. to evaluate a preliminary offer from the company’s CEO to buy out shareholders and take Zhongpin private.

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Global law firm White & Case LLP advised on the US$3 billion financing supporting the take private of Alibaba.com Ltd, China’s largest e-commerce company. This is the largest China ‘Holdco’ financing to date.

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Two partners are set to fill Hong Kong legal jobs for international law firm DLA Piper, according to a press release.

Joyce Chan and Heng Loong Cheong are leaving jobs closely associated with Dewey & LeBoeuf.

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International law firm O’Melveny & Myers tapped one of its own to head up its office in a China office, according to a press release.

David Johnson advances from being capital markets partner in Century City, Los Angeles, California, to a key Hong Kong legal job.

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King & Wood Mallesons has advised Hong Kong-listed China Resources Gas Group Limited (CRG) on its US$237.7 million acquisition of AEI China Gas Ltd.

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DLA Piper today announces that a group of lawyers led by partners Joyce Chan and Heng Loong Cheong will join the firm’s Hong Kong office from Dewey & LeBoeuf.

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Hogan Lovells has been advising JKC Australia LNG (a joint venture between Japan’s JGC Corporation, Houston-based KBR and Japan’s Chiyoda Corporation) in relation to the US$34 billion Ichthys LNG Project in Australia. JKC signed a contract with INPEX earlier this year for the engineering, procurement and construction of the onshore LNG facilities, to be built near Darwin in Australia.

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International law firm Ropes & Gray is looking forward to creating Hong Kong legal jobs later this month when it is officially licensed to practice law in the Asian city, according to a press release.

The firm intends to apply its expertise in the practice areas of private equity, mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, equity capital markets and debt capital markets.

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Ropes & Gray today announced significant developments in the expansion of the firm’s capabilities in China:

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