Freshfields advises on US$748m China Oilfield Services share placing

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised a consortium of underwriters on a placement of H shares by China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL).

COSL will raise around HK$5,819m (US$748m) through the placing of an aggregate of 276,272,000 new H shares.

Freshfields advised the underwriters, including CICC, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, on both the Hong Kong and US law aspects of the placing.

The Freshfields team was led by China chairman Teresa Ko, corporate partner Richard Wang and US corporate partner Calvin Lai.

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