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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Leading international law firm Clifford Chance advised Ciments Français on the sale of its 100% stake in Shaanxi Fuping Cement Company Limited (Fuping Cement) to a subsidiary of West China Cement Limited (WCC) for RMB504 million (approximately US$80 million) and its simultaneous investment in WCC, which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

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International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised the sole underwriter, HSBC, on the rights issue by The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited, a pharmaceutical company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

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Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and Merrill Lynch International as the joint lead managers in connection with the Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by Bank of Ceylon of its $500 million 6.875% senior notes due 2017.

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it advised Chinatrust Commercial Bank, Ltd. (“Chinatrust”), as mandated lead arranger, on the acquisition financing for the leveraged buyout of Trimco International Holdings Limited (“Trimco”), a global provider of apparel labelling solutions headquartered in Hong Kong, by funds managed by Partners Group.

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Squire Sanders is augmenting its practices in Asia by bringing on four additional partners to two offices, filling Hong Kong legal jobs and Beijing legal jobs, according to a press release.

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