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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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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