International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Shui On Land Limited, a Hong Kong-listed leading property developer, on its international offering of S$250million in Singapore Dollar-denominated notes to institutional investors in Asia. The notes are issued by Shui On Development (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Shui On Land Limited.

International legal practice Norton Rose Group is advising The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) on the sale of its retail banking and wealth management business in Thailand to Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited (BAY).

Davis Polk advised CITIC Securities Corporate Finance (HK) Limited (CITIC) on the $473.2 million rights offering of China Communications Services Corporation Limited. The rights offering consisted of a public offering of H shares (shares listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) and a public offering of domestic shares (unlisted shares) in the PRC. CITIC was the sole bookrunner and underwriter of the rights offering.

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised the joint sponsors on the spin-off and listing by way of introduction of Swire Properties Limited on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today the continued expansion of its Hong Kong Corporate practice with the addition of Carolyn Sng, who joins the Firm as a partner. Ms. Sng’s practice is primarily focused on complex capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, corporate finance and private equity transactions. She specializes in high-profile global offerings and debt capital markets transactions. Ms. Sng joins Fried Frank from Herbert Smith, where she was a partner.

Davis Polk advised BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore Branch, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Daewoo Securities Co., Ltd. and U.S. Bancorp Investments, Ltd. as underwriters in connection with concurrent SEC-registered Schedule B debt offerings by KEXIM of $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of its 4% notes due 2017 and $1 billion aggregate principal amount of its 5% notes due 2022.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance advised Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited and Standard Chartered Bank as joint lead managers and joint bookrunners on the Agricultural Development Bank of China’s (ADBC) offering of RMB3 billion bonds in Hong Kong. The offering was successfully priced on 10 January 2012, and the bonds are expected to be issued on 17 January 2012. The bonds to be issued are targeted at institutional investors, with terms of two, three and five years and coupon rates of 3.00%, 3.20% and 3.50%, respectively. This deal was the first RMB bond issuance in 2012 and ADBC’s first offshore bond issuance.

Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented Shuanghui International Holdings Limited (“Shuanghui International”) and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Shuanghui Group”), including Henan Shuanghui Investment Development Co. Ltd. (“Shuanghui Investment”) which is an A-share company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, in one of the largest public company merger and acquisition transactions in China. The Shuanghui Group is a large-scale food processing company in China whose major shareholders include CDH Investments, Goldman Sachs, Temasek (the Singapore government’s investment firm) and New Horizon (a leading China-focused private equity fund).

O’Melveny & Myers represented China Polymetallic Mining Limited (HKSE:2133) in its HK$1.46 billion (US$187 million) initial public offering on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.