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• Shearman, Linklaters win lead roles on African mining IPO

  Feb 21 2010 Canada's Barrick Gold Corporation, the world's largest producer of gold, will spin off its African division into a separate public company. The new company, African... more

• Clifford Chance, Latham bag lead roles on Singapore airline IPO

  Jan 25 2010 Clifford Chance and Latham & Watkins have taken lead roles as Tiger Airways becomes the first Asian airline to complete an initial public offering in the past five... more

• New Facebook share structure hints at IPO

  Nov 26 2009 Facebook is implementing a new stock structure to make sure the founders retain control, immediately causing rumors about an impending initial public offering (IPO). ... more

• Freshfields and Linklaters lead on £250m Gartmore listing

  Nov 26 2009 Gartmore Group Ltd., the manager of about 21.8 billion pounds ($36 billion) in hedge and mutual funds, is preparing an initial public offering (IPO) of at least 250... more

• Shearman and Davis Polk advise on $8bn Brazilian IPO

  Oct 08 2009 Shearman & Sterling's partners Andrew Jánszky, Robert Evans and Robert Ellison have advised the underwriters on Brazil’s biggest IPO to date - the $8bn listing of... more

• Latham, Fried Frank and PRC firms act on China Lilang IPO

  Sep 30 2009 Menswear company China Lilang launched an IPO that made it the first Chinese menswear company to list in Hong Kong. China Lilang turned to Latham & Watkins for... more

• Slaughter & May, Freshfields take roles on Hong Kong IPOs

  Sep 19 2009 Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Shearman & Sterling are among a number of international law firms leading on the initial public offerings in Hong... more

• Indian law firms profit from privatization push

  Aug 26 2009 Indian law firms feel the benefits of a privatization push by the Indian national government on the back of rebounding capital markets. India’s second-largest firm... more

• Orrick advises on second-largest Hong Kong IPO this year

  Jul 02 2009 The China practice of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has led on the HK$1.8 billion (US$233 million) listing of Chinese sportswear company 361 Degrees International on... more

• Chinese companies eyeing Wall Street generate opportunities for US law firms

  Aug 19 2008 As Chinese public companies migrate to the major IS stock exchanges from smaller trading venues, they're seeking increasingly sophisticated legal counsel and... more

• Simpson, Weil, Linklaters, Cravath on KKR’s landmark dual listing

  Jul 30 2008 The world’s elite firms are jostling for position on Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s (KKR) landmark dual listing in Amsterdam and New York. A team from Simpson Thacher &... more

• Freshfields advises Deutsche Bahn on IPO

  May 02 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising state-owned Deutsche Bahn, the leading railway and logistics company in Germany, on the initial public offering (IPO) of its... more

• Taylor Wessing Bags China IPO First

  Mar 28 2008 Taylor Wessing’s Paris office has picked up the main role on China Corn Oil’s listing on the NYSE Euronext’s Alternext market; the first Chinese company to ever float... more

• Davis Polk and White & Case advise on blockbuster Visa IPO

  Mar 03 2008 Davis Polk & Wardwell and White & Case have landed plum roles on the $19bn Visa IPO, the largest ever in US history. Davis Polk head of capital markets Richard Sandler... more