JP Morgan news

Targeting growth overseas has helped boost US firms' turnover during a difficult economic period. Deciding how best to tackle Hong Kong remains open for debate. Stephen Mulrenan re

Described as an English badge, the select few UK firms considered part of the so-called ‘magic circle’, have the found that the term isn’t quite the stamp of approval in Hong Kong as it is in London. Stephen Mulrenan finds out why.

By defying the worldwide destruction of private wealth, Asia's super-rich are flying in the face of a global trend. Jeremy Torr reports.

Latham & Watkins represented the trustee borrower, JP Morgan Chase, in connection with the US$200 million financing, described below in Pertamina's press release.

Whether alleviating concerns of professional negligence or simply making the working day less taxing, technical innovations continue. Simon Hyett reviews what is out there.

The Australian Government's US$3.2bn (A$5.58bn) divestment of the Kingsford Smith Airport (Sydney Airport) to the Southern Cross Airports consortium was the largest announced transaction in 2002

M&As  in 2003 have shown some resilience from the downward trend witnessed last year. But, argue practitioners, a return to the boom times is still some way off. Stephen Mulrenan reports

Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC), a subsidiary of Malaysias national oil corporation Petroliam Nasional, has acquired oil transportation company American Eagle Tankers (AET) from Singapore shipping company Neptune Orient Lines (NOL).

All the Singapore and Jakarta-based foreign lawyers with whom ALB spoke seem to do basically the same work: complex, big-money, cross-border deals for their multinational clients.

Firms engaged in energy and resources work are facing both challenges and fine prospects. Here is the sector lowdown

Australian Legal Business takes a look at the top deals of 2003 - and the lawyers who helped to make them happen

Landmark mortgage-backed securitisations have closed in Taiwan and Singapore, as the region continues to embrace the financing technique.

Allen & Overy and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have been kept busy of late acting on a series of 'firsts' in Bangkok.

Simmons & Simmons is advising China Telecom Corporation Limited on its proposed US$8.2bn (RMB67.8bn) acquisition of 10 provincial telecommunications networks from its parent, China Telecommunications Group.

The Singapore office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has advised on the financing for the largest leveraged buyout in Singapore to date.

China continues to be the most popular investment destination in the Asia-Pacific, attracting nearly one third of private equity investment into the region, according to Thomson Financial.

Jones Day and P&A Law Offices have acted on Tata Consultancy Services' US$1.2bn initial public offering, propelling India's largest IT services company into one of the country's Top Five companies overall in terms of market capitalisation.

Baker & McKenzie has advised Sino Land Company Limited, a subsidiary of Tsim Sha Tsui Properties Limited, on its HK$2bn (US$257m) convertible bond issue, due 30 November 2009.

Two recently closed Singapore-listed bond issues mark a dramatic change in the international debt market out of China, according to Herbert Smith.