Davis Polk advised Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore Branch as the dealer manager in connection with a tender offer and consent solicitation by Winsway Coking Coal Holdings Limited for all of its US$460.5 million outstanding 8% senior notes due 2016.

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Davis Polk is advising Wumart Stores, Inc in connection with its proposed acquisition of a minority interest and assets of C.P. Lotus and proposed issue of shares to C.P. Lotus (the Transactions). The parties signed a framework agreement on October 15, 2013 that contains binding obligations on both parties to negotiate in good faith to enter into definitive documentation in respect of the Transactions. In addition, Wumart and an affiliate of Ascendant Capital Partners I, L.P. entered into a framework agreement in relation to the subscription by Ascendant Capital of H shares in Wumart.

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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised China Merchants Bank on its 680,423,172 H-rights shares issuance which raised approximately US$1 billion in Hong Kong. The bank’s latest H-rights  offering follows its  Shanghai Stock Exchange listing of 2,962,813,544 A-rights shares in September, which raised approximately US$4.5 billion.

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DLA Piper has appointed Horace Lam as partner to its Intellectual Property & Technology Group in Beijing. Horace will also fulfil the role of Head of Intellectual Property, China and brings with him a team of four lawyers. Horace and his team will join DLA Piper in October.

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The Firm represented the underwriters of the initial public offering in Hong Kong and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by China Huishan Dairy Holdings Company Limited  (Huishan Dairy). Huishan Dairy offered an aggregate of 3,787,596,000 ordinary shares, which raised approximately HK$10.1 Billion (US$1.3 billion) in gross proceeds for Huishan Dairy and the selling shareholders.

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Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced today that it is expanding in China and has opened an office in Beijing. The Beijing office is located in China World Office 2 in the heart of Beijing’s Central Business District. As a key component of the Firm’s Greater China practice, the office will focus on complex M&A and private equity transactions, international capital markets transactions, fund formation and government enforcement and investigations.

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Global law firm Proskauer announced today that Yong Ren has joined the firm’s global Private Investment Funds group as a partner, resident in the Beijing office. Mr. Ren’s extensive private equity fund formation experience, representing both general and limited partners throughout Asia, will further expand the reach of Proskauer’s preeminent private investment funds practice and presence in Asia.

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Vinson & Elkins advised China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec Corp.) in its joint venture with SIBUR, a leading Russian gas processing and petrochemicals company, in the development of the Krasnoyarsk Synthetic Rubber Plant (KZSK). Sinopec purchased 25 percent + 1 share of KZSK.

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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, represented Hanergy Holding Group Limited, China’s largest private renewable energy company, on its US acquisition of Global Solar Energy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar technology based in Tucson, Arizona.

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Allen & Overy has advised China Construction Bank (CCB), the second largest bank in the world based on market value, on the set up of its European base in Luxembourg. CCB is the third Chinese bank to establish a base in Luxembourg after Bank of China and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC).

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