Baker & McKenzie’s M&A team recently advised McCormick & Company, Incorporated (“McCormick”), a global leader in flavor, on its agreement to purchase 100% of the assets of Wuhan Asia-Pacific Condiments Co., Ltd. (“WAPC”), a privately held company based in China, for approximately RMB900 million (US$147 million).

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Liza Mark, a veteran lawyer of more than 14 years, has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP and will serve as the administrative partner in its recently announced Shanghai office.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented The Carlyle Group, a U.S.-based private equity firm, in its US$267 million acquisition of an office building in Shanghai called Central Plaza, from Singapore-listed real estate fund Forterra Trust.

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Winston & Strawn LLP has announced that Matthew Durham will join the firm’s Shanghai office as a partner in its labor and employment practice. Mr. Durham was formerly a partner with Clyde & Co. where he was head of the employment team for mainland China and Hong Kong. The arrival of Mr. Durham expands Winston & Strawn’s labor and employment practice and is in line with the firm’s continued commitment to growth in Asia.

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Law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today its plans to formally open an office in Shanghai during the summer of 2013. Seyfarth has seen an ever increasing demand for assistance in China from its multinational clients, particularly in its employment law and corporate departments. Responding to those demands, the opening of the Shanghai office represents the firm’s first move into Asia.

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented leading international genomics organization BGI-Shenzhen (BGI) in its acquisition via all cash tender offer, followed by a short form merger, of Nasdaq listed Complete Genomics (Complete). The deal closed on March 18, 2013. It has been reported as the first time a Chinese company has successfully acquired a US public company.

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Tony K. Mou has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the Corporate practice group and will be based in the firm’s Shanghai office. Mou joins from Morgan Lewis in Beijing.

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Benesch is pleased to announce that Richard Grams has joined Benesch as Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s Shanghai office. He will be practicing in the firm’s Corporate & Securities Practice Group and will serve as Co-Chair of the China Practice.

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The Shanghai office of global law firm Eversheds has appointed a team of four employment lawyers from Salans LLP. The team is led by Dr. Iris Duchetsmann, formerly Of Counsel and head of the China labour law team in Salans’ Shanghai office, who joins Eversheds as a partner.

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Covington & Burling has launched its Shanghai office, its third in Asia, following the opening of offices in Beijing in 2008 and Seoul in late 2012.

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