China Awards and Recognition

Our China Team lawyers are recognized as the pioneers who paved the way for local and multinational companies to participate in the commercial and financial markets involving China. With more than three decades of experience as members of the firm that opened the first offices of a foreign law firm in Hong Kong and China, our China Team lawyers are considered to be the founders, creators and counselors of precedent-setting developments in business, finance and law in China. Their leading reputation continues with the receipt of the following recent awards and recognition.

• Asia-Pacific "Fast 30" Award
  Orrick's Asia-Pacific presence was recognized in the Asian Legal Business 2006 Fast 30 awards as "one of the Asia-Pacific region's fastest growing and most dynamic law firms."  "Orrick took the spotlight at the end of last year when it secured the transition of the Hong Kong and Shanghai offices, as well as the majority of the Beijing office, of Coudert Brothers… the transition of the three offices… marked an unprecedented three-pronged entry into the China market..."

• M&A Deal of the Year
  Our China Team lawyers advised Corporación IMPSA S.A. and Industrias Metalúrgicas Pescarmona S.A. in the restructuring, acquisition and divestiture of the Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan Power Complex in Laguna, Philippines. This project was selected by Asian-Counsel as an "M&A Deal of the Year" in 2006 and was described in the International Financial Law Review as "a remarkable case study in divestiture strategy."
• Real Estate and Construction Deal of the Year
  Our China Team lawyers advised Credit Suisse on the offshore security for its guaranteed US$100 million financing of the Shanghai Square Project, a 38-storey 80,000-square-meter office and retail project in Shanghai. This project received the "Real Estate and Construction Deal of the Year" award in 2006 from Asian Legal Business, which recognized the advanced level of legal services required to complete financings that were structured as dual-currency onshore and offshore loans involving a complex series of offshore security arrangements that crossed four jurisdictions.
• Asia Deal of the Year Finalist
  Our China Team lawyers served as Hong Kong and U.S. counsel to Sinopec Beijing Yanhua Petrochemical Company Limited in its US$500 million privatization transaction by China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, which the International Financial Law Review selected as a finalist for "Asia Deals of the Year" in 2006. The transaction "stood out for the level of legal complexity and innovation," and it "pioneered a new way for PRC companies to privatize overseas listed companies." The transaction involved the first case of delisting of H shares from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and American Depository Receipts from the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction was also selected as a finalist for the 2006 "M&A Deal of the Year" by Asian Legal Business.
• Logistics Deal of the Year
  Our China Team lawyers structured and completed the RMB1.7 billion (US$200 million) dual-currency, six-tranche project financing for Royal Vopak's liquefied chemical and oil products storage and logistics facility in Shanghai. This project received the 2005 "Logistics Deal of the Year" award from Euromoney and is the central feature of the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park, which is planned to be one of the largest and most integrated chemical and petrochemical production and logistics bases in Asia.
• Best Law Firm for Mid-Size IPOs
  New Fortune recognized our China Team lawyers as the "Best Law Firm for Mid-Size IPOs" in 2004 and described the lawyers' "IPO legal consultation services" as "remarkable." New Fortune highlighted three of our Hong Kong IPOs— Weiqiao Textile Company (HK$2.44 billion), Wumart Stores, Inc. (HK$549 million, the largest IPO on the GEM Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2003) and Lianhua Supermarket Holdings Company Limited (HK$668 million).

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