By Raymond Wong King & Wood Mallesons’ Hong Kong Office.
T
he Hong Kong Competition Ordinance (Cap. 619) (the “Ordinance”) will be fully implemented on 14 December 2015 in Hong Kong. Like competition laws in other jurisdictions, the Ordinance aims to protect and promote fair market competition by prohibiting certain conduct that prevents, restricts or distorts competition in Hong Kong.
Download PDF, please click here.
By King & Wood Mallesons
King & Wood Mallesons has advised Huaneng Power International, Inc. (Huaneng Power, A-shares Stock Code: 600011, H-shares Stock Code: 0902) on its successful placement of 780 million new H-shares to ten shareholders under the general mandate. With a placement price of HK$7.32 per share, Huaneng Power raised approximately HK$5.71 billion (net amount is around HK$5,690 million). It is the largest new share placement in the Hong Kong capital markets since the market adjustments in July 2015.
Huaneng Power is one of the largest power generation companies in China. As a company listed on the New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai Stock Exchanges, Huaneng Power has performed strongly across multiple capital markets. It has been listed in the Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings for six consecutive years.
KWM acted as counsel for the issuer in the project and provided legal advice to all aspects of the H-share placement. The KWM legal team was led by partners Zhou Ning and Yang Xiaolei, who were supported by their fellow partner Tang Lizi.
作者：金杜律师事务所
金杜律师事务所协助华能国际电力股份有限公司（简称“华能国际”，A股代码600011，H股代码0902）根据一般授权向十名承配人成功配发及发行共计7.8亿股新H股，配售价为每股7.32港元，配售所得款项总额约为57.1亿港元（其净额约为56.9亿港元）。本次配售是自2015年7月市场大幅调整以来，香港资本市场规模最大的新股配售项目。
华能国际是目前国内规模最大的发电公司之一。作为三地上市公司，华能国际在资本市场表现优异，已连续六年入选“普氏全球能源上市公司250强”排行榜。
在该项目中，金杜担任华能国际的发行人律师，全程参与本次H股配售。金杜负责该项目的合伙人为周宁律师及杨小蕾律师，合伙人唐丽子律师亦给予大力支持。
By Lucy Lu and Luo Jun King & Wood Mallesons’ Commercial & Regulatory Group
E
lected by shareholders, the Board of Directors (hereinafter referred to as the “Board”) acts as the decision-making organ outside a company, and takes charge of inner affairs within a company, thus carrying significant influence in the field of commercial law; nevertheless, conflicts between the Labor Law and the Company Law are likely to occur in cases where the Board is involved in employment issues of senior managerial staff, resulting in possible practice of going around the Company Law on the premise of the Labor Law and overturning decisions made by the Board. Therefore, companies need to keep an eye on and differentiate cross-jurisdiction laws in the spirit to avoid legal conflict. The following is a labor dispute case reviewed by the Second Middle People’s Court of Shanghai concerning termination of contract of a senior executive in September, 2015. Since this case is of quotable significance to defusing conflict between the Company Law and the Labor Contract Law as well as the identification of reemployment matters in the case mentioned above, we extend the following discussion.
Read full article, please click here.
作者：陆慧文 罗钧 金杜律师事务所商务合规部
董
事会由股东选举，对外代表公司经营决策机构、对内掌管公司内部事务，故董事会的决议作为公司治理的一部分，在商法领域具有重要影响；但是，当董事会涉及到公司经理等高管人员的雇佣问题时，容易造成劳动法和公司法的直接冲突，可能形成以《劳动合同法》的规定而绕开《公司法》去推翻董事会决议的情形。因此，对于上述调整不同社会关系领域的法律规范，用人单位应给予高度重视，理清法理层次和司法实践认定，以避免相关争议的发生。以下是2015年9月上海二中院审理的一起关于高管解雇的劳动争议案例，此案对于《公司法》中的董事会决议与《劳动合同法》的冲突问题和高管解雇争议案件当中恢复劳动关系的认定问题具有一定的借鉴意义，故在此展开讨论。
全文阅读，请点击此处。
By Lin Jiuchu, Xiao Yuexin and Kang Lifang King & Wood Mallesons’ IP Group
“A
RC’TERYX”and “
” (hereinafter “the Cited Marks”), created and used by ARC’TERYX Company, have enjoyed a high reputation in respect of outdoor clothing, technical outerwear and accessories. The inspiration of the brands was originated from “Archaeopteryx”. “ARC’TERYX”is the unconventional abbreviation of “Archaeopteryx” and “
”is the most complete and famous archaeopteryx graphics found by archaeologists so far.
Read full article, please click here.
作者：何放 金杜律师事务所争议解决部
U
DRP即《统一域名争议解决政策》（以下称“UDRP”）,它是1999年10月由互联网络名称及编码公司（以下称“ICANN”）建立的一种诉讼制度之外的域名争议解决制度（以下称“UDRP”)，ICANN随后为了规范程序性事项而制定了《统一域名争议解决政策之规则》（以下称“UDRP规则”）。在UDRP出台之前，世界知识产权组织进行了大量的调研和协调工作。UDRP实质上由中立的第三方就国际通用顶级域名注册与传统知识产权冲突作出裁决的一种高效、快速并且廉价的非诉讼解决机制，以UDRP为基础建立起来的域名争议解决机制，仅适用于ICANN负责管理的通用顶级域名如.aero、.asia、.biz、.cat、.com、.coop、.info、.jobs、.mobi、.museum、.name、.net、.org、.pro、.tel以及.travel等，自从UDRP制度建立以来，通过UDRP解决的域名争议已经超过三万余件 。
全文阅读，请点击此处。
作者：金杜律师事务所
2015年11月20日，达利食品集团有限公司（简称“达利集团”）在金杜律师事务所专业团队的协助下，成功登陆香港联交所实现主板上市，股票代码为3799。达利集团通过此次发行上市在全球共发售16.9亿股，每股发售价5.25港元，募集资金净额达86.46亿港元（约合71.22亿元人民币）。本项目堪称2015年目前为止全球消费品领域最大的上市项目，上市首日达利集团市值达到684.71亿港元，创下2015年内地民营企业港股IPO之最。
达利集团是位列中国民营企业500强的中国食品行业巨头，在休闲食品及饮料两大支柱产业中拥有“达利园”、“好吃点”、“可比克”、“和其正”、“乐虎”等诸多消费者耳熟能详的子品牌。达利集团也成为近八年以来福建最大的上市IPO企业。
在本项目中，金杜担任达利集团的保荐人中国律师。项目负责合伙人为王立新律师及肖兰律师，内核合伙人马天宁律师亦给予该项目大力支持和指导。
”商标（下称“引证商标”）是ARC’TERYX公司在先独创、使用、并在户外服装及装备领域具有较高知名度的商标。该品牌灵感来源于始祖鸟（英文为：Archaeopteryx），其英文是对始祖鸟英文的非常规缩写，图形为考古学上发现的迄今最完整的知名始祖鸟化石图形。