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By King & Wood Mallesons

20 May 2017, King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) was ranked as a Tier 1 law firm in both Patent and Trademark/Copyright in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) 2017 IP Rankings for the third consecutive year. Taking account of factors including volume, complexity and size of work undertaken, clients, team, and the firm’s year-on-year development and growth momentum, ALB concluded the final rankings in the two categories of patent and trademark/copyright. KWM’s IP team strengthens its leading position in both contentious and non-contentious by this ranking, with outstanding and first-class expertise and reputation among clients.
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By King & Wood Mallesons

2 May 2017, acting as counsel for All-Stars Investment, King & Wood Mallesons (“KWM”) facilitated the series B round of financing for Logistics QQ Truck Alliance (“Truck Alliance”), raising more than US$270 million of new capital. This is the largest round of funding thus far amongst online long-haul logistics platform start-ups in China. International Finance Corp (“IFC”) and All-Stars Investment Ltd co-led the financing, and several new heavyweight institutions and existing investors also jumped on the bandwagon to invest new cash. Truck Alliance’s valuation now exceeds US$ 1 billion and joins the ranks of “unicorn” companies in China.  
Continue Reading King & Wood Mallesons represents All-Stars Investment in Logistics QQ Truck Alliance’s US$ 270 million Round B financing, minting another unicorn

By King & Wood Mallesons

The Managing Intellectual Property (MIP), one of the most authoritative media in the world’s intellectual property (IP) sector, recently announced its 2017 patent and trademark firm rankings, in which, King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) was consecutively recognized as a Tier 1 firm in patent prosecution, patent contentious, trade mark prosecution and trade mark contentious in China based on the firm’s comprehensive leading strength in such areas. This result makes KWM again the only Chinese firm ranked as Tier 1 in the four categories since 2016.
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By King & Wood Mallesons

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has advised  Xinhu (BVI) Holding Company Limited as its US and PRC counsel on its US$700 million 6.00% guaranteed senior notes issuance due 2020, which is guaranteed by Xinhu Zhongbao Co., Ltd (Xinhu Zhongbao). The transaction marks the largest initial issuance of a high yield bond by a PRC company since January 2013, according to the Bloomberg database.
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By King & Wood Mallesons

On March 20th, 2017, Xu Ping, partner at King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), was named one of the Top 10 M&A Lawyers in China for 2017 by Asian Legal Business (ALB) for her exceptional work in cross-border M&A transactions and the high praise and recognition she received from her clients. The list was compiled on the basis of various factors, including the significance of the M&A deals such candidate has advised on (as lead counsel) in the past 12 months, the representative and influential clients for whom such candidate represented, and the accolades and recognitions such candidate has received from the market, etc.
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By King & Wood Mallesons

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) acted for ING Bank on its ground-breaking transaction with a PRC state-owned-enterprise lessor on the refinancing of the lessor’s acquisition and leasing of a wide body aircraft to an Indonesian airline.

This cross-border transaction required English law, PRC law and New York law expertise which…

By King & Wood Mallesons

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) represented the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic to successfully overturn the US$16.5 million UNCITRAL award, with the Paris Court of Appeal recently ruling that Manas Bank had been established to facilitate money laundering.

The Government challenged the arbitral award in the French courts, which was made against the Kyrgyz Republic and in favour of Latvian businessman Valeri Belokon, former majority owner of Manas Bank, who claimed compensation for nationalization of the bank in 2010, as well as resisting enforcement of the award in Ontario.
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On 22 February 2017, Jack Wang, Head of Finance & Capital Markets at King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) won the title of Finance Lawyer of the Year at the fourth annual Asia Legal Awards Ceremony, hosted by The Asian Lawyer in association with China Law & Practice, The American Lawyer and Legal Week. Advised the joint lead managers by KWM, Geely’s $400M green bond, the Chinese auto industry’s first ever offshore green bonds issuance, was also named the Securities Deal of the Year: Debt, at the ceremony. As one of Asia’s most renowned ceremony for the legal elite, the Asia Legal Awards honor the best work in the region. Across its coverage of practice areas and disciplines, the Awards intend to identify the biggest and most important commercial legal matters that involved lawyers and law firms in Asia.
Continue Reading King & Wood Mallesons’ Partner Jack Wang wins Finance Lawyer of the Year by at Asia Legal Awards

作者：金杜律师事务所 King & Wood Mallesons

金杜伦敦、迪拜、上海三地办公室通力合作，在一起由英国JKX Oil & Gas Plc公司提出的高达2.7亿美元的油气税收仲裁纠纷中代理乌克兰政府赢得大胜，仲裁庭最终裁决乌克兰政府仅向JKX Oil & Gas Plc支付1180万美元的“附属索赔”。

The KWM team drew lawyers from across its London, Dubai and Shanghai offices to score a major victory for Ukraine in a US $270 million investment arbitration case brought by JKX Oil & Gas Plc relating to oil and gas taxation. The Tribunal ordered Ukraine to pay JKX just US $11.8 million in relation to what JKX described as its “subsidiary claims”.
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By King & Wood Mallesons

20 December 2016, King & Wood Mallesons partner Ms. He Wei was selected as one of the 2016 Asian Legal Business (ALB) China Top 15 IP Lawyers for her outstanding practice capability and extensive client recognition. The award recipients are selected on the basis of their career highlights, recent achievements, client wins, client recommendations, apart from market feedback. The rankings showcase 15 outstanding intellectual property lawyers in the country who demonstrate excellent skills in the practice of their craft.
Continue Reading King & Wood Mallesons partner He Wei selected as one of the 2016 ALB China Top 15 IP Lawyers