China Law & Practice can now reveal the official list of Finalists for the 2010 China Law & Practice Awards, which will be held at the JW Marriott in Beijing on September 16.
The prestigious fourth annual awards ceremony, hosted by China’s most trusted legal resource, will showcase how innovative, high-quality legal advice has driven many of the region’s most complex transactions, cases and disputes.
Following a thawing in equity markets in 2009, issuers and financial advisers have been kept frantically busy in 2010. In a similar vein, data released in March of this year by Thomson Reuters showed that announced M&A activity had risen 18% worldwide from the first quarter of 2009.
One explanation for this is the growing number of energy-focused takeovers in emerging markets, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) noting that China’s demand for oil had jumped by 28% in January compared with the same...
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