Clifford Chance has advised Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG on the capital increase of SURTECO SE. This transaction with a total issue volume of about EUR 80 million includes a capital increase against cash with indirect subscription rights, a pre-placement of subscription rights assigned to Berenberg and, possibly, a rump placement of unsubscribed new shares. The subscription offer will presumably end on 14 November 2013.

The Firm represented Hyundai Rotem Company (“Hyundai Rotem”) in connection with its initial public offering in Korea of 27,060,000 common shares with an offering size of approximately US$585 million.  This offering was the largest IPO by a Korean company since 2010.

Shearman & Sterling acted as US counsel to NanoCarrier Co., Ltd., as issuer in the sale of 30,600 newly issued shares of its common stock, and Whiz Partners Inc., as selling shareholder in its sale of 8,400 existing shares, in a $107.6 million international offering as part of a global offering of 42,000 shares of common stock pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.

National law firm DWF has advised investment bank Numis Securities Limited (‘Numis Securities’), the nominated adviser and broker to In-Deed Online plc (‘In-Deed’), on the acquisition by In-Deed of leading international e-learning business Epic Group Limited (‘Epic’) and the admission of the group to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.  The acquisition constituted a reverse takeover for In-Deed.

Hong Kong/Shanghai: Clifford Chance has advised BOC International, CITIC Securities, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and UBS, as joint global coordinators of Huishang Bank Corp.'s (Huishang Bank) US$1.19 billion (approximately HKD9.21 billion) listing on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.

Huishang Bank, a regional bank based in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui, sold a total of 2.61 billion H-shares and priced its shares at HKD3.53 each. The Chinese bank started trading in Hong Kong on Tuesday, 12 November 2013.

Herbert Smith Freehills is advising McAleese Group in relation to its initial public offering of AU$166 million and listing on the Australian Securities Exchange. The Offer consists of an institutional offer and broker firm offer.

Slaughter and May advised China Power New Energy Development Company (CPNE) on its issue of new shares to China Energy Engineering Group Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute (GEPDI).

Under a new share agreement, CPNE will issue new shares to GEPDI for RMB200 million (US$33 million), giving GEPDI a 2.87% share in the enlarged issued share capital of CPNE.

Linklaters has advised the underwriters Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Halk Yatirim on Emlak Konut's $1.6 billion secondary public offering, which has announced today.  This is not only the largest share offering in Turkey in 2013, it is also the largest primary offering of shares across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa region this year.  It is also the largest share offering in the real estate sector in Europe in more than five years.

Latham & Watkins advised Sembcorp Salalah Power & Water Company SAOG in connection with its initial public offering (IPO), which was 8.3 times oversubscribed and raised OMR 53 million (approximately US$137 million), making it the largest IPO in Oman this year as well as one of the largest in the Middle East region. Following the IPO, the shares of Sembcorp Salalah were admitted to trading on the Muscat Securities Market.

HSBC Bank Oman SAOG acted as Issue Manager for the offering. HSBC Bank Middle East Limited acted as Sole Global Coordinator and Bookrunner.

Linklaters provided the SHW Holding L.P. with legal advice regarding the private placement of approx. 3,4 million shares belonging to the SHW AG. The shares which were equivalent to the complete shareholdings belonging to the SHW Holding L.P. to the amount of 58,3% of the share capital of the SHG AG, were placed each at 39 Euro towards institutional investors. The revenue amounted to approx. 136 million Euro. The placement was conducted by the Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank as Joint Bookrunners using an accelerated Bookbuilding Procedure.