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The article informs that Clifford Chance and Baker McKenzie are financial advisor of Saudi shopping mall company Arabian Centres Company, as it seeks to raise $1.2bn in what would be the Kingdom’s largest IPO in five years.

The article reports on the plan of law firm Gateley to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in Great Britain to attract investors. It says that Gately will use financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald Europe as its nominated advisor and broker for the IPO, which will be traded as Gateley (Holdings) PLC. Gateley chief executive officer (CEO) Michael Ward notes that they wanted to be the first firm to benefit on the growth opportunities of an IPO.

The article reports that law firms Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advise infrastructure investorJohn Laing Group in preparing for is initial public offering (IPO) and list on the London Stock Exchange. It mentions that Freshfields advised John Laing on the IPO, while Clifford Chance is acting for the underwriters HSBC Holdings PLC and Barclays PLC.

The article reports that law firm Squire Patton Boggs and Italian firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo served as advisor to the 280 million initial public offering (IPO) of Italian transmission tower operator Rai Way on the Italian stock exchange in November 2014. It discusses several people involved in the IPO including corporate partner Massimo Galli, who led Squire to represent Rai Way, Barbara Napolitano, who led Bonelli, and Rai legal director Salvatore Lo Giudice, who managed the deal.

The author discusses aspects of Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma's criticism on Western financial advisors and lawyers in the online marketplace company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s acquisition of the technology company Yahoo! China. He is critical on Ma's comments that these advisors and lawyers unnecessarily complicate simple merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. He also emphasizes that the company's initial public offering (IPO) in 2014 show the significant role of lawyers in these deals.

The article offers information on the financial advisers of China Machinery Engineering Corp. (CMEC) in Hong Kong, China. It mentions that the initial public offering (IPO) of 3.9 billion pounds. It mentions that the People's Insurance Co. of China (PICC) invested in CMEC's IPO. It mentions that Jiayauan has large number of Hong Kong IPOs.

Reports that law firm Lovells has advised new client Asian Citrus Holdings on the firm's initial public offering in China in 2005.

The article reports that Clifford Chance LLP and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are celebrating after scooping the lead roles on the flotation of initial public offerings worth one billion pound by Inmarsat Ltd. Clifford Chance, led by partners Matthew Layton and Adrian Cartwright, scored the mandate after advising some private equity houses on their $1.5 billion acquisition of Inmarsat in 2003. Freshfields advised the company on that transaction.