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Harneys has retained its Tier 2 ranking in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021 rankings.

Harneys acted as BVI counsel to Equatorial Palm Oil plc (EPO), renamed as Capital Metals plc (AIM: CMET) on its £15.84 million acquisition of Capital Metals Limited (CML) by way of a reverse takeover under AIM Rule 14. The acquisition was financed through a combination of an oversubscribed placing, management subscriptions and the issue by EPO of up to 132,000,000 new ordinary shares as consideration to the CML shareholders for all the issued shares in CML. The acquisition was approved by the EPO shareholders on 11 January 2020.

Harneys is delighted to announce that Vicky Lord, Shanghai Managing Partner, and Ian Mann, Asia Managing Partner, have been recognised by China Business Law Journal in their prestigious A-List 2020 as two of China’s Elite 100 Lawyers (Foreign firm).

Harneys is pleased to announce that Henry Mander is the new global practice head of Trusts and Private Client, British Virgin Island Litigation team members John McCarroll and Chris Pease have been promoted to partner, and there are seven additional promotions to counsel.

Harneys acted as Cayman Islands counsel to Netjoy Holdings Limited and Raily Aesthetic Medicine International Holdings Limited on their respective listings on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, raising combined net proceeds of approximately US$175 million. The two IPOs were followed by the spin-off and separate listing of C&D Property Management Group Co., Ltd on 31 December with Harneys acting as British Virgin Islands counsel. In 2020, the Harneys Transactional team in Asia have advised on more than 10 IPOs with a combined value of over US$3.5 billion.

Harneys acted as issuers BVI counsel to Wunong Net Technology Co Ltd. in connection with its initial public offering of 5,000,000 of its ordinary shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market.