Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Zhong Lun Law Firm have advised China’s Everest Medicines on its $451 million IPO in Hong Kong, with Kirkland & Ellis and Tian Yuan Law Firm advising the joint sponsors and underwriters.

Everest Medicines, a China-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company created by C-Bridge Capital in July 2017, develops, licenses and commercialises potentially novel transformative therapies to address critical unmet medical needs in Greater China and other emerging Asia Pacific markets.

It is the second Chinese biopharmaceutical company to go public in Hong Kong this month, after JHBP (CY) Holdings.

 

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