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Firm Represents Morgan Stanley in US$216 Million Nasdaq IPO of CNinsure

11.19.07

The Firm represented Morgan Stanley, as representative of the other underwriters, in connection with the initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market of CNinsure Inc. (“CNinsure”), a leading insurance agency and brokerage operating in China. The offering of 13,526,773 American depositary shares, representing 270,535,460 ordinary shares, including the full exercise of the over-allotment option, by CNinsure and certain selling shareholders raised an aggregate US$216.4 million.

The Simpson Thacher team for the transaction included Leiming Chen, Daniel Fertig, Blake Dunlap and Stuart Orsak (Hong Kong – Corporate), Wei Cui and Jason Vollbracht (Tax), Mark Lab and Sean Cotton (FINRA and Blue Sky).