Paul Hastings Represents Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners in Chinalco Minings Hong Kong IPO

January 31, 2013

Hong Kong

(January 31, 2013) - Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented Morgan Stanley and BNP Paribas as the joint global coordinators, together with CICC, Standard Chartered, CCBI and HSBC as the joint bookrunners in Chinalco Mining Corporation Internationals (Chinalco Mining) US$398 million Hong Kong IPO and global offering on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Subject to the joint global coordinators exercising the over-allotment option, the deal size may be increased to up to approximately US$458 million.

Chinalco Mining is a unit of state-owned Aluminum Corporation of China and the owner of the Toromocho greenfield copper deposit in Peru. The Toromocho project is the worlds second-largest pre-production copper project as measured by proved and probable copper ore reserves.

The Paul Hastings team was led by Raymond Li, partner and Chair of Greater China, and partners Sammy Li, David Grimm and Zhaoyu Ren, with support from of counsel Nan Li, and associates Dane Johansen and Jason Wang.

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