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Hong Kong
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | China Education Group’s IPO | HK$3.225 billion (approximately $413 million) | China Education Group | Partners Asia Pacific counsel Associates International legal project manager |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Tencent and TME’s acquisition of minority stakes in Spotify Spotify’s acquisition of minority stakes in TME | Undisclosed | Tencent Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) | Partners Miranda So Howard Zhang
International legal project manager Brian Snyder
Registered foreign lawyer Xi Shi |
Clifford Chance | Kofu International and Concord Greater China’s sale of direct and indirect interest in Sun Art Retail | $2.88 billion | Kofu International and Concord Greater China | Partners Terence Foo Frank Yuen Edith Leung
Senior associates
Trainee Jiangzhou Lan |
Maples and Calder | Wine's Link IPO | HK$90 million (approximately $11.5 million) | Wine's Link | Partner Derrick Kan Associate Sophie Yu |
P. C. Woo & Co | Wine's Link IPO | HK$90 million (approximately $11.5 million) | Wine's Link |
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Sidley Austin | Wine's Link IPO | HK$90 million (approximately $11.5 million) | Innovax Capital |
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Maples and Calder | Shandong Iron and Steel Xinheng’s issuance of guaranteed bonds due 2021 | $200 million | Shandong Iron and Steel Xinheng (British Virgin Islands) | Partner Lorraine Pao |
Maples and Calder | Haitian (BVI) International Investment Development’s issue of guaranteed bonds due 2020 | $400 million | Haitian (BVI) International Investment Development | Partner Lorraine Pao Associate Juno Huang |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Cinda HK’s issuance of guaranteed senior notes | $545 million | China Cinda (HK) Holdings | Partner Paul Chow Counsels Margie Chan Yang Chu Alon Gurfinkel
Associate Veronica Orecharova |
Maples and Calder | Alibaba Group’s underwritten unregistered public offering of senior unsecured notes | $7 billion | Alibaba Group | Partner Richard Spooner Associate Karen Zhang Pallaras |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Orient HuiZhi’s issue of bonds | $500 million | Orient Securities | Partner Paul Chow Counsels Margie Chan Alon Gurfinkel
Associates Bingqing Pan Hei Tung Cheng Omer Harel |
Maples and Calder | Everbright Grand China Assets’ IPO | HK$156 million (approximately $20 million) | Everbright Grand China Assets | Partner Derrick Kan Associate Sophie Yu. |
Bakers McKenzie | Everbright Grand China Assets’ IPO | HK$156 million (approximately $20 million)
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Mayer Brown JSM | Everbright Grand China Assets’ IPO | HK$156 million (approximately $20 million) | China Everbright Capital ABCI Capital |
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King & Wood Mallesons | Thing On Enterprise’s IPO | HK$223 million – before the exercise of over-allotment option (approximately $28.5 million) | Thing On Enterprise | Partners Candy Chan Siu-Ngor Chow
Counsel Ivy Man Associates Owen Ow Jonathan Tsang Jackson Poon Lambert Chan Libby Young |
Ogier | Thing On Enterprise’s IPO | HK$223 million – before the exercise of over-allotment option (approximately $28.5 million) | Thing On Enterprise |
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Mayer Brownb JSM | Thing On Enterprise’s IPO | HK$223 million – before the exercise of over-allotment option (approximately $28.5 million) | KGI Capital Asia Dongxing Securities (Hong Kong) Tongfang Securities Ever-Long Securities Company |
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Latham & Watkins | Bank of Gansu’s IPO | $761 million | Bank of Gansu | Partners Cathy Yeung |
Paul Hastings | Bank of Gansu’s IPO | $761 million | CMB International Capital CCB International Capital Huatai Financial Holdings Guotai Junan Capital BOCI Asia | Partners Raymond Li Zhaoyu Ren Bonnie Yung |
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India
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
AZB & Partners | Reco Diamond’s, an affiliate of GIC, acquisition of stakes in Rajdhani Investments & Agencies, Buland Consultants and Investments, Sidhant Housing and Development | 89 billion rupees ($1.39 billion) | Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) | Partners Sai Krishna Bharathan Rahul Rai
Senior associates Vydyanathan Lakshmanan Ranjit Kumar Rhea Mathew Priyanka Bhat Shivanghi Sukumar Gaurav Bansal |
AZB & Partners | KKR’S acquisition by way of debenturesin Pune Township | 1.93 billion rupees ($30.3 million) | KKR India Asset Finance | Partners Sai Krishna Bharathan Sugandha Asthana
Senior associates Atreya Bhattacharya Amitesh Bhattacharya |
AZB & Partners | Arrow Electronics’ acquisition of Einfochips | In excess of 19 billion rupees (approximately $300 million) | Arrow Electronics | Partners Darshika Kothari Sugandha Asthana
Senior associate Rutunjay Singh Associates Khushboo Sukhwani Kopal Sharraf |
AZB & Partners | Hero’s acquisition of stakes in Corvi Led | 0.63 billion rupees (approximately $10 million) | Hero | Partners Anil Kasturi
Senior associates Siddharth Khanna |
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | Union Bank of India's QIP | 2000 crore rupees (approximately $300 million) | Union Bank of India | Partners Kaushik Mukherjee
Principal associate Narayan Kedia Senior associate Murtaza Zoomkawala Associates Saswat Mohanty Varun Kumar |
Luthra & Luthra | Union Bank of India’s QIP | Approximately $307.7 million | Jefferies India Edelweiss Financial Services ICICI Securities YES Securities | Partner Ravi Dubey Associates Devaditya Chakraborty Soumya Cheedi |
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | Nitin Spinners’ QIP | 107 crore rupees (approximately $16 million) | Nitin Spinners | Partner Kaushik Mukherjee Principal associate Narayan Kedia Senior associate Murtaza Zoomkawala Associate Saswat Mohanty |
AZB & Partners | Premier Travel Inn India’s acquisition of Premier Inn India | Undisclosed – in excess of $15 million | Premier Travel Inn India | Partner Vinati Kastia Associates Anant Dang |
AZB & Partners | Lion Meadow’s acquisition of stakes in Bharti Telemedia | 22.5 billion rupees ($350 million) | Bharti Airtel Bharti Telemedia Bharti Enterprises | Partner Gautam Saha
Senior associate Swati Chauhan |
AZB & Partners | Future Retail’s acquisition of stakes in Hypercity | 6.5 billion rupees ($99.4 million) | Future Retail | Senior partner Ashwath Rau Counsel Prerak Ved Associates Nirmal Mahtani |
AZB & Partners | The Warranty Group’s acquisition of majority stakes in TVS TWG Warranty Solutions | Undisclosed | TVS Automobile Solutions | Partners Srinath Dasari
Associate Malaveeka Chakravarthy |
Majmudar & Partners | Arneg’s acquisition of stakes in Ambience Airconditioning Equipment | 120 million rupees (approximately $1.8 million) | Arneg | Partner Rukshad Davar |
AZB & Partners | Google Asia Pacific’s acquisition of convertible cumulative preference shares in Dunzo Digital | 811 million rupees ($12.5 million) | Google Asia Pacific | Partner Chetan Nagendra Senior associates Malaveeka Chakravarthy |
AZB & Partners | Novartis India’s buyback of equity shares through the tender offer route | 2.3 billion rupees ($35.6 million) | Novartis India | Partners Sai Krishna Bharathan |
AZB & Partners | Edelweiss Financial Services’ QIP | 15.27 billion rupees ($237 million) | CDPQ Private Equity Asia II | Partners Gautam Saha
Senior associate Punita Gupta
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AZB & Partners | DLF Limited’s acquisition of compulsory convertible debentures and warrants on a fuly diluted basis | 112.5 billion rupees ($1.745 billion) | DLF Limited | Partners Ajay Bahl Ravi Prakash Gautam Varma
Associate Divyam Sharma |
AZB & Partners | Abu Dhabi Investment Authority’s acquisition of minority stakes in KKR India Financial Investments | Undisclosed | KKR India Financial Investments | Partners Darshika Kothari
Senior associate Vasudha Asher |
AZB & Partners | Xander Investments’ acquisition of SUN-Apollo Investment Holding Xander Investments’ acquisition of Shriram Properties and Infrastructure | 23 billion rupees ($350 million) | Xander Investments | Senior partner Hardeep Sachdeva Partner Ravi Bhasin Senior associates Anshuman Singh |
AZB & Partners | Nettle Infrastructure Investments’ sale of share capitals | 33.2 billion rupees ($510 million) | Bharti Group | Partners Gautam Saha Dushyant Bagga |
AZB & Partners | Edelweiss Financial Services’ QIP | 15.27 billion rupees ($237 million) | CDPQ Private Equity Asia | Partners Gautam Saha
Senior associate Punita Gupta |
AZB & Partners | CDC’s acquisition of stakes in Utkarsh Micro Finance | 1.5 billion rupees ($23.3 million) | CDC Group | Partners Gautam Saha
Senior associate Punita Gupta |
AZB & Partners | Future Retail’s acquisition of Hypercity Retail India | 6.5 billion rupees ($99.4 million) | Future Retail | Partner Rahul Rai Associates Aditi Gopalakrishnan |
AZB & Partners | OCM Private’s sale of majority shares | Undisclosed | Invesco Legal US / WL Ross & Co | Partners Rajendra Barot
Associates Dhruv Bhuta |
AZB & Partners | Thomas Cook’s sale of shares in Quess Corp | 7.23 billion rupees ($112 million) | Thomas Cook | Senior partner Ashwin Ramanathan Partners Bhavi Sanghvi |
AZB & Partners | Infosys’ acquisition of approximately 20 percent of the aggregate paid-up equity share capital and free reserves through the buyback route. | 130 billion rupees (USD 2.03 billion) | Infosys Limited | Senior Partner Sai Krishna Bharathan
Partners Sugandha Asthana
Senior associate Palaq Vora |
AZB & Partners | Pater Infrastructure’s IPO | 4 billion rupees (approximately $62.5 million) | Book Running Lead Managers:SBI Capital Markets Limited; and IIFL Holdings Limited. | Partners Varoon Chandra
Senior associates Richa Choudhary |
J. Sagar Associates | Southern Health Foods’ sale of shares held by Fulcrum Ventures to Morgan Stanley. | 100 crore rupees (approximately $15 million) | Southern Health Foods Private Limited | Partners Aarthi Sivanandh
Principal associate Bhavana Alexander Senior associate Kunal Kimani |
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas | Southern Health Foods’ sale of shares held by Fulcrum Ventures to Morgan Stanley. | 100 crore rupees (approximately $15 million) | Morgan Stanley PE |
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AZB & Partners | Electronic Payment Solutions’ acquisition of assets and contracts in NCR Corporation | 555.14 million rupees ($8.67 million) | NCR Corporation India | Partner Ashwin Ramanathan Senior associates Puneet Parihar |
AZB & Partners | Eranthus Developer’s acquisition of NV Developers | 2.1 billion rupees (approximately $32.98 million) | Godrej Group | Partners Sai Krishna Bharathan
Senior associate Shivani Kabra |
AZB & Partners | Silverview Investments’ acquisition of shares in Housing Development Finance Corporation | 16 billion rupees (approximately $251.7 million) | KKR & Co. | Partners Darshika Kothari Nilanjana Singh Anand Shah
Senior associate Ishan Handa |
AZB & Partners | Yara Fertilisers India’s acquisition of TCL’s Urea business | 26.8 billion rupees ($418.9 million) | Tata Chemicals (TCL) | Partners Darshika Kothari
Senior associates Shriram Shah
Associate Himanshoo Tembe |
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Japan
FIRM | DEAL | VALUE | CLIENT | LAWYER(S) INVOLVED |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | ORIX’ shelf take down of notes due 2024 | $700 million | ORIX | Partner Counsels Christopher J. Kodama
Associates Mari Foster |
Clifford Chance | VINCI Airports’ project agreement with Kobe City for the 42-year concession of Kobe Airport | Undisclosed | VINCI Airports | Partners Counsel Senior associates Associate |
Clifford Chance | Toshiba’s share placement | $5.4 billion |
| Partners Counsel Senior associates Associates |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Nucleus Acquisition and Brookefield WEC Holdings’ acquisition of Toshiba’s claims against Westinghouse Electric | 244.1 billion yen (approximately $2 billion) | Toshiba | Partners Counsel Associates |
Nishimura & Asahi | Nucleus Acquisition and Brookefield WEC Holdings’ acquisition of Toshiba’s claims against Westinghouse Electric | 244.1 billion yen | Toshiba | Partners |
Malaysia
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Wong & Partners | Ezyhaul raises seed funding to expand its market presence | $2 million | Ezyhaul | Partner Stephanie Phua Senior associate Lydia Kong |
Singapore
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Allen & Gledhill | CITIC Envirotech’s update of multicurrency securities issuance program | $750 million | DBS Bank Barclays Bank Singapore CLSA | Partner Sunit Chhabra |
Allen & Gledhill | CITIC Envirotech’s issuance of senior perpetual securities under its multicurrency debt issuance programme | $240 million | DBS Bank Barclays Bank Singapore CLSA | Partner Sunit Chhabra |
Allen & Gledhill | OUE Treasury’s issuance of notes under multicurrency debt issuance programme | S$200 million (approximately $151.4 million) | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) Standard Chartered Bank | Partners Margaret Chin Sunit Chhabra |
WongPartnership | HNA Holding Group’s acquisition of CWT | Approximately S$1.4 billion (approximately $1 billion) | CWT C & P Holdings Liao family | Managing partner Ng Wai King Partners Andrew Ang Milton Toon Chan Jia Hui |
WongPartnership | Thai Beverage’s acquisition of Myanmar Supply Chain and Marketing Services and Myanmar Distillery | Approximately S$742 million (approximately $560 million) | Thai Beverage Public Company | Partners Annabelle Yip Kevin Ho |
WongPartnership | APAC Realty’s IPO | Approximately S$55 million (approximately $40 million) | DBS Bank | Partners Gail Ong Long Chee Shan |
WongPartnership | Singapore GP’s renewal of the contract agreement with Formula One for the staging of the Singapore Grand Prix | Undisclosed | Singapore GP | Partners Mark Choy |
WongPartnership | Bridge Growth Partners' acquisition of BackOffice Associates | n/a | Bridge Growth Partners | Vivien Yui |
King & Spalding | AES sale of its equity interests in Masinloc power plant to SMC Global Power Holdings | Approximately $2.4 billion | AES Corporation | Partner Simon Cowled John Clay Taylor Senior Associate Ben Williams Associates Christophe L. Vauthier Ji Nin Loh |
Thailand
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
WongPartnership | Thai Beverage’s acquisition of Myanmar Supply Chain and Marketing Services and Myanmar Distillery | Approximately S$742 million (approximately $560 million) | Thai Beverage Public Company | Partner Annabelle Yip Kevin Ho |
Vietnam
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Baker McKenzie | Adamed’s acquisition of majority stakes in Dat Vi Phu Pharmaceutical | $50 million | Dat Vi Phu Pharmaceutical | Partner Lan Phuong Nguyen Associate Nguyen Vu Quynh Trang |
Mayer Brown JSM | Standard Chartered Bank’s sale of entire stakes in Vietnam’s Asia Commercial Bank | $263 million | Standard Chartered Bank’s subsidiaries Standard Chartered APR and Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) | Partners David Harrison Hoang Anh Nguyen
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