Jurisdiction - India
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways Confidential Blackstone Raghubir Menon (Partner) Shubhangi Pathak, Ekta Gupta, Prashant Sirohi, (Senior associates) Anirban Bhattacharya, Neha Udeshi, Anisha Gupta, Taranjeet Singh (Associates) AZB & Partners Reliance Industries Ltd’s offering of 5.875 percent senior perpetual notes $800 million Reliance Industries Ltd HSA Advocates Sale and transfer of its Delhi Territory Business by Pearl Drinks Ltd to Varun Beverages Ltd Undisclosed Pearl Drinks Ltd Aparajit Bhattacharya (Partner) Harvinder Singh (Partner designate) Sumedha Dutta (Senior associate) J. Sagar Associates Reliance Industries Ltd’s offering of 5.875 percent senior perpetual notes $800 million 1.Merrill Lynch 2.Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 3.Citigroup Global Markets Inc 4.The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd 5.Barclays Bank PLC 5.Deutsche Bank AG (SG branch) 6.J.P. Morgan Securities plc 7.The Royal Bank of Scotland Dina Wadia (Partner) Uttara Kolhatkar (Senior associate) J. Sagar Associates Sale and transfer of its Delhi Territory Business by Pearl Drinks Ltd to Varun Beverages Ltd Undisclosed PepsiCo Jyoti Sagar (Founding partner) Upendra Nath Sharma (Partner) Nitesh Bhasin (Senior associate) K Law Sale of entire equity of HealthSprint Networks’ promoters in it to venture capital funds, Nirvana Digital India Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners Confidential HealthSprint Networks Pvt Ltd and promoters Shwetambari Rao (Partner) Abhinav Singh (Senior associate) Abhirup Ghosh (Associate) Nishith Desai Associates Sale of entire equity of HealthSprint Networks’ promoters in it to venture capital funds, Nirvana Digital India Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners Confidential 1. Nirvana Digital India Fund 2. Bessemer Venture Partners Nishchal Joshipura (Partner) Karan Kalra, Sahil Shah (Associates)
Jurisdiction - Maldives
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Conyers Dill & Pearman (Cayman) Ltd (Cayman Islands counsel) Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways Confidential Lenders: 1.HSBC 2.Deutsche Bank Freshfields (Financing counsel) Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways Confidential Blackstone Lorena Wong (Trainee solicitor) Angus Henesey Lennox (Associate) Linklaters Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways Confidential 1.Maldivian Air Taxi 2.Trans Maldivian Airways David Martin (Partner) Mantraraj Budhdev (Associate) Premier Chambers (Maldivian counsel) Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways Confidential Lenders: 1.HSBC 2.Deutsche Bank Shah Hussain & Co Barristers & Attorneys (Maldivian counsel) Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways Confidential Blackstone Shuaib M. Shah (Founding partner) Walkers (Cayman Islands counsel) Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways Confidential Blackstone Ramesh Maharaj (Partner) Tracey Touhey (Associate)
Jurisdiction - Singapore
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Rodyk & Davidson LLP Grant of restructured credit facilities to Cambridge Industrial Trust Management S$470 million ($380.54 million) National Australia Bank-led lenders Lee Ho Wah (Partner) Bernice Ong, (Senior associates) Wong Cui Lian (Associate) Rodyk & Davidson LLP Sing Holdings Ltd’s acquisition of a 99-year leasehold residential land at Punggol Field Walk/Punggol East S$162.1 million ($131.24 million) Coral Edge Development Pte Ltd Norman Ho (Partner) Jeannette Lim (Senior associate) Goh Chern Fern (Associate) Rodyk & Davidson LLP Sing Holdings Ltd’s acquisition of a 99-year leasehold residential land at Punggol Field Walk/Punggol East S$162.1 million ($131.24 million) Sing Holdings Ltd Norman Ho (Partner) Jeannette Lim (Senior associate) Goh Chern Fern (Associate) Watson, Farley & Williams LLP Sale and lease back transaction of maritime containers’ portfolio for China Shipping Container Lines and CDB Leasing $358.6 million Co-lenders: 1.DVB Group Merchant Bank (Asia) Ltd 2.China Development Bank Mehraab Nazir, Peter Chean, Madeline Leong (Partners) Lizzie Roe (Associate) Janice Lee (Solicitor) WongPartnership LLP JBE Holdings Pte Ltd’s JV with Keong Hong Construction Pte Ltd to set up a joint-venture company, Oasis Development Pte Ltd Undisclosed JBE Holdings Pte Ltd Vivien Yui, Annabel Kang (Partners) WongPartnership LLP United Overseas Bank Ltd’s amendment and restatement of facility agreement pertaining to financing granted to Hotel Plaza Property (Singapore) Pte Ltd S$145 million ($117.40 million) United Overseas Bank Ltd Christy Lim, Dorothy Marie Ng (Partners)
Jurisdiction - Vietnam
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Hogan Lovells Vietnam Airlines’ ECA financing of five Airbus A321 aircraft Undisclosed Vietnam Airlines Richard Jadot (Paris partner) Nasir PKM Abdul (Of Counsel, Ho Chi Minh City) Richard Goss (London senior associate) Chau Nguyen (Ho Chi Minh City associate)
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