Jurisdiction – India
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co Navayuga Road Projects’ issuance of debentures to Piramal Enterprises Rs. 550 crores ($97 million) Piramal Enterprises Ltd Santosh Janakiram (Partner) AZB & Partners IMS Health’s acquisition of 360 LLC’s entire equity interest Confidential IMS Health Inc Darshika Kothari (Partner) Abe Abraham, Rinki Ganguli (Associates) AZB & Partners Newbridge India Investments II’s sale of 22,847,460 shares Rs. 16 billion ($295.8 million) Newbridge India Investments II Ltd Shuva Mandal (Partner) Bhavi Sanghvi (Associate) AZB & Partners Sangita Jindal’s offer for sale of her 2,82,30,000 equity shares in JSW Energy Rs. 1.73 billion ($31 million) Brokers: 1.Macquarie Capital Securities (India) 2. Fortune Equity Brokers (India) 3. SBICAP Securities Varoon Chandra (Partner) Lionel Almeida (Associate) AZB & Partners Styrolution’s offer for sale of its 21,67,500 equity shares in Styrolution (ABS) India Rs. 860 million ($15 million) Citigroup Global Markets India Pvt Ltd (Broker) Varoon Chandra (Partner) Lionel Almeida (Associate) AZB & Partners Tata Autocomp Systems’ sale of 50 percent stake to Johnson Controls Auto India Confidential Tata Autocomp Systems Ltd Ashwin Ramanathan (Partner) Vijay Manjrekar (Associate) AZB & Partners Tata Technologies’ acquisition of Cambric Holdings Confidential Tata Technologies Ltd Ashwin Ramanathan (Partner) Ratnadeep Roychowdhury (Associate) Desai & Diwanji Navis Asia VI Management’s acquisition of majority equity interest in TES-Envirocorp Undisclosed Navis Asia VI Management Co Ltd Apurva Diwanji (Partner) Khaitan & Co Demerger of Orient Paper’s cement division into group company, Orient Cement Undisclosed Orient Paper and Industries Ltd Haigreve Khaitan, Rabindra Jhunjhunwala (Partners) Khaitan & Co Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India’s institutional placement programme $19 million Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Ltd Nikhilesh Panchal (Partner) Khaitan & Co Navayuga Road Projects’ issuance of debentures to Piramal Enterprises Rs. 550 crores ($97 million) Navayuga Road Projects Pvt Ltd Upendra Joshi (Partner) Udwadia Udeshi & Argus Partners Cordlife Group’s acquisition of Cordlife’s cord blood and cord tissue banking businesses A$5.5 million ($5.3 million) Cordlife Group Ltd Ramya Hariharan (Partner) Deepaloke Chatterjee (Associate)
Jurisdiction – Indonesia
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved DNC Advocates Cordlife Group’s acquisition of Cordlife’s cord blood and cord tissue banking businesses A$5.5 million ($5.3 million) Cordlife Group Ltd Handika Tjen (Advocate) Soewito Suhardiman Eddymurthy Kardono BlueScope Steel’s joint venture with Nippon Steel Corp $1.3 billion BlueScope Steel Ltd Ira Eddymurthy, Fahrul Yusuf (Partners)
Jurisdiction – Malaysia
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Cheang & Ariff Navis Asia VI Management’s acquisition of majority equity interest in TES-Envirocorp Undisclosed Navis Asia VI Management Co Ltd Yoon Ming Sun (Partner)
Jurisdiction – Philippines
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Co Ferrer & Ang-Co Law Offices: Cordlife Group’s acquisition of Cordlife’s cord blood and cord tissue banking businesses A$5.5 million ($5.3 million) Cordlife Group Ltd Maria Angeli Ferrer (Partner)
Jurisdiction – Singapore
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Allen & Gledhill Guocoland Group's first issue of 4.7 percent perpetual securities under MTN programme S$200 million ($159 million) 1.DBS Bank Ltd 2.HSBC Ltd Allen & Gledhill Navis Asia VI Management’s acquisition of majority equity interest in TES-Envirocorp Undisclosed TES-Envirocorp Pte Ltd Oh Hsiu-hau, Lauren Chung Su-Ling (Partners) Clifford Chance Asian Pay Television Trust’s IPO $1.1 billion Asian Pay Television Trust Johannes Juette, Raymond Tong (Partners) Montse Ferrer (Associate) Clyde & Co Ocean Dial Investment Company Singapore’s acquisition of Ocean Dial Group’s entire issued share capital from Caledonia Investments Undisclosed Caledonia Investments Colin Ng & Partners Ocean Dial Investment Company Singapore’s acquisition of Ocean Dial Group’s entire issued share capital from Caledonia Investments Undisclosed Ocean Dial Investment Company Singapore Pte Ltd Bill Jamieson (Partner) Amit Ramkrishn Dhume (Senior foreign associate) Herbert Smith Freehills TML Holdings’ fixed rate bond offer S$350 million ($278 million) Joint bookrunners and lead managers: 1. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group 2.Citigroup Global Markets Singapore 3.Deutsche Bank AG, SG branch 4.Standard Chartered Bank Philip Lee (Partner) Gareth Deiner (Senior associate) Nupur Kant (Associate) Norton Rose TML Holdings’ fixed rate bond offer S$350 million ($278 million) Note Trustee and Agents Rajah & Tann Guocoland Group's first issue of 4.7 percent perpetual securities under MTN programme S$200 million ($159 million) GuocoLand Ltd Goh Kian Hwee, Angela Lim (Partners) Kalyn Liang, Lim Ee Nian (Associates) Rajah & Tann TML Holdings’ fixed rate bond offer S$350 million ($278 million) TML Holdings Pte Ltd Abdul Jabbar Bin, Karam Din, Lee Xin Mei (Partners) Khairil Bin Suhairee (Associate) Shook Lin & Bok Bon Ween Foong’s mandatory unconditional cash offer for remaining ordinary shares in Sinobest’s capital S$13.3 million ($11 million) Sinobest Gwendolyn Gn (Partner) Wilsons Solicitors Ocean Dial Investment Company Singapore’s acquisition of Ocean Dial Group’s entire issued share capital from Caledonia Investments Undisclosed Ocean Dial WongPartnership Bon Ween Foong’s mandatory unconditional cash offer for remaining ordinary shares in Sinobest’s capital S$13.3 million ($11 million) Asiasons WFG Capital Pte Ltd Andrew Ang, Chan Sing Yee (Partners) WongPartnership Cordlife Group’s acquisition of Cordlife’s cord blood and cord tissue banking businesses A$5.5 million ($5.3 million) Cordlife Group Vivien Yui (Partner) WongPartnership Navis Asia VI Management’s acquisition of majority equity interest in TES-Envirocorp Undisclosed Navis Asia VI Management Co Ltd Ng Wai King (Joint managing partner) Tay Liam Keng, Tan Teck Howe, Lam Chung Nian (Partners) WongPartnership Proposed voluntary delisting of Pan Pacific Hotels Group by UOL Group S$1.5 billion ($1.19 billion) 1.UOL Group Ltd 2.Pan Pacific Hotels Group Ltd Ng Wai King (Joint managing partner) Andrew Ang, Milton Toon (Partners)
Jurisdiction – Vietnam
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Allen & Overy Warburg Pincus Consortium’s investment in and partnership with Vingroup Joint Stock Co $200 million Vingroup JSC Duc Tran (Partner) Jeff Olson (Senior associate) Mai Pham, Phuong Tran, Anh Le (Associates) Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Warburg Pincus Consortium’s investment in and partnership with Vingroup Joint Stock Co $200 million Warburg Pincus Tony Foster, Edward Freeman (Partners) Amy Beckingham(Senior associate) Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Warburg Pincus Consortium’s investment in and partnership with Vingroup Joint Stock Co $200 million Vingroup JSC YKVN Lawyers Warburg Pincus Consortium’s investment in and partnership with Vingroup Joint Stock Co $200 million Warburg Pincus
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