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Jurisdiction – India
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
ALMT Legal | Exova Group’s acquisition of Metallurgical Services | Undisclosed | Exova Group Plc | Aliff Fazelbhoy (Senior partner)
Statira Ranina (Partner) |
AZB & Partners | Abja Investment’s issue of dual-tranche unsecured bonds of 4.85 percent and 5.95 percent due 2020 and 2024 | Rs. 89.7 billion ($1.5 billion) | Tata Steel Ltd | Shameek Chaudhuri (Partner)
Varoon Chandra (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | Bharti and/or its affiliates’ sale of their passive infrastructure business to Helios Towers Africa and/or its affiliates | Confidential | Bharti Airtel Ltd | Gautam Saha (Partner)
Amrita Patnaik (Senior associate) |
AZB & Partners | International Finance Corp’s acquisition of approximately 10 percent of Sustainable Agro-commercial Finance’s share capital | Confidential | International Finance Corp | Gautam Saha (Partner)
Shuchi Sinha (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | International Finance Corp’s loan grant to Dewan Housing Finance Corp | Rs. 4.6 billion ($85 million) | International Finance Corp | Gautam Saha (Partner)
Dushyant Bagga (Senior associate)
Shuchi Sinha (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | International Finance Corp’s loan grant to OCL India | Rs. 2.3 billion ($40 million) | International Finance Corp | Gautam Saha (Partner)
Dushyant Bagga (Senior associate) |
AZB & Partners | Suzlon Energy’s acquisition of existing outstanding FCCBs in exchange for new bonds due to mature on July 16, 2019, to all its existing FCCB holders, including Bondholders | Rs. 32.8 billion ($546.9 million) | Holders of a majority of the outstanding FCCBs (Bondholders) | Ashwin Ramanathan (Partner)
Varoon Chandra, Bhavi Sanghvi (Associates) |
AZB & Partners | Transfer of trusteeship, management and administration of the Schemes of the Daiwa Mutual Fund from Daiwa Asset Management (India) and Daiwa Trustee Company (India) to SBI AMC and SBI TC | Confidential | Daiwa Asset Management (India) Pvt Ltd | Alka Nalavadi (Partner)
Rushabh Maniar (Associate) |
Bharucha & Partners | Exova Group’s acquisition of Metallurgical Services | Undisclosed | Metallurgical Services | Vishnu Dutt (Partner) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Rolta Americas’ Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of 8.875 percent high-yield notes due 2019 | $300 million | Initial purchasers: 1.Barclays Bank PLC 2.Citigroup Global Markets Inc | William Barron, John Paton (Partners)
Shih-Jern Liang, Sarah Joy, Samantha Hait (Associates)
Jesse Gillespie, Bo Huang (Registered foreign lawyers)
Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel) |
DLA Piper | Rolta Americas’ Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of 8.875 percent high-yield notes due 2019 | $300 million | Rolta India |
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Fenwick & West | Omidyar Network’s investment in Scroll Media | Undisclosed | Omidyar Network | Steven Levine (Partner)
Amit Khanna (Associate) |
Khaitan & Co | Kosamattam Finance’s IPO of secured redeemable non-convertible debentures | $16.6 million | Kosamattam Finance Ltd | Sudhir Bassi (Executive director)
Nikhilesh Panchal (Partner) |
Khaitan & Co | Omidyar Network’s investment in Scroll Media | Undisclosed | Omidyar Network | Daksha Baxi (Executive director)
Ganesh Prasad (Partner) |
Khaitan & Co | SBS Holdings’ acquisition of 66 percent stake in Transpole Logistics | Undisclosed | SBS Holdings Inc | Daksha Baxi (Executive director)
Manas Kumar Chaudhuri (Partner)
Rajat Mukherjee, Harsh Kumar (Associate partners) |
Trilegal | Rolta Americas’ Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of 8.875 percent high-yield notes due 2019 | $300 million | Initial purchasers: 1.Barclays Bank PLC 2.Citigroup Global Markets Inc |
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Jurisdiction – Malaysia
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Rahmat Lim & Partners | Malaysia Airports Holdings’ acquisition of a 40 percent equity stake in each of İstanbul Sabiha Gökçen Uluslararası Havalimanı Yatırım Yapım ve İşletme A.Ş. and LGM Havalimanı İşletmeleri Ticaret ve Turizm A.Ş. from GMR Infrastructure, GMR Infrastructure Overseas and GMR Infrastructure (Global) | 209 million euros (~$280 million) | Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd | Wan Kai Chee, Kelvin Loh Hsien Han (Partners) |
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Jurisdiction – Myanmar
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Linklaters and Allens alliance | KDDI Corp-Sumitomo Corp consortium’s agreement with Myanma Posts & Telecommunications to jointly develop and operate a fixed and mobile phone network in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar | Undisclosed | KDDI Corp-Sumitomo Corp consortium | Niranjan Arasaratnam (Head of Allens’ TMT group)
Stuart Bedford, Savi Hebbur (Partners) |
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Jurisdiction – Singapore
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Allen & Gledhill | Divestment of the office building, Anson House, to SEB Investment GmbH | S$172 million ($138 million) | CBRE Global Investors | Lyn Wee, Tan Boon Wah, Lim Chong Ying (Partners) |
Allen & Gledhill | Centurion Corp’s proposed acquisition of four properties in the UK | 77 million pounds ($130.3 million) | Centurion Corp Ltd | Christopher Ong (Partner) |
Allen & Gledhill | Temasek Financial (I)’s updation of its guaranteed global medium-term note programme | $15 billion | 1.Temasek Financial (I) Ltd 2.Temasek Holdings (Pvt) Ltd | Yeo Wico, Jeanne Ong, Sunit Chhabra (Partners) |
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Jurisdiction – Thailand
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Morrison & Foerster | $1 billion | Charoen Pokphand Group | Randy Laxer, Mitsutoshi Uchida, Jeremy Hunt, Jonathan Gowdy (Partners)
Aki Bayz (Of counsel) |