Jurisdiction – India
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Adcock Ingram’s acquisition of Cosme Farma Laboratories Ltd Rs. 510 crores ($28.15 million) Adcock Ingram Ashish Jejurkar, Ranjan Negi, Rashmi Pradeep, Nisha Kaur Uberoi (Partners) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Amalgamation of JSW Ispat into JSW Steel Ltd $1.36 billion 1.JSW Steel Ltd 2.JSW ISPAT Steel Ltd Nisha Kaur Uberoi, L. Viswanathan, Amita Choudary Katragadda (Partners) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Blackstone Capital Partners (Singapore) VI and associate companies’ acquisition of 12.5 percent stake in International Tractors Ltd $100 million Promoters of International Tractors Ltd Chandrasekhar Tampi (Principal associate) Gaurav Dayal (Senior associate) Maureen Ralte (Associate) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) and Biological E’s 50/50 joint venture for early stage R&D of a six-in-one combination paediatric vaccine Confidential Biological E Puja Sondhi (Partner) Ramanuj Gopalan (Principal associate designate) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co ICICI Bank’s issue of 2.75 percent notes due 2020 CHF100 million ($110.16 million) ICICI Bank Niloufer Lam (Partner) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co ICICI Bank’s issue of 3.65 percent notes due 2020 S$225 million ICICI Bank Niloufer Lam (Partner) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Trakya Cam Sanayii AS’ joint venture with Hindusthan National Glass Rs. 510 crores ($28.15 million) Trakya Cam Sanayii AS Ashwath Rau, Vandana Pai Bharucha, Pankaj Agarwal (Partners) AZB & Partners Blackstone Capital Partners (Singapore) VI and associate companies’ acquisition of 12.5 percent stake in International Tractors Ltd $100 million Blackstone Capital Partners (Singapore) VI Essaji Vahanvati (Partner) AZB & Partners Coromandel’s acquisition of up to 26 percent of Liberty Phosphate Ltd’s (LPL) equity share capital from its public shareholders through an open offer Rs. 904.7 million ($16.8 million) Coromandel International Ltd Darshika Kothari (Partner) Nilanjana Singh, Rinki Ganguli, Arpita Acharya (Associates) AZB & Partners Coromandel’s proposed acquisition of about 56 percent of Liberty Phosphate Ltd’s (LPL) equity share capital from existing promoters and LPL’s promoter group Rs. 1.96 billion ($36.26 million) Coromandel International Ltd Darshika Kothari (Partner) Nilanjana Singh, Rinki Ganguli, Arpita Acharya (Associates) AZB & Partners Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) and Biological E’s 50/50 joint venture for early stage R&D of a six-in-one combination paediatric vaccine Confidential Glaxo Smith Kline AZB & Partners Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd’s acquisition of Falken Tyre India Pvt Ltd’s 60 percent equity Rs. 550 million ($10 million) Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd Percival Billimoria, Debashish Sankhari (Partners) Desai & Diwanji Adcock Ingram’s acquisition of Cosme Farma Laboratories Ltd Rs. 510 crores ($28.15 million) Cosme Farma Laboratories Ltd Anuj Menon (Partner) Homburger AG (Swiss counsel) ICICI Bank’s issue of 2.75 percent notes due 2020 CHF100 million ($110.16 million) Lead manager: Deutsche Bank AG, London branch (acting through Deutsche Bank AG, Zurich branch) Eduard De Zordi (Counsel) Khaitan & Co Trakya Cam Sanayii AS’ joint venture with Hindusthan National Glass Rs. 510 crores ($28.15 million) Hindusthan National Glass Akash Choubey (Partner) Latham & Watkins LLP (U.S. and English counsel) ICICI Bank’s issue of 3.65 percent notes due 2020 S$225 million ($181.20 million) Lead managers: 1.Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd 2.The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd 3.Standard Chartered Bank Min Yee Ng (Partner)
Jurisdiction – Singapore
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Allen & Gledhill LLP The Straits Trading Company Ltd’s mandatory conditional offer to acquire all the issued ordinary stock united in WBL Corporation Ltd’s capital ~ S$869.58 million ($300 million) WBL Corporation Ltd Christopher Ong (Partner) Ko Xiaozheng (Associate) WongPartnership LLP Biosensors International Group, Ltd’s multicurrency medium-term note programme and issue of 4.875 percent fixed- rate notes due 2017 Medium-term programme: S$800 million ($644.26 million) Issue of fixed-rate notes: S$300 million ($241.60 million) Biosensors International Group, Ltd Hui Choon Yuen (Partner) WongPartnership LLP Guthrie GTS Ltd’s medium-term note programme and issue of 3.70 percent fixed-rate notes due 2018 Medium-term programme: S$500 million ($402.66 million) Issue of fixed-rate notes: S$125 million ($100.67 million) 1.Guthrie GTS Ltd 2.Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd 3) British Malayan Trustees Ltd Hui Choon Yuen, Goh Gin Nee, Colin Ong (Partners) WongPartnership LLP The Straits Trading Company Ltd’s mandatory conditional offer to acquire all the issued ordinary stock united in WBL Corporation Ltd’s capital ~ S$869.58 million ($300 million) WBL Corporation Ltd Ng Wai King, Chan Sing Yee (Partners)
Jurisdiction - Thailand
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Allen & Overy (Thai and U.S. counsel) Thai Oil Public Co Ltd’s dual-tranche senior unsecured fixed-rate notes offering to foreign institutional investors $1 billion 1.Barclays 2.HSBC 3.Standard Chartered Bank (Joint bookrunners, lead managers, underwriters) Baker & McKenzie Thai Oil Public Co Ltd’s dual-tranche senior unsecured fixed-rate notes offering to foreign institutional investors $1 billion Thai Oil Public Co Ltd Viroj Piyawattanametha (Partner) Kowit Akireksombat, Natcha Sihanatkathakul (Associates) Latham & Watkins (U.S. counsel) Thai Oil Public Co Ltd’s dual-tranche senior unsecured fixed-rate notes offering to foreign institutional investors $1 billion Thai Oil Public Co Ltd Michael Sturrock, Timothy Hia (Partners)
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