Jurisdiction – India
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Addleshaw Goddard Britvic Group’s distribution agreement with Narang Group Undisclosed Britvic Worldwide Brands Ltd Mike Duggan (Partner) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone’s institutional private placement of equity shares $180 million Adani Ports Yash Ashar, Gaurav Gupte (Partners) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Buy-back of shares by HT Media Rs. 25 crores ($4.3 million) HT Media Ltd Inder Mohan Singh (Partner) Kunal Mehra (Principal associate designate) Aayush Kapoor (Senior associate) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co StanChart’s acquisition of Morgan Stanley’s private wealth management business Undisclosed Morgan Stanley Cyril Shroff (Mumbai managing partner) Ipsita Dutta (Partner) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co StanChart’s external commercial borrowing grant to Khubchandani Hospitals $49 million Khubchandani Hospitals Pvt Ltd Niloufer Lam (Partner) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Vedanta Resources’ issue of 6 percent bonds due 2019 and 7.125 percent bonds due 2023 $1,700 million Vedanta Resources plc Prashant Gupta (Partner) Monal Mukherjee (Principal associate designate) Agnik Bhattacharyya, Shatarupa Dasgupta (Senior associates) Apurva Rai (Senior associate designate) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Vedanta Resources’ issue of 6 percent bonds due 2019 and 7.125 percent bonds due 2023 $1,700 million Joint bookrunners: 1.Barclays Bank 2.Citigroup Global Markets Ltd 3.J.P. Morgan Securities plc 4.Merrill Lynch 5.Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc 6.The Royal Bank of Scotland plc 7.Standard Chartered Bank 8.Deutsche Bank AG, SG branch Prashant Gupta (Partner) Monal Mukherjee (Principal associate designate) Agnik Bhattacharyya, Shatarupa Dasgupta (Senior associates) Apurva Rai (Senior associate designate) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Wipro’s demerger of its non-IT business divisions Undisclosed Wipro Ltd Cyril Shroff (Mumbai managing partner) Arjun Lall, Nivedita Rao (Partners) DSK Legal Britvic Group’s distribution agreement with Narang Group Undisclosed Narang Group Anand Desai (Partner) Hunton & Williams External commercial borrowing by Karnavati Aviation to acquire one 2012 Embraer Legacy 650 aircraft $22.1 million Bank of America N.A. Ferdinand Calice (Partner) Jones Day Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone’s institutional private placement of equity shares $180 million 1.DSP Merrill Lynch 2.Morgan Stanley 3. Goldman Sachs 4.Standard Chartered 5.SBI Capital Markets 6.Axis Capital 7.Citi 8.Deutsche Equities 9.IDFC 10.Macquarie Capital Manoj Bhargava, Colleen Laduzinsk (Partners) Nikhil Naredi, Kevin Khan, Brandon Mo (Associates) J. Sagar Associates Cadence Design Systems’ acquisition of Cosmic Circuits Undisclosed Cadence Design Systems Inc Sajai Singh, Gerald Manoharan (Partners) Prashant Kumar (Senior associate) Soumya Patnaik, Rakesh Warrier, Ankita Ray, Garima Jhunjhunwala (Associates) Khaitan & Co Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone’s institutional private placement of equity shares $180 million Placement agents of IPP Nikhilesh Panchal, Sudhir Bassi (Partners) Khaitan & Co Britvic Group’s distribution agreement with Narang Group Undisclosed Britvic Worldwide Brands Ltd Vaishali Sharma (Partner) Niren Patel (Associate partner) Khaitan & Co CWT Commodities’ acquisition of majority stake in MAIIA Inspection Services Undisclosed CWT Commodities Pte Ltd Anand Mehta (Partner) Khaitan & Co External commercial borrowing by Karnavati Aviation to acquire one 2012 Embraer Legacy 650 aircraft $22.1 million Bank of America N.A. Devidas Banerji (Partner) King Stubb & Kasiva Cadence Design Systems’ acquisition of Cosmic Circuits Undisclosed Cosmic Circuits Pvt Ltd Rajesh Sivaswamy (Senior partner) Kochhar & Co Sale of Oracle Financial Services Software’s equity shares Rs. 1 billion ($20 million) Oracle Global (Mauritius) Ltd Harminder Chawla, Akshit Kapoor (Partners) P&C Legal CWT Commodities’ acquisition of majority stake in MAIIA Inspection Services Undisclosed MAIIA Inspection Services Pvt Ltd Vishnu Jerome (Partner) Phoenix Legal StanChart’s external commercial borrowing grant to Khubchandani Hospitals $49 million Standard Chartered Bank Jijo Cherian Trilegal StanChart’s acquisition of Morgan Stanley’s private wealth management business Undisclosed Standard Chartered Bank Nishant Parikh (Partner) Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Wipro’s demerger of its non-IT business divisions Undisclosed Wipro Ltd
Jurisdiction – Singapore
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice Extension of loan facility to Berantai Floating Production for re-financing of floating production, storage and offloading facility $300 million 1.Petrofac 2.SapuraKencana Andrew Nimmo (Partner) Shawn Er (Senior associate) Jurisdiction – Vietnam
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Allens Signing of loan facilities and related documents for financing of Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Company $5 billion Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Company Ltd Bill Magennis, Hop Dang, Michael Ryan, Phillip Cornwell, Hop Dang, Robert Fish, Michael Hollingdale (Partners) Allens Signing of loan facilities and related documents for financing of Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Company $5 billion Sponsors: 1.Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd 2. Kuwait Petroleum Europe B.V. 3.Mitsui Chemicals Inc 4.Vietnam Oil and Gas Group Bill Magennis, Hop Dang, Michael Ryan, Phillip Cornwell, Hop Dang, Robert Fish, Michael Hollingdale (Partners) Allen & Overy Signing of loan facilities and related documents for financing of Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Company $5 billion Export credit agencies and commercial lenders Aled Davies, Simon Black, Matthias Voss (Partners) Hans Menski, Scott Lovell, Sophie Chamberlin, Jae Ahn, Kazuko Ali, Michael Evry, Tina LeDinh, Phuong Tran, Thuy Huynh, Phong Le (Associates) Where exact value is not known, ALB will use an approximate value based on available market data or coverage. Follow us on Twitter: @ALB_Magazine.