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Jurisdiction – India
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
AZB & Partners | ASL Aviation group’s acquisition of the Farnair Group, including its Indian subsidiary Quikjet Cargo Airlines | Confidential | ASL Aviation Group | Nandish Vyas (Partner)
Shwetank Ginodia (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s acquisition of compulsorily convertible preference shares issued by L&T Infrastructure Development Projects | Rs. 20 billion ($316 million) | L&T Infrastructure Development Projects Ltd | Sai Krishna Bharathan, Nilanjana Singh (Partners) |
AZB & Partners | Indglobal Network’s sale of 50 percent of Dachser India’s equity shares to Dachser Beteiligungs-AG | Rs. 1.22 billion (~$20.3 million) | Indglobal Network Pvt Ltd | Abhijit Joshi (Partner)
Anand Shah (Senior associate) |
AZB & Partners | UFO Moviez India’s IPO | Rs. 7.5 billion ($118.5 million) | UFO Moviez India Ltd | Varoon Chandra (Partner)
Lionel D’Almeida, Richa Choudhary (Senior associates) |
AZB & Partners | VRL Logistics’ IPO | $22.52 million | 1.VRL Logistics Ltd 2.HSBC Securities and Capital Markets (India) Pvt Ltd 3.ICICI Securities Ltd | Varoon Chandra (Partner)
Lionel D’Almeida, Richa Choudhary (Senior associates) |
BMR Advisors | Scheme Residential Opportunities Fund – I’s investment in a Virgo Realtors Chennai project | Rs. 20 crores ($3.2 million) | Jones Lang Lasalle Investment Advisors Pvt Ltd |
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Economic Laws Practice | Canara Bank’s extension of rupee term loan facility to Krishna Showbiz Services | Rs. 100 crores ($15.8 million) | Canara Bank | Sujjain Talwar, Jeet Sen Gupta (Partners)
Deep Roy (Associate partner)
Nitin Gupta, Okram Singha (Associate managers) |
Economic Laws Practice | FIL Capital Investments (Mauritius) II’s, Somerset Indus Healthcare Fund I’s and Lotus Management Solutions’ investment in Cygnus Medicare | Rs. 50 crores ($7.9 million) | 1.FIL Capital Investments (Mauritius) II Ltd 2.Somerset Indus Healthcare Fund I Ltd 3.Lotus Management Solutions | Sujjain Talwar (Partner)
Vinayak Burman (Associate partner)
Archana Khosla (Senior associate)
Amoolya Narayan (Associate) |
Economic Laws Practice | IIRF India Realty XXII’s, IL&FS Trust Company’s and Precilion Holdings’ exit from Wadhwa Residency through sale of their stakes in it | Rs. 2,150 million ($34 million) | Wadhwa Residency Pvt Ltd | Rohit Jain Darshan Upadhyay Bhavin Gada Vidushi Maheshwari Manendra Singh |
Economic Laws Practice | Milestone Real Estate Fund’s investment in Domus Greens | Rs. 500 million ($7.9 million) | Milestone Real Estate Fund | Suhail Nathani, Darshan Upadhyay (Partners)
Bhavin Gada (Senior associate)
Manendra Singh (Associate) |
Economic Laws Practice | Piramal Enterprises’ investment in Acme Housing India | Rs. 950 million ($15 million) | 1.Piramal Enterprises Ltd 2.Piramal Fund Management Private Ltd | Suhail Nathani, Darshan Upadhyay (Partners)
Bhavin Gada (Senior associate)
Manendra Singh (Associate) |
J. Sagar Associates | Carnival Films’ acquisition of 100 percent equity stake of Big Cinemas from Reliance MediaWorks | Rs. 700 crores ($110.6 million) | Reliance MediaWorks | Akshay Chudasama, Jay Gandhi, Gaurav Singhi (Partners)
Neety Thakkar, Soumya Shankar, Meghna Nachappa (Associates) |
J. Sagar Associates | Scheme Residential Opportunities Fund – I’s investment in a Virgo Realtors Chennai project | Rs. 20 crores ($3.2 million) | Scheme Residential Opportunities Fund – I | Vivek Chandy, Vinod Kumar, Aarthi Sivanandh, Raj Ramachandran (Partners)
Asok Chacko Thomas, Tamara Devanandan (Senior associates)
Lalu John Philip, Srinivasan M.D. (Associates) |
J. Sagar Associates | Symphony Teleca India Corp’s acquisition of significant shareholding in Aditi Technologies | Undisclosed | Symphony Teleca India Corp Pvt Ltd | Vivek Chandy, Raj Ramachandran, Malini Raju (Partners)
Shefali Rajput, K. Z. Kuriyan, Lalu John Philip (Associates) |
Majmudar & Partners | Carnival Films’ acquisition of 100 percent equity stake of Big Cinemas from Reliance MediaWorks | Rs. 700 crores ($110.6 million) | Carnival Films Pvt Ltd | Rukshad Davar (Partner) |
Majmudar & Partners | Midmark Corp’s acquisition of Janak Healthcare | Undisclosed | Midmark Corp | Akil Hirani (Managing partner) |
Nishith Desai Associates | Symphony Teleca India Corp’s acquisition of significant shareholding in Aditi Technologies | Undisclosed | Aditi Technologies Pvt Ltd |
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | Symphony Teleca India Corp’s acquisition of significant shareholding in Aditi Technologies | Undisclosed | Symphony Teleca India Corp Pvt Ltd |
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Jurisdiction – Indonesia
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Addleshaw Goddard | Rolls-Royce’s global sale of its energy gas turbine and compressor business to Siemens | $1.2 billion | Rolls-Royce |
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SSEK Indonesian Legal Consultants | Rolls-Royce’s global sale of its energy gas turbine and compressor business to Siemens | $1.2 billion | Rolls-Royce | Ira Eddymurthy (Partner)
Bambang Dhanisworo, Esther Panggabean (Associates) |
SSEK Indonesian Legal Consultants | Thai Containers Group’s acquisition of PT Indoris Printingdo | $6.1 million | Thai Containers Group Co Ltd | Fahrul Yusuf (Partner)
Deni Sri Anjayani (Senior associate) |
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Jurisdiction – Malaysia
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Hogan Lovells | Nirvana Asia’s Rule 144A placement of shares and Hong Kong IPO | $261 million | Underwriters: 1.UBS AG (Hong Kong branch) 2.DBS Asia Capital Ltd 3.CIMB Securities Ltd | Jamie Barr, Thomas Tarala (Partners)
Nelson Tang (Consultant)
Sheryl Cheung (Senior associate)
Jianhao Zheng (Associate) |
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Jurisdiction – Philippines
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Clifford Chance | Hexagon Investments’ sale of a partial stake in Rizal Commercial Banking Corp to Cathay Life Insurance | PHP7.618 billion (~$171 million) | Hexagon Investments B.V. | Neeraj Budhwani (Partner)
Bryan Koo (Senior associate)
Maureen Ho (Associate) |
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Jurisdiction – Singapore
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
*Allen & Gledhill, Ali Budiardjo, Nugroho, Reksodiputro and Rahmat Lim & Partners[1] | UTAC Holdings’ acquisition of three subsidiaries of Panasonic Corp operating semiconductor testing and assembly facilities in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia | $116.5 million | UTAC Holdings Ltd | A&G Singapore team: Richard Young, Lauren Chung, Kelvin Wong, Tham Kok Leong (Partners)
ABNR Indonesia team: Emir Nurmansyah (Partner)
Oene Marseille (Foreign Counsel)
Rahmat Lim Malaysia team: Moy Pui Yee (Partner) |
Allen & Gledhill | OUE Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust’s acquisition of Crowne Plaza Changi Airport and Crowne Plaza Changi Airport Extension through RBC Investor Services Trust Singapore | S$495 million ($374.6 million) | OUE Hospitality REIT Management Pte Ltd | Ho Kin San, Serena Choo (Partners) |
Allen & Gledhill | Sabana Shari’ah Compliant Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust’s issue of commodity murabaha facilities | S$243 million ($183.9 million) | Sabana Real Estate Investment Management Pte Ltd | Long Pee Hua, Jerry Koh (Partners) |
Allen & Gledhill | The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Citibank, DBS Bank, Mizuho Bank and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp’s term loan grant to Singapore LNG Corp | S$1.11 billion ($840 million) | Singapore LNG Corp Pte Ltd | Kok Chee Wai (Partner) |
Allen & Gledhill | UOL Treasury Services’ establishment of its multicurrency MTN programme | S$1 billion ($799.8 million) | Arranger: United Overseas Bank Ltd |
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Allen & Gledhill | UOL Treasury Services’ establishment of its multicurrency MTN programme | S$1 billion ($799.8 million) | Trustee: DB International Trust (Singapore) Ltd
Issuing and Paying Agent: Deutsche Bank AG |
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | Tactical Opportunities Fund’s investment, alongside investments from CIMB Bank (Labuan Offshore branch) and City Developments (CDL) in a platform that will invest in the cashflows of CDL’s properties in Sentosa Cove, Singapore called the Quayside Collection | S$367 million ($277.7 million) | Tactical Opportunities Fund | Anthony King (Partner) |
WongPartnership | Keppel DC REIT’s IPO on the SGX | S$512.9 million (~$390.64 million) | Joint bookrunners and underwriters: 1.DBS Bank Ltd 2.Standard Chartered Securities (Singapore) Pte Ltd 3.Credit Suisse (Singapore) Ltd 4.Deutsche Bank AG (SG branch) 5.Goldman Sachs (Singapore) Pte Ltd | Rachel Eng (Joint managing partner)
Colin Ong, Tan Teck Howe (Partners) |
WongPartnership | UOL Treasury Services’ establishment of its multicurrency MTN programme | S$1 billion ($799.8 million) | UOL Treasury Services | Goh Gin Nee (Partner) |
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Jurisdiction – Thailand
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Allen & Overy | Thai Union Frozen Products’ acquisition of Bumble Bee Seafoods | $1.51 billion | Thai Union Frozen Products Public Company Ltd | Eric Shube, Ian Powell Suparerk Auychai (Partners)
Nick Marchica (Senior associate)
Natalie Montano (Associate)
Fiona Cumming (Consultant) |
Sullivan & Cromwell | Thai Union Frozen Products’ acquisition of Bumble Bee Seafoods | $1.51 billion | Lion Capital | Krishna Veeraraghavan (NY Partner) |
[1] * denotes that the three firms, Allen & Gledhill, Ali Budiardjo Nugroho Reksodiputro and Rahmat Lim & Partners, jointly advised UTAC Holdings on the deal.
