India
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
AZB & Partners | The Phoenix Mills Limited’s QIP |
| Book running lead managers: CLSA India Private Limited J.P. Morgan India Private Limited | Varoon Chandra (Partner)
Lionel D’Almeida (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | FIH Mauritius Investments Limited, HWIC Asia Fund, I Investments Limited, FIH Private Investments Ltd.’s offer to Fairfax India Holdings Corp’s shareholders to acquire up to 26% equity shares | $300 million | FIH Mauritius Investments Limited | Ashwin Ramanathan, Bhavi Sanghvi, Rushabh Maniar (Partners)
Lionel D’Almeida (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | Exit of Religare Enterprises Limited as a shareholder from ARLIC | $99.8 million | AEGON India Holding BV, AEGON Religare Life Insurance Company Limited | Samir Gandhi (Partner)
Rahul Rai (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | Acquisition of 26% shares of Grameen Capital India Limited to L&T Finance Holdings Limited |
| GCI Capital India Limited | Bahram N Vakil (Partner)
Richa Roy, Karan Nelivigi (Associates) |
AZB & Partners | AMCOR’s acquisition of 100% equity shares of Packaging India Private Limited from Essel Propack | $26.4 million | Amcor PIPL | Anind Thomas (Partner)
Niyatha Srinivasa, Vydyanathan L (Associates) |
AZB & Partners | Thermo Fisher’s acquisition of Johnson Matthey's Alfa Aesar | $405 million | Johnson Matthey PLC | Anind Thomas, Ravi Prakash (Partners)
Abe Abraham, Niyatha Srinivasa (Associates) |
AZB & Partners | HDFC Bank Limited’s issuance of QIP of equity shares and offering of ADRs | QIP: $333 million, ADRs: $1.2 billion | Book running lead managers: DSP Merrill Lynch Limited, Credit Suisse Securities (India) Private Limited, JM Financial Institutional Securities Limited, J.P. Morgan India Private Limited, Morgan Stanley India Company Private Limited, Goldman Sachs (India) Securities Private Limited, Nomura Financial Advisory And Securities (India) Private Limited, UBS Securities India Private Limited, Barclays Bank Plc. | Varoon Chandra (Partner)
Lionel D ‘Almeida (Associate) |
J. Sagar Associates | Reliance Communications Limited issuance of 6.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2020 | $300 million | Joint Lead Managers: DBS Bank Ltd., Standard Chartered Bank | Dina Wadia, Uttara Kolhatkar (Partners)
Mazahir Bootwala, Harshad Vaswani (Associates) |
J. Sagar Associates | Bharat Petroleum’s issuance of 4 % Notes due 2025 under its Medium Term Note Programme | $500 million | Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited | Dina Wadia, Uttara Kolhatkar (Partners) |
J. Sagar Associates | Reliance Industries Limited’s issuance of 5% Senior unsecured Callable Notes due 2035 | $200 million | Joint Bookrunners: Deutsche Bank A.G., HSBC Bank (Taiwan) Ltd., and Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc.
| Dina Wadia, Uttara Kolhatkar (Partners)
Shaswata Dutta, Kartikeya Dar (Associates) |
J. Sagar Associates | Mann & Hummel’s exit from JV with Bosch |
| Mann & Hummel Filter Private Limited | Sajai Singh, Seema Sukumar (Partners)
Vishnu Nair, Rakesh Warrier (Associates) |
J. Sagar Associates | Inclusive Ventures’ investment into Rural Shores Business Services Private Limited |
| Inclusive Ventures Limited | Sajai Singh, Probir Roy Chowdhury (Partners)
Sherill Pal, Yajas Setlur (Associates) |
Khaitan & Co | TATRAVAGÓNKA’s acquisition of up to 50% of Jupiter Wagons Ltd and upto 50% of Jupiter Alloys and Steel (India) |
| TATRAVAGÓNKA a.s. | Kartick Maheshwari, Yigal Gabriel (Associate Partners)
Kinshuk Jhunjhunwala (Senior Associate)
Nayantara Kutty, Rohan Singh, Rohini Bhandari (Associates) |
Khaitan & Co | Shinano Retail’s offer for sale of 32.4 million equity shares | $28.6 million | Shinano Retail Private Limited | Sudhir Bassi (Executive Director)
Madhur Kohli (Associate Partner) |
Khaitan & Co | Sale of 100% stake of IL&FS Milestone Realty Advisors and Hindustan Construction Company Limited in VCCPL to Blackstone Group | $165 million | IL&FS Milestone Realty Advisors Private Limited | Haigreve Khaitan, Abhishek Sharma (Partners)
Amit Wadhwani (Principal Associate)
Rohini Bhandari (Associate) |
Khaitan & Co | Subscription of convertible preference shares of Mswipe Technologies Private Limited | $25 million | Meru Capital Group, LP | Joyjyoti Misra, (Partner)
Arjun Rajgopal (Principal Associate)
Nidhi Killawala (Associate) |
Majmudar & Partners | Hareon Solar’s joint venture agreement with ReNew Power Ventures Private Limited to develop a solar project of 72 MW capacity |
| Hareon Solar Technology Company Limited | Rukshad Davar (Partner) |
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices | Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited’s acquisition of Sarthak Entertainment Private Limited | $18 million | Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited | Deepak THM (Partner)
Vivek Pareek, Vidushi Gupta, Varun Natarajan (Associates) |
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | Acquisition of Valcambi SA by Rajesh Exports Limited | $400 million | Newmont Mineral Holdings BV | Akila Agrawal (Partner)
Sumit Sinha, Rachita Bhat (Associates) |
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | Preferential allotment of equity shares by KDDL Limited to SAIF India V FII Holdings Limited | $300 million | SAIF India V FII Holdings Limited | Puja Sondhi (Partner)
Aayush Kapoor, Sumeet Singh, Sushrut Biswal, Vasundhara Garg (Associates) |
Singapore
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Allen & Gledhill | East Coast (Cecil) Investment’s divestment of an office building | S$240 million ($175 million) | East Coast (Cecil) Investment Pte. Ltd. | Tan Boon Wah, Shalene Jin (Partners) |
WongPartnership | CW Group Holdings Limited, CW Advanced Technologies Limited and CW Advanced Technologies Pte. Ltd.’s establishment of multicurrency debt issuance programme | S$500 million ($365 million) | CW Group Holdings Limited, CW Advanced Technologies Limited, CW Advanced Technologies Pte. Ltd. | Hui Choon Yuen (Partner)
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WongPartnership | Century Sunshine Group Holdings Limited’s establishment of million multicurrency medium term note programme and subsequent issuance of 7.20% fixed rate notes due 2018 | S$300 million, S$75 million ($295 million, $54 million) | Century Sunshine Group Holdings Limited | Hui Choon Yuen, Goh Gin Nee (Partners)
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WongPartnership | Keppel Infrastructure Trust’s proposed equity fund raising exercise | S$525 million ($384 million) | Keppel Infrastructure Trust | Karen Yeoh, James Choo (Partners) |
