Jurisdiction - India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Addleshaw Goddard LLP (UK law counsel)

Dhunseri’s acquisition of 100 percent stake in Makandi Tea & Coffee Estates Ltd and Kawalazi Estate Company Ltd

$22 million

Dhunseri Petrochem & Tea Ltd

Andrew Rosling (Partner)

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co

ABC India Ltd’s sale of 44 percent of Nissin ABC Logistics Private Ltd’s stake to Nissin Corporation (Japan)

Confidential

ABC India Ltd and its group companies

Kalpataru Tripathy

(Partner)

Abhishek Guha (Principal associate) Saurya Bhattacharya

(Senior associate)

Roopal Banthia (Associate)

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co (India counsel)

DISA India Ltd’s offer for sale of shares

Rs. 40 to 45 crore ($7.20 to  $8.10 million)

DISA India Ltd

Kalpataru Tripathy (Partner)

Abhishek Guha, Aarti Joshi

(Principal associate) Ramanuj Gopalan (Principal associate designate)

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co

India Agri Business Fund Ltd’s and its employee trust, REAL Trust’s) investment in Prabhat Dairy Private Ltd

Confidential

India Agri Business Fund Ltd

Raghubir Menon (Partner)

Natashaa Shroff, Rishi Anand

(Senior associates) Neha Udeshi, Anisha Gupta, Taranjeet Singh

(Associates)

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co (India counsel)

Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services Ltd’s qualified institutional placement of equity shares

$160 million

Placement agents:

1.Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Ltd

2. Citigroup Global Markets India Private Ltd

3. Deutsche Equities India Private Ltd

4. HSBC Securities and Capital Markets (India) Pvt Ltd

5. JM Financial Institutional Securities Pvt Ltd

Yash J. Ashar (Partner)

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (International counsel)

Yazaki Corp’s 100 percent buyout of Tata AutoComp Systems Ltd

Confidential

Yazaki Corp

Ryo Kotour

(Partner)

AZB & Partners

PineBridge Investments Japan’s acquisition of AIG Capital India Pvt Ltd

Confidential

PineBridge Investments Japan Co Ltd

Shuva Mandal (Partner)

Rushabh Maniar

(Associate)

AZB & Partners

Sintex Industries’ issue of 7.50 percent foreign currency convertible bonds

Rs.  7.72 billion ($140 million)

Sintex Industries Ltd

Varoon Chandra (Partner)

Kaushik Mukherjee, Lionel D’Almeida (Associates)

AZB & Partners

Sintex Industries’ placement of qualified institutions of about 26.5 million equity shares

Rs. 1.75 billion ($32 million)

Sintex Industries Ltd

Varoon Chandra (Partner)

Kaushik Mukherjee, Lionel D’Almeida (Associates)

AZB & Partners

Yazaki Corp’s 100 percent buyout of Tata AutoComp Systems Ltd

Confidential

Tata AutoComp Systems Ltd

Ashwin Ramanathan (Partner)

Crawford Bayley

India Agri Business Fund Ltd’s and its employee trust, REAL Trust’s) investment in Prabhat Dairy Private Ltd

Confidential

Prabhat Dairy Private Ltd

Sanjay Ashar

(Partner)

DSK Legal

Larsen & Toubro Ltd’s proposed sale of its medical equipments’ division to Skanray Healthcare Private Ltd

Confidential

Skanray Healthcare Private Ltd

Nirav Shah (Partner)

Fox Mandal

ABC India Ltd’s sale of 44 percent of Nissin ABC Logistics Private Ltd’s stake to Nissin Corporation (Japan)

Confidential

Nissin Corporation

Shourya Mandal (Partner)

Fox Williams LLP (UK law counsel)

Dhunseri’s acquisition of 100 percent stake in Makandi Tea & Coffee Estates Ltd and Kawalazi Estate Company Ltd

$22 million

Dhunseri Petrochem & Tea Ltd

 

Jones Day (International counsel)

Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services Ltd’s qualified institutional placement of equity shares

$160 million

Placement agents:

1.Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Ltd

2. Citigroup Global Markets India Private Ltd

3. Deutsche Equities India Private Ltd

4. HSBC Securities and Capital Markets (India) Pvt Ltd

5. JM Financial Institutional Securities Pvt Ltd

Manoj Bhargava (Partner)

Nikhil Naredi, Kevin Khan (Associates)

K Law

Larsen & Toubro Ltd’s proposed sale of its medical equipments’ division to Skanray Healthcare Private Ltd

Confidential

Larsen & Toubro Ltd

Naina Krishna Murthy (Managing partner) Praveen Raju (Partner) Sankar Swamy (Associate partner)

Aparnaa Bhalotia (Associate)

Khaitan & Co

Dhunseri’s acquisition of 100 percent stake in Makandi Tea & Coffee Estates Ltd and Kawalazi Estate Company Ltd

$22 million

Dhunseri Petrochem & Tea Ltd

Haigreve Khaitan (Partner)

Daksha Baxi (Executive Director - Direct Tax)

Khaitan & Co (India counsel)

Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services Ltd’s qualified institutional placement of equity shares

$160 million

Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services Ltd

Nikhilesh Panchal (Partner)

Khaitan & Co

Yazaki Corp’s 100 percent buyout of Tata AutoComp Systems Ltd

Confidential

Yazaki Corp

Haigreve Khaitan

Zakir Merchant (Partners)

Sacranie, Gow & Company (Malawi law counsel)

Dhunseri’s acquisition of 100 percent stake in Makandi Tea & Coffee Estates Ltd and Kawalazi Estate Company Ltd

$22 million

Dhunseri Petrochem & Tea Ltd

Shabir Latif

(Partner)

Jurisdiction - Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Gledhill LLP

Asia Systems Ltd’s acquisition of controlling stake in NeraTel

S$177.3 million ($145.73 million)

NeraTel

Christopher Ong (Partner)

Allen & Gledhill LLP

Voluntary conditional cash

offer by F&B Asia Ventures

Ltd for all the issued and

paid-up ordinary shares in Harry’s Holdings’ capital

 

S$21.85 million ($17.96 million)

Everstone

Capital Partners II LLC (Parent firm of offeror)

Christopher Koh (Partner)

Michelle Fum (Senior associate)

Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow

United Overseas Bank acquisition of ING Groep’s Thailand-based funds management unit

$12.77 million

United Overseas Bank

Jon Worsfold (Partner)

Drew & Napier

Overseas Union Enterprise Ltd’s bid for Fraser & Neave Ltd

$10.7 billion

Overseas Union Enterprise Ltd

Gary Pryke, Ralph Lim (Partners)

Rodyk & Davidson

Heineken’s acquisition of Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd

S$ 8.1 billion ($6.66 billion)

Heineken International B.V. 

Gerald Singham, Mark Tan (Partner) Seow Jia Xian (Senior associate) Soumya Hariharan (Foreign lawyer)

Stamford Law Corporation

Overseas Union Enterprise Ltd’s bid for Fraser & Neave Ltd

$10.7 billion

Fraser & Neave Ltd

Min tze-Lean, Lian Seng Yap (Partners)

WongPartnership

Asia Systems Ltd’s acquisition of controlling stake in NeraTel

S$177.3 million ($145.73 million)

Asia Systems Ltd

Ng Wai King,

Andrew Ang,

Milton Toon,

Christy Lim,

Low Kah Keong (Partners)

WongPartnership

Voluntary conditional cash

offer by F&B Asia Ventures

Ltd for all the issued and

paid-up ordinary shares in Harry’s Holdings’ capital

 

S$21.85 million ($17.96 million)

Harry's Holdings Ltd (Company)

Andrew Ang

Chan Sing Yee (Partners)

Jurisdiction - Thailand

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Chandler & Thong-ek Law Offices

Total Access Communication’s loan acquisition to pay for its 3G licence         

$1.33 billion

Bangkok Bank

 

Linklaters

Total Access Communication’s loan acquisition to pay for its 3G licence         

$1.33 billion

1. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, UFJ

2. Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd

3. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp

 

 

Norton Rose

Total Access Communication’s loan acquisition to pay for its 3G licence

$1.33 billion

Total Access Communication

Somboon Kitiyansub (Partner)

Jurisdiction - Vietnam

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade’s on a major IT agreement with Fidelity Information Services

Undisclosed

Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade

Thierry Dor (Partner)

Can P. Nguyen, Nguyen Huyen Tram (Associates)

Where exact value is not known ALB will use an approximate value based on available market data or coverage.

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