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)

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

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