Jurisdiction - India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co

Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways

Confidential

Blackstone

Raghubir Menon (Partner)

 

Shubhangi Pathak, Ekta Gupta, Prashant Sirohi, (Senior associates)

 

Anirban Bhattacharya,

Neha Udeshi,

Anisha Gupta, Taranjeet Singh (Associates)

AZB & Partners

Reliance Industries Ltd’s offering of 5.875 percent senior perpetual notes

$800 million

Reliance Industries Ltd

 

HSA Advocates

Sale and transfer of its Delhi Territory Business by Pearl Drinks Ltd to Varun Beverages Ltd

Undisclosed

Pearl Drinks Ltd

Aparajit Bhattacharya (Partner)

 

Harvinder Singh (Partner designate)

 

Sumedha Dutta (Senior associate)

J. Sagar Associates

Reliance Industries Ltd’s offering of 5.875 percent senior perpetual notes

$800 million

1.Merrill Lynch

2.Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 3.Citigroup Global Markets Inc

4.The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd

5.Barclays Bank PLC

5.Deutsche Bank AG (SG branch)

6.J.P. Morgan Securities plc

7.The Royal Bank of Scotland

Dina Wadia

(Partner)

 

 Uttara Kolhatkar

(Senior associate)

J. Sagar Associates

Sale and transfer of its Delhi Territory Business by Pearl Drinks Ltd to Varun Beverages Ltd

Undisclosed

PepsiCo

Jyoti Sagar

(Founding partner)

 

Upendra Nath Sharma

(Partner)

 

Nitesh Bhasin (Senior associate)

K Law

Sale of entire equity of HealthSprint Networks’ promoters in it to venture capital funds, Nirvana Digital India Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners

Confidential

HealthSprint Networks Pvt Ltd and promoters

Shwetambari Rao (Partner)

 

Abhinav Singh (Senior associate)

 

Abhirup Ghosh (Associate)

Nishith Desai Associates

Sale of entire equity of HealthSprint Networks’ promoters in it to venture capital funds, Nirvana Digital India Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners

Confidential

1. Nirvana Digital India Fund

2. Bessemer Venture Partners

Nishchal Joshipura (Partner)

 

Karan Kalra,

Sahil Shah (Associates)

Jurisdiction - Maldives

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Conyers Dill & Pearman (Cayman) Ltd

(Cayman Islands counsel)

Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways

Confidential

Lenders:

1.HSBC

2.Deutsche Bank

 

Freshfields (Financing counsel)

Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways

Confidential

Blackstone

Lorena Wong

(Trainee solicitor)

 

Angus Henesey Lennox (Associate)

Linklaters

Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways

Confidential

1.Maldivian Air Taxi 2.Trans Maldivian Airways

David Martin (Partner)

 

Mantraraj Budhdev

(Associate)

Premier Chambers (Maldivian counsel)

Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways

Confidential

Lenders:

1.HSBC

2.Deutsche Bank

 

Shah Hussain & Co Barristers & Attorneys (Maldivian counsel)

Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways

Confidential

Blackstone

Shuaib M. Shah (Founding partner)

Walkers (Cayman Islands counsel)

Blackstone’s acquisition of majority stake in seaplane operating companies, Maldivian Air Taxi and Trans Maldivian Airways

Confidential

Blackstone

Ramesh Maharaj (Partner)

 

Tracey Touhey (Associate)

Jurisdiction - Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Rodyk & Davidson LLP

Grant of restructured credit facilities to Cambridge Industrial Trust Management

S$470 million ($380.54 million)

National Australia Bank-led lenders

Lee Ho Wah (Partner)

 

Bernice Ong,

Claire Wu

(Senior associates)

 

 Wong Cui Lian (Associate)

Rodyk & Davidson LLP

Sing Holdings Ltd’s acquisition of a 99-year leasehold residential land at Punggol Field Walk/Punggol East

S$162.1 million ($131.24 million)

Coral Edge Development Pte Ltd

Norman Ho (Partner)

 

Jeannette Lim (Senior associate)

 

Goh Chern Fern (Associate)

Rodyk & Davidson LLP

Sing Holdings Ltd’s acquisition of a 99-year leasehold residential land at Punggol Field Walk/Punggol East

S$162.1 million ($131.24 million)

Sing Holdings Ltd

Norman Ho (Partner)

 

Jeannette Lim (Senior associate)

 

Goh Chern Fern (Associate)

Watson, Farley & Williams LLP

Sale and lease back transaction of maritime containers’ portfolio for China Shipping Container Lines and CDB Leasing

$358.6 million

Co-lenders:

1.DVB Group Merchant Bank (Asia) Ltd

2.China Development Bank

Mehraab Nazir, Peter Chean,

Madeline Leong (Partners)

 

Lizzie Roe (Associate)

 

Janice Lee (Solicitor)

WongPartnership LLP

JBE Holdings

Pte Ltd’s JV with Keong Hong Construction Pte Ltd to set up a joint-venture company, Oasis Development

Pte Ltd

Undisclosed

JBE Holdings Pte

Ltd

Vivien Yui,

Annabel Kang (Partners)

WongPartnership LLP

United Overseas Bank Ltd’s amendment and

restatement of facility

agreement pertaining to financing granted to Hotel Plaza Property (Singapore) Pte Ltd

S$145 million ($117.40 million)

United Overseas

Bank Ltd

Christy Lim,

Dorothy Marie Ng

(Partners)

Jurisdiction - Vietnam

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Hogan Lovells

Vietnam Airlines’ ECA financing of five Airbus A321 aircraft

Undisclosed

Vietnam Airlines

Richard Jadot

(Paris partner)

 

Nasir PKM Abdul (Of Counsel, Ho Chi Minh City)

 

Richard Goss (London senior associate)

 

Chau Nguyen

(Ho Chi Minh City associate)

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

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