Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Herbert Smith Freehills

Strategic merger of Hello Axiata Co Ltd and Latelz Co Ltd

$180 million

Axiata Group Berhad

Veronica O'Shea, Brian Scott (Partners), Mark Robinson (Senior TMT consultant), Alexis Papasolomontos, Rodney Edgerton (Senior associates), Rebecca Cochrane, Anna Morgan, Lucy Pegler (Associates)

Sciaroni & Associates

Strategic merger of Hello Axiata Co Ltd and Latelz Co Ltd

$180 million

Axiata Group Berhad

VDB Loi (Cambodian law)

Strategic merger of Hello Axiata Co Ltd and Latelz Co Ltd

$180 million

Latelz Co Ltd

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Amarchands & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co (Indian law)

Sale offer by Adani Agro Pvt Ltd of shares in Adani Enterprises Ltd

$35 million

Morgan Stanley India Co Pvt Ltd

Crawford Bayley & Co (Indian counsel)

Placement of equity shares of IndusInd Bank Ltd

Rs. 2,000 crore (Approximately $370 million)

Issuer –

IndusInd Bank Ltd

Dorsey & Whitney (International legal counsel)

Placement of equity shares of IndusInd Bank Ltd

Rs. 2,000 crore (Approximately $370 million)

Book running lead managers –

1.Morgan Stanley India

2.JM Financial

3.CLSA India

4.HSBC Securities and Capital Markets India

Jones Day

Sale offer by Adani Agro Pvt Ltd of shares in Adani Enterprises Ltd

$35 million

Morgan Stanley India Co Pvt Ltd

Manoj Bhargava (Partner), Karun Cariappa (Associate)

Jones Day

Regulation S qualified institutions placement by Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Ltd

$55 million

1.Kotak Mahindra Capital Co Ltd

2.JM Financial Institutional Securities Pvt Ltd

3.Axis Capital Ltd

Manoj Bhargava (Partner), Nikhil Naredi (Associate)

K Law

IvyCap Ventures Trust’s private equity investment in RML Information Services Pvt Ltd

IvyCap Ventures Trust

Praveen Raju (Partner), Sanket Sethia (Associate partner), Gaurav Shrawat (Senior associate), Sunayana Bose (Associate)

Slaughter and May

Mylan, Inc’s acquisition of Agila Specialties Pvt Ltd from Strides Arcolab Ltd

$1.6 billion

Mylan, Inc

Gary Eaborn (Partner)

S&R Associates (Indian law)

Placement of equity shares of IndusInd Bank Ltd

Rs. 2,000 crore (Approximately $370 million)

Book running lead managers –

1.Morgan Stanley India

2.JM Financial

3.CLSA India

4.HSBC Securities and Capital Markets India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Jones Day

Launch of Bridge Advisory Services’ first project, Teak Tree Investments

Bridge Advisory Services

David Longstaff, Carolyn McNabb (Partners), Nikhil Gore (Associate)

Shook Lin & Bok

Acquisition of Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd by Heineken International B.V.

S$7.9 billion ($6.4 billion)

Independent financial adviser to Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd –

UBS AG, Singapore Branch

Michelle Phang, Ho Ying Ming (Partners)

Shook Lin & Bok

Voluntary conditional cash offer for Fraser and Neave Ltd by OUE Baytown Pte Ltd

S$13.1 billion ($10.6 billion)

Independent financial adviser to Fraser and Neave Ltd –

J.P. Morgan (S.E.A.) Ltd

David Chong, Teo Yi Jing (Partners)

Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice

16-ship facility to Epic Pantheon International

1.DVB Group Merchant Bank (Asia) Ltd

2.Dekabank Deutsche Girozentrale

Goh Mei Lin (Partner), Lizzie Roe, Clarence Ho, Angelique Kounis (Associates)

Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice

Senior loan facility to Vision Drilling Pte Ltd for the financing of the "Dynamic Vision" jack-up rig

$135 million

1.Standard Chartered Bank

2.DVB Group Merchant Bank (Asia) Ltd

3.ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Singapore Branch

Simon Petch (Partner)

Watson, Farley & Williams

Financing of two PSVs and two OSRVs for Nautilus Marine /Vega Offshore

$38.22 million

DVB Merchant Bank (Asia) Ltd

Simon Petch (Partner), Lizzie Roe (Associate)

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Clifford Chance

Two gas-fired power projects in Thailand

THB 9.75 billion ($325 million)

1.B. Grimm BIP Power Ltd

2.Bangkadi Clean Energy Ltd

Fergus Evans (Partner)