Jurisdiction – India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

ALMT Legal

McCann Erickson (India) Pvt Ltd’s acquisition of majority ownership in End to End Marketing Solutions Pvt Ltd

Undisclosed

End to End Marketing Solutions Pvt Ltd

Dhanya Menon (Partner)

 

Arindam Basu (Senior associate )

 

Pallavi Bhogle (Associate)

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co.

Aditya Birla Nuvo’s acquisition of Panta-loons Format Business

Undisclosed

Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd

Cyril Shroff

(Mumbai managing partner)

 

 Nivedita Rao,

Sharad Mathkar

(Partners)

 

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co.

Network18 Holdings and OCP Asia’s investment in TV18 HSN Holdings

$30 million

1.Network18 Holdings Ltd

2. TV18 HSN Holdings Ltd

Ravindra Bandhakavi,

Prashant Gupta (Partners)

 

Vishwanath Pratap Singh

(Senior associate)

 

Jyoti Rani

(Associate)

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co.

Pearson (Singapore) Pte’s and Pearson Overseas Holding’s purchase of 50 percent stake in Educomp Higher Initiatives held by Educomp Solutions

Confidential

1.Educomp Solutions Ltd

2.Educomp Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

 

 

Kalpataru Tripathy,

Ranjan Negi

(Partners)

 

Promode Murugavelu

(Senior associate)

 

Navin Kumar, Natasha Thakur

(Associates)

AZB & Partners

Aditya Birla Nuvo’s acquisition of Panta-loons Format Business

Undisclosed

Future Retail Ltd

Shuva Mandal

(Partner)

Desai & Diwanji

Herba Foods’ proposed acquisition of Taraori Rice Mills Pvt Ltd

Undisclosed

Olam Agro India Ltd

 

J. Sagar Associates

Berkshire Hathaway Inc and 3G Special Situations Fund III L.P’s proposed global acquisition of H.J. Heinz Co

Undisclosed

1.Berkshire Hathaway Inc

2.3G Special Situations Fund III L.P.

Farhad Sorabjee,

Amitabh Kumar

(Partners)

 

Reeti Choudhary

(Senior associate)

 

Awantika Manohar, Sneha Sheth

(Associates)

J. Sagar Associates

Herba Foods’ proposed acquisition of Taraori Rice Mills Pvt Ltd

Undisclosed

Herba Foods S.L.U.

Amitabh Kumar

(Partner)

 

Gautam Shahi

(Senior associate)

 

Awantika Manohar, Lagna Panda

(Associates)

J. Sagar Associates

McCann Erickson (India) Pvt Ltd’s acquisition of majority ownership in End to End Marketing Solutions Pvt Ltd

Undisclosed

McCann Erickson (India) Pvt Ltd

Sandeep Mehta

(Partner)

 

Aditi Manchanda, Raji Radhakrishnan (Senior associates )

 

Medha Deo

(Associate)

J. Sagar Associates

Sale of Quest Diagnostics’ HemoCue products-related diagnostic kits business to DHR Holding India

$300 million

Radiometer India

Sandeep Mehta (Partner)

K Law

Publicis Groupe’s acquisition of Neev Information Techno-logies

Undisclosed

Neev Information Technologies Pvt Ltd, its prom-oters and existing investors, Basil Partners

Shwetambari Rao

(Partner)

 

Mayukh Datta,

Arjun Sharma

(Associates)

Khaitan & Co

Kabaya Industry’s acqu-isition of 50 percent stake in Conmat Systems

Undisclosed

Kayaba Industry Co Ltd

Zakir Merchant

(Partner)

 

Avaantika Kakkar (Counsel)

Khaitan & Co

Sale of Quest Diagnostics’ HemoCue products-related diagnostic kits business to DHR Holding India

$300 million

Quest Diagn-ostics Inc

Rabindra Jhunjhunwala

(Partner)

 

Daksha Baxi,

Dinesh Kumar Agrawal

(Executive directors)

Platinum Partners

Pearson (Singapore) Pte’s and Pearson Overseas Holding’s purchase of 50 percent stake in Educomp Higher Initiatives held by Educomp Solutions

Confidential

1.Pearson (Singapore) Pte Ltd

2.Pearson Overseas Holding Ltd

 

Rajani Asso-ciates

Sale of Quest Diagnostics’ HemoCue products-related diagnostic kits business to DHR Holding India

$300 million

Conmat Systems Pvt Ltd

Reena Grover

(Partner)

Trilegal

Publicis Groupe’s acquisition of Neev Information Techno-logies

Undisclosed

Publicis Groupe

Ashwyn Misra

(Partner)

 

Shamim Shah

(Senior associate)

White & Case

Network18 Holdings and OCP Asia’s investment in TV18 HSN Holdings

$30 million

OCP Asia Ltd

Anthony Vasey

(Partner)

Jurisdiction – Indonesia

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Gledhill

PT Alam Sutera Realty’s issue of 6.95 percent senior notes due 2020

$235 million

PT Alam Sutera Realty Tbk

Glenn David Foo

(Partner)

Jurisdiction – Thailand

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Clifford Chance

BTS Rail Mass Transit Growth Infrastructure Fund (BTSGIF), Thailand IPO

$1.4 billion (Bt41.5 billion)

BBL Asset Management Co Ltd

Fergus Evans

(Managing partner: Bangkok)

 

Crawford Brickley

(Partner)

 

Doungporn Prasertsomsuk,

Keerati Kanjanawenich (Counsel)  

 

Thomas Kollar

(Foreign legal consultant)

Jurisdiction – Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Gledhill

CapitaLand’s restruct-

uring of Surbana Corp’s

residential developme-nt and consultancy

businesses

S$70.1 million

($57 million)

Temasek Holdings (Pvt) Ltd

Lee Kee Yeng

(Partner)

Allen & Gledhill

Flextronics International’s 4.625 percent notes (due 2020) and 5 percent notes (due 2023) offer

$500 million for each

 

Flextronics International Ltd

Tan Tze Gay,

Bernie Lee,

Sunit Chhabra

(Partners)

Allen & Gledhill

Parkway Pantai’s facility agreement for term and revolving loan facilities

S$500 million ($404 million),

S$250 million ($202 million)

Parkway Pantai Ltd

Julie Sim

(Partner)

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Pearson (Singapore) Pte’s and Pearson Overseas Holding’s purchase of 50 percent stake in Educomp Higher Initiatives held by Educomp Solutions

Confidential

1.Pearson (Singapore) Pte Ltd

2.Pearson Overseas Holding Ltd

 

Herbert Smith Freehills

Tata Communications (Netherlands) B.V’s issue of 4.25 percent notes due 2016

S$250 million

($202 milli-on)

Joint lead managers: 1.Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd

2.DBS Bank Ltd

3.The Royal Bank of Scotland 4.Standard Chartered Bank

Nimi Patel

(Head of India grp)

 

Philip Lee

(Partner)

 

Felipe Duque,

Simon Barrell

(Senior associates)

 

Nupur Kant,

Yuji Huang

(Associates)

Tan Kok Quan Partnership

Pearson (Singapore) Pte’s and Pearson Overseas Holding’s purchase of 50 percent stake in Educomp Higher Initiatives held by Educomp Solutions

Confidential

Educomp Solutions Ltd

 

WongPartnership

CapitaLand’s restruct-

uring of Surbana Corp’s

residential developme-nt and consultancy

businesses

S$70.1 million

($57 million)

CapitaLand Ltd

Chan Sing Yee,

Lau Wee Liat,

Lam Chung Nian

(Partners)

WongPartnership

Changi Airport Group’s development of Singapore Changi Airport’sTerminal 4

S$1.3 billion

($1.05 billi-on)

Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Christopher Chuah,

Lesley Tan

(Partners)

WongPartnership

Keppel GMTN euro MTN programme and issue of floating

rate notes due 2020

$2 billion

Keppel GMTN Pte Ltd

Hui Choon Yuen,

Khoo Yuh Huey

(Partners)

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

 

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