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)
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