Jurisdiction – India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co

Navayuga Road Projects’ issuance of debentures to Piramal Enterprises

Rs. 550 crores

($97 million)

Piramal Enterprises Ltd

Santosh Janakiram (Partner)

AZB & Partners

IMS Health’s acquisition of 360 LLC’s entire equity interest

Confidential

IMS Health Inc

Darshika Kothari

(Partner)

 

Abe Abraham,

Rinki Ganguli

(Associates)

AZB & Partners

Newbridge India Investments II’s sale of 22,847,460 shares

Rs. 16 billion

($295.8 million)

Newbridge India Investments II Ltd

Shuva Mandal

(Partner)

 

Bhavi Sanghvi

(Associate)

AZB & Partners

Sangita Jindal’s offer for sale of her 2,82,30,000 equity shares in JSW Energy

Rs. 1.73 billion

($31 million)

Brokers:

1.Macquarie Capital Securities (India)

2. Fortune Equity Brokers (India)

3. SBICAP Securities

Varoon Chandra

(Partner)

 

Lionel Almeida

(Associate)

AZB & Partners

Styrolution’s offer for sale of its 21,67,500 equity shares in Styrolution (ABS) India

Rs. 860 million

($15 million)

Citigroup Global Markets India Pvt Ltd

(Broker)

Varoon Chandra

(Partner)

 

Lionel Almeida

(Associate)

AZB & Partners

Tata Autocomp Systems’ sale of 50 percent stake to Johnson Controls Auto India

Confidential

Tata Autocomp Systems Ltd

Ashwin Ramanathan

(Partner)

 

Vijay Manjrekar

(Associate)

AZB & Partners

Tata Technologies’ acquisition of Cambric Holdings

Confidential

Tata Technologies Ltd

Ashwin Ramanathan

(Partner)

 

Ratnadeep Roychowdhury

(Associate)

Desai & Diwanji

Navis Asia VI Management’s

acquisition of majority equity interest in

TES-Envirocorp

Undisclosed

Navis Asia VI

Management Co Ltd

Apurva Diwanji

(Partner)

Khaitan & Co

Demerger of Orient Paper’s cement division into group company, Orient Cement

Undisclosed

Orient Paper and Industries Ltd

Haigreve Khaitan,

Rabindra Jhunjhunwala

(Partners)

Khaitan & Co

Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India’s institutional placement programme

$19 million

Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Ltd

Nikhilesh Panchal

(Partner)

Khaitan & Co

Navayuga Road Projects’ issuance of debentures to Piramal Enterprises

Rs. 550 crores

($97 million)

Navayuga Road Projects Pvt Ltd

Upendra Joshi

(Partner)

Udwadia Udeshi & Argus Partners

 

Cordlife Group’s

acquisition of Cordlife’s cord blood and cord tissue banking  businesses

A$5.5 million

($5.3 million)

Cordlife Group Ltd

Ramya Hariharan

(Partner)

 

Deepaloke Chatterjee

(Associate)

Jurisdiction – Indonesia

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

DNC Advocates

Cordlife Group’s

acquisition of Cordlife’s cord blood and cord tissue banking  businesses

A$5.5 million

($5.3 million)

Cordlife Group Ltd

Handika Tjen

(Advocate)

Soewito Suhardiman Eddymurthy Kardono

BlueScope Steel’s joint venture with Nippon Steel Corp

$1.3 billion

BlueScope Steel Ltd

Ira Eddymurthy, Fahrul Yusuf

(Partners)

Jurisdiction – Malaysia

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Cheang & Ariff

Navis Asia VI Management’s

acquisition of majority equity interest in

TES-Envirocorp

Undisclosed

Navis Asia VI

Management Co Ltd

Yoon Ming Sun (Partner)

Jurisdiction – Philippines

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Co Ferrer & Ang-Co Law Offices:

Cordlife Group’s

acquisition of Cordlife’s cord blood and cord tissue banking  businesses

A$5.5 million

($5.3 million)

Cordlife Group Ltd

Maria Angeli Ferrer

(Partner)

Jurisdiction – Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Gledhill

Guocoland Group's first issue of 4.7 percent perpetual securities under MTN programme

S$200 million

($159 million)

1.DBS Bank Ltd

2.HSBC Ltd

 

Allen & Gledhill

Navis Asia VI Management’s

acquisition of majority equity interest in

TES-Envirocorp

Undisclosed

TES-Envirocorp Pte Ltd

Oh Hsiu-hau,

Lauren Chung Su-Ling

(Partners)

Clifford Chance

Asian Pay Television Trust’s IPO

$1.1 billion

Asian Pay Television Trust

Johannes Juette,

Raymond Tong

(Partners)

 

Montse Ferrer

(Associate)

Clyde & Co

Ocean Dial Investment Company Singapore’s acquisition of Ocean Dial Group’s entire issued share capital from Caledonia Investments

Undisclosed

Caledonia Investments

 

Colin Ng & Partners

Ocean Dial Investment Company Singapore’s acquisition of Ocean Dial Group’s entire issued share capital from Caledonia Investments

Undisclosed

Ocean Dial Investment Company Singapore Pte Ltd

Bill Jamieson (Partner)

 

Amit Ramkrishn Dhume

(Senior foreign associate)

Herbert Smith Freehills

TML Holdings’ fixed rate bond offer

S$350 million

($278 million)

Joint bookrunners and lead managers:

1. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group

2.Citigroup Global Markets Singapore 3.Deutsche Bank AG, SG branch

4.Standard Chartered Bank

Philip Lee

(Partner)

 

Gareth Deiner

(Senior associate)

 

Nupur Kant

(Associate)

Norton Rose

TML Holdings’ fixed rate bond offer

S$350 million

($278 million)

Note Trustee and Agents

 

Rajah & Tann

Guocoland Group's first issue of 4.7 percent perpetual securities under MTN programme

S$200 million

($159 million)

GuocoLand Ltd

Goh Kian Hwee, Angela Lim

(Partners)

 

Kalyn Liang,

Lim Ee Nian

(Associates)

Rajah & Tann

TML Holdings’ fixed rate bond offer

S$350 million

($278 million)

TML Holdings Pte Ltd

Abdul Jabbar Bin, Karam Din,

Lee Xin Mei

(Partners)

 

Khairil Bin Suhairee (Associate)

Shook Lin & Bok

Bon Ween Foong’s mandatory unconditional cash

offer for remaining ordinary shares in Sinobest’s capital

S$13.3 million

($11 million)

Sinobest

Gwendolyn Gn

(Partner)

Wilsons Solicitors

Ocean Dial Investment Company Singapore’s acquisition of Ocean Dial Group’s entire issued share capital from Caledonia Investments

Undisclosed

Ocean Dial

 

WongPartnership

Bon Ween Foong’s mandatory unconditional cash

offer for remaining ordinary shares in Sinobest’s capital

S$13.3 million

($11 million)

 

Asiasons WFG

Capital Pte Ltd

Andrew Ang,

Chan Sing Yee

(Partners)

WongPartnership

Cordlife Group’s

acquisition of Cordlife’s cord blood and cord tissue

banking businesses

A$5.5 million

($5.3 million)

Cordlife Group

Vivien Yui

(Partner)

WongPartnership

Navis Asia VI Management’s

acquisition of majority equity interest in

TES-Envirocorp

Undisclosed

Navis Asia VI

Management Co Ltd

Ng Wai King

(Joint managing partner)

 

Tay Liam Keng,

Tan Teck Howe,

Lam Chung Nian

(Partners)

WongPartnership

Proposed voluntary delisting of Pan Pacific Hotels Group by UOL Group

S$1.5

billion

($1.19 billion)

1.UOL Group Ltd

2.Pan Pacific Hotels

Group Ltd

Ng Wai King

(Joint managing partner)

 

Andrew Ang,

Milton Toon

(Partners)

Jurisdiction – Vietnam

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Overy

Warburg Pincus Consortium’s investment in and partnership with Vingroup Joint Stock Co

$200 million

Vingroup JSC

Duc Tran

(Partner)

 

Jeff Olson

(Senior associate)

 

Mai Pham,

Phuong Tran,

Anh Le

(Associates)

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Warburg Pincus Consortium’s investment in and partnership with Vingroup Joint Stock Co

$200 million

Warburg Pincus

Tony Foster,

Edward Freeman (Partners)

 

Amy Beckingham(Senior associate)

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Warburg Pincus Consortium’s investment in and partnership with Vingroup Joint Stock Co

$200 million

Vingroup JSC

 

YKVN Lawyers

Warburg Pincus Consortium’s investment in and partnership with Vingroup Joint Stock Co

$200 million

Warburg Pincus

 

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

 

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