Jurisdiction – India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Advokatfirman Cederquist

Standard Chartered Bank’s credit facility grant to Domsjö Fabriker AB

$39 million

Standard Chartered Bank

 

Allen & Overy

Standard Chartered Bank’s credit facility grant to Domsjö Fabriker AB

$39 million

Standard Chartered Bank

 

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co

Issue of secured, redeemable, non-convertible debentures GR Infraprojects

Rs. 80 crores

($13.44 million)

Arranger and Initial purchaser:

Standard Chartered Bank

Pranav Sharma (Partner)

 

Monal Mukherjee (Principal associate)

 

Vivek Mishra (Associate)

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ acquisition of Concast India

Confidential

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Japan

Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia,

Pooja Mahajan,

Santosh Janakiram,

Ranjan Negi

(Partners)

 

Shubhangi Garg,

Lakshmi Prakash

(Senior associates)

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co

Standard Chartered Bank’s acquisition of Morgan Stanley’s non-institutional wealth management business in India

Confidential

Morgan Stanley

 

AZB & Partners

Bharti Airtel’s acquisition of additional 2 percent equity stake in Qualcomm India subsidiaries

Confidential

Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Asia Pacific Pte Ltd and their Indian subsidiaries

Ashwin Ramanathan

(Partner)

 

Bhavi Sanghvi, Roxanne Anderson

(Associates)

AZB & Partners

Export Import Bank of United States’ credit facility grant to MSPPL

$43 million

Mahindra Suryaprakash Pvt Ltd (MSPPL)

Sai Krishna Bharathan

(Partner)

 

 Ananya Sharma

(Senior associate)

AZB & Partners

Export Import Bank of United Statescredit facility grant to Solarfield

$28.4 million

1.Kiran Energy Solar Power Pvt Ltd

2.Solarfield Energy Two Pvt Ltd

Sai Krishna Bharathan

(Partner)

 

 Ananya Sharma

(Senior associate)

AZB & Partners

Foreign currency borrowing by Ultratech Cement from International Finance Corp

 

Rs. 2.74 billion ($50 million)

International Finance Corp

Ashwin Ramanathan

(Partner)

 

Kumarjit Ray

(Associate)

AZB & Partners

Intel Capital (Mauritius)’s acquisition of shareholdi-ng in Bright Lifecare

Confidential

Intel Capital (Mauritius) Ltd

Gautam Saha

(Partner)

 

Sachin Mehta

(Associate)

AZB & Partners

Public issue of certain equity shares of Emcure Pharmaceuticals consisting of a fresh issue

Undisclosed

Blackstone GPV Capital Partners Mauritius V-C Ltd

Shuva Mandal

(Partner)

 

Bhavi Sanghvi,
Lionel D’ Almeida

(Associates)

AZB & Partners

SBI Holdings’ investment in JV company between SBI Group and Edelweiss

Rs. 4.5 billion

($75 million)

 

SBI Group, Japan

Sai Krishna Bharathan

(Partner)

 

Ananya Sharma

(Senior associate)

AZB & Partners

Staples Asia sale of its entire 39.49 percent shareholding in Staples Future to its joint venture partners, including Pantaloon Retail (India)

Rs. 1.58 billion ($26.2 million)

 

Staples Asia Investment Ltd

Ashwin Ramanathan

(Partner)

 

Roxanne Anderson

(Associate)

Baker & McKenzie

Axis Bank’s credit facility grant to Xius Holding Corp

$8.2 million

Axis Bank, Hyderabad

 

Berger Legal

Deloitte Recap’s transfer of its Recap business to Thomson Reuters (Scientific)

Confidential

Thomson Reuters

 

Desai Desai Carrimjee & Mulla

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ acquisition of Concast India

Confidential

Concast India Ltd

 

J. Sagar Associates

West Coast Port’s sale of its entire shareholding of 7.69 percent in Ocean Sparkle to Infrastructure India Holdings Fund

Rs. 734.89 million

($12.34 million)

Infrastructure India Holdings Fund

Jay Gandhi

(Partner)

Khaitan & Co

Jiangsu Jinsheng Industry Co’s acquisition of natural fibres and textile components business units from Oerlikon Corp’s textile segment

$683.4 million

Jiangsu Jinsheng Industry Co Ltd

Rabindra Jhunjhunwala

(Partner)

Khaitan & Co

Raiffeisen Bank International Finance (Hong Kong)’s loan grant  to UIL Hong Kong

$40 million

Raiffeisen Bank International AG (Beijing branch)

Devidas Banerji

(Partner)

Khaitan & Co

Srei Infrastructure Finance’s issue of secured non-convertible debentures

$24.5 million

Srei Infrastructure Finance Ltd

N.G. Khaitan

(Senior partner)

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

Deloitte Recap’s transfer of its Recap business to Thomson Reuters (Scientific)

Confidential

Deloitte Recap

 

Majmudar & Partners

Axis Bank’s credit facility grant to Xius Holding Corp

$8.2 million

Axis Bank, Hyderabad

Prashanth Sabeshan

(Partner)

SJ Berwin 

Axis Bank’s term loan facility grant to Gujarat NRE

$10 million

Axis Bank, Hong Kong

 

Trilegal

Axis Bank’s term loan facility grant to Gujarat NRE

$10 million

Axis Bank, Hong Kong

Ameya Khandge (Partner)

 

Pramit Mohanty (Senior associate)

 

 Siddharth Saxena (Associate)

Trilegal

Covidien’s corporate reorganisation involving spin-off of its Mallinckrodt pharmaceutical and imaging business into a new set of companies

Confidential

Covidien plc

Anand Prasad (Partner)

 

Dhruv Paul,

Sushmita Ganguly (Senior associates)

 

Chandini Kanwar (Associate)

 

Sameer Guha (Counsel)

Trilegal

Deloitte Recap’s transfer of its Recap business to Thomson Reuters (Scientific)

Confidential

Thomson Reuters

Delano Furtado (Partner)

 

Anant Kaushik,

Swarnima

(Senior associate)

 

Priyasha Corrie (Associate)

 

Atul Gupta

(Counsel)

Trilegal

Shriram Industrial Holdings’ master framework agreement with Shriram EPC and Orient Green Power Company

Rs. 298.2 crores

($50.1 million)

Shriram Industrial Holdings Ltd

Sridhar Gorthi,

Srinivas Parthasarathy (Partners)

 

Tejal Velambath, Kaushik Rajan

(Senior associates)

 

Prajna Mohapatra, Meera Sreekumar (Associates)

Trilegal

Standard Chartered Bank’s acquisition of Morgan Stanley’s non-institutional wealth management business in India

Confidential

Standard Chartered Bank

Nishant Parikh (Partner)

 

Arjun Sharma (Associate)

 

Gautam Singh,

Rahul Singh

(Counsel)

Trilegal

Standard Chartered Bank’s credit facility grant to Domsjö Fabriker AB

$39 million

Standard Chartered Bank

Ameya Khandge (Partner)

 

Pramit Mohanty (Senior associate)

 

Siddharth Saxena (Associate)

Trilegal

Updation of Syndicate Bank medium-term note programme

$2 billion

Syndicate Bank

Srinivas Parthasarathy (Partner)

 

Priyanka Kumar (Senior associate)

 

Anshul Gosavi (Associate)

Trilegal

West Coast Port’s sale of its entire shareholding of 7.69 percent in Ocean Sparkle to Infrastructure India Holdings Fund

Rs. 734.89 million

($12.34 million)

Eredene Capital

Kosturi Ghosh (Partner)

 

Ipsita Chowdhury (Associate)

 

Aninda Pal

(Counsel)

Jurisdiction – Indonesia

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Makes & Partners

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co’s acquisition of 40 percent stake in PT Panin Life

IDR3.3 trillion ($337 million)

Panin Group

 

Soewito Suhardiman Eddymurthy Kardono

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co’s acquisition of 40 percent stake in PT Panin Life

IDR3.3 trillion ($337 million)

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co Ltd

 

Jurisdiction – Malaysia

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allens

Malakoff Corp’s purchase of 50 percent equity interest in the Macarthur Wind Farm from Meridian Energy

RM382 million

($62.3 million)

Meridian Energy

Anna Collyer

(Partner - Australia)

Baker & McKenzie

Malakoff Corp’s purchase of 50 percent equity interest in the Macarthur Wind Farm from Meridian Energy

RM382 million

($62.3 million)

Malakoff Corp

Paul Curnow,

Sean Rush,

John Walker,

Abdul Aziz Munir

(Partners)

 

Robyn Farrell,

Miles Hurst,

Kate Phillips

(Senior associates)

 

Megan Flynn

(Associate)

Linklaters

Malakoff Corp’s purchase of 50 percent equity interest in the Macarthur Wind Farm from Meridian Energy

RM382 million

($62.3 million)

Meridian Energy

 

Shook Lin & Bok

International Healthway Corp’s IPO and listing on SGX

$39 million

International Healthway Corp

 

Mah-Kamariyah & Philip Koh

Loan grant to Multi

Wealth (SG) for refinancing of existing loans, debentures or facilities obtained or issued by IOI Properties Berhad and its

subsidiaries

S$200 million

($157.6 million)

Multi Wealth (SG) Pte Ltd

Adrian Koh

(Partner)

Tay & Partners

International Healthway Corp’s IPO and listing on SGX

$39 million

International Healthway Corp

 

Jurisdiction – Singapore 

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Overy

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co’s acquisition of 40 percent stake in PT Panin Life

IDR3.3 trillion ($337 million)

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co Ltd

Chris Moore

(Partner)

 

James Mythen

(Senior associate)

 

Maurice Simon

(Associate)

Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow

Axis Bank’s credit facility grant to Xius Holding Corp

$8.2 million

Axis Bank, Hyderabad

 

Clifford Chance

China Development Bank Corp’s 13-year debt facility agreement to finance MMG's Dugald River project

$1 billion

China Development Bank Corp

Ting Ting Tan

(Partner)

 

Zhi Chao Chor

(Associate)

Deacons

International Healthway Corp’s IPO and listing on SGX

$39 million

International Healthway Corp

Sabrina Fung

(HK partner)

Engelin Teh & Partners

Aceland Investment's

divestment of F2S1

Investment to EH

Property & Investments

S$336 million

($264.8 million)

EH Property & Investments Pte

Ltd

Joan Chua

(Senior consultant)

Harry Elias Partnership

International Healthway Corp’s IPO and listing on SGX

$39 million

DMG & Partners Securities Pte Ltd

 

Linklaters

Fortis Healthcare International’s divestment of its entire stake in Fortis-Hoan My Medical Corp to Viva Holdings Vietnam

$80 million

Viva Holdings Vietnam Pte Ltd

 

Rajah & Tann

Fortis Healthcare International’s divestment of its entire stake in Fortis-Hoan My Medical Corp to Viva Holdings Vietnam

$80 million

Fortis Healthcare International Pte Ltd

Evelyn Wee

(Partner)

 

Hoon Chi Tern, Jackie Thia

(Associates)

Rajah & Tann

United SM Holdings’ voluntary unconditional cash offer for issued and paid-up ordinary shares in Guthrie GTS’ capital

S$948.6 million

($753.5 million)

United SM Holdings Pte Ltd

Goh Kian Hwee, Lawrence Tan,

Soh Chai Lih

(Partners)

 

Hoon Chi Tern

(Associate)

Shook Lin & Bok

Aceland Investment's

divestment of F2S1

Investment to EH

Property & Investments

S$336 million

($264.8 million)

Enviro-

Hub Holdings Ltd

Ho Ying Ming (Partner)

WongPartnership

Aceland Investment's

divestment of F2S1

Investment to EH

Property & Investments

S$336 million

($264.8 million)

Aceland Investment

Ltd

Chan Sing Yee,

Carol Anne Tan

(Partners)

WongPartnership

Loan grant to British and Malayan Trustee by Commonwealth Bank

of Australia, Singapore Branch and DBS Bank for refinancing of existing debts

S$320 million

($252.4 million)

British and Malayan Trustee Ltd

Alvin Chia,

Tan Beng Lee

(Partners)

WongPartnership

Loan grant to British and Malayan Trustee by Oversea-Chinese

Banking Corp and Standard Chartered Bank for refinancing of existing debts

S$185 million

($145.9 million)

British and Malayan Trustee Ltd

Alvin Chia,

Tan Beng Lee,

Angela Lim

(Partners)

WongPartnership

Loan grant to Multi

Wealth (SG) for refinancing of existing loans, debentures or facilities obtained or issued by IOI Properties Berhad and its

subsidiaries

S$200 million

($157.6 million)

Mandated lead arrangers

Susan Wong

(Partner)

WongPartnership

Loan grant to Sim Lian JV (Vision) for financing land purchase and property construction in SG

S$616 million

($485.8 million)

Mandated lead arrangers

Alvin Chia,

Angela Lim

(Partners)

WongPartnership

United Overseas

Bank’s issue of 2.5 percent bonds due 2016

S$102.36 million

($80.8 million)

United Overseas

Bank Ltd

Hui Choon Yuen,

Trevor Chuan

(Partner)

WongPartnership

United SM Holdings'

acquisition of Guthrie GTS

S$949 million

($747.9 million)

Guthrie GTS Ltd

Ng Wai King

(Joint

managing partner)

 

Andrew Ang,

Tan Sue-Lynn

(Partners)

Jurisdiction – Thailand

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Baker & McKenzie

EGCO’s acquisition of the Boco Rock Wind Farm from Continental Wind Partners and GE Energy Financial Services

3.2 billion baht

($10 million)

Electricity Generating Public Co

Paul Curnow

Sean Rush,

Sawanee  Sethsathira

(Partners)

 

Simon Greenacre, Robyn Farrell,

Kate Phillips,

Craig Amundsen

(Senior associates)

 

Team of associates

Herbert Smith Freehills

EGCO’s acquisition of the Boco Rock Wind Farm from Continental Wind Partners and GE Energy Financial Services

3.2 billion baht

($10 million)

Continental Wind Partners

Gerard Pike

(Partner - Australia)

Thanathip & Partners

Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ’s voluntary tender offer for The Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Ltd

$5.6 billion

GE Capital International Holdings Corp

 

Jurisdiction – Vietnam

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Rajah & Tann

Fortis Healthcare International’s divestment of its entire stake in Fortis-Hoan My Medical Corp to Viva Holdings Vietnam

$80 million

Fortis Healthcare International Pte Ltd

Brian Ng

(Partner)

 

Hoan Bui,

Giao Nguyen

(Senior associates)

 

Thuyen Bui,

Tran Truong,

Cang Nguyen

(Associates)

Russin & Vecchi

Fortis Healthcare International’s divestment of its entire stake in Fortis-Hoan My Medical Corp to Viva Holdings Vietnam

$80 million

Viva Holdings Vietnam Pte Ltd

 

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

 

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