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Investors acquire stake in Alibaba Group

US$1,600.00 m
  • Entry date - Wednesday, 16 November 2011
  • Jurisdiction - China, Hong Kong, Singapore
  • Practice - M&A
  • Investors acquire stake in Alibaba Group

  • Firm
    Debevoise & Plimpton
  • Client
    Alibaba Group
  • Lead Lawyers
    Tom Britt
  • Role
    International counsel to target
  • Firm
    Goodwin Procter
  • Client
    Digital Sky Technologies
  • Lead Lawyers
    Yash Rana
  • Role
    International counsel to investor
  • Firm
    Haiwen & Asia
  • Client
    Silver Lake, Temasek
  • Lead Lawyers
  • Role
    PRC counsel to investors
  • Firm
    Paul Weiss
  • Client
    Silver Lake, Temasek
  • Lead Lawyers
    Jeanette Chan
  • Role
    International counsel to investors
  • Firm
    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
  • Client
    Yunfeng
  • Lead Lawyers
    Leiming Chen, Philip Culhane
  • Role
    International counsel to investor


DEAL SUMMARY
·          A consortium of investors to acquire a stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group for $1.6 billion

·         Consortium includes; US private equity firm Silver lake Technology Management, Digital Sky Technologies, Singapore’s Temasek and Yunfeng Capital

·         Debevoise & Plimpton has long-standing relationship with Alibaba dating back to 2005 when Yahoo! bought a 40 percent stake in the company for $1 billion


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