Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Baker & McKenzie

McCormick & Co’s purchase of Wuhan Asia-Pacific Condiments Co’s entire assets

RMB900 million ($147 million) 

McCormick & Co

Howard Wu

(Partner)

Cherri Shi

(Special counsel)

Beijing Jing Rui Law Firm

China Harmony Auto Holding’s Hong Kong IPO

HK$1.67 billion

($215.5 million)

China Harmony Auto Holding Ltd

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Dalian Wanda Group acquisition of Sunseeker International (Holdings)

 320 million pounds

(~$492 million)

Dalian Wanda Group

Alan Wang,

Simon Weller,

Paddy Ko,

Adrian Maguire,

Murray Clayson,

Mark Parson,

Emma Kendall

(Partners)

Jingtian & Gongcheng

China Harmony Auto Holding’s Hong Kong IPO

HK$1.67 billion

($215.5 million)

Underwriters:

1.Goldman Sachs (Asia)

2.China International Capital Corp Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Kirkland & Ellis

China Harmony Auto Holding’s Hong Kong IPO

HK$1.67 billion

($215.5 million)

Sponsors and underwriters:

1.Goldman Sachs (Asia)

2.China International Capital Corp Hong Kong

Dominic Tsun

(Senior partner)

David Zhang

Li-Chien Wong, Fan Zhang

(Partners)

Paul Hastings

Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust’s euro medium- term securities programme

$1.5 billion

1.DBS Trustee Ltd

2.Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust Treasury Company (S) Pte Ltd

3.Mapletree Greater China Commercial Treasury Company (HKSAR) Ltd

4.MGCCT Trustee

Vivian Lam

(Partner)

Erika Wan

(Associate)

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

China Harmony Auto Holding’s Hong Kong IPO

HK$1.67 billion

($215.5 million)

China Harmony Auto Holding Ltd

Chris Wong,

Chris Lin,

Robert Holo (Partners)

Marjory Ding,

Yu Wang,

Ethle Tang,

Irene Lau,

Vanessa Cohen (Associates)

Slaughter and May

MTR Corp and MTR Corp (C.I.)’s increase in aggregate nominal amount of notes under their debt issuance programme

$3-$4 billion

Issuers:

1.MTR Corp Ltd

2.MTR Corp (C.I.) Ltd

Laurence Rudge

(Partner)

Roger Cheng,

Gerard Pang

(Associates)

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Baker & McKenzie

Sumitomo Corp’s development and investment in three Japan-based mega-solar power projects

JPY18 billion

($180 million)

Sumitomo Corp

Naoaki Eguchi

(Head, Banking and Finance Practice)

Toshio Shimada, Masabumi Tamagawa,

Takehito Sekiguchi

(Associates)

Nishimura & Asahi

Sumitomo Corp’s development and investment in three Japan-based mega-solar power projects

JPY18 billion

($180 million)

Sponsor:

Mizuho Corporate Bank