Jurisdiction – China

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Overy

Deutsche Bank’s debut Renminbi-denominated Formosa bond issuance

RMB1.1 billion

($180 million)

Deutsche Bank

Walter Son,

Kai Schaffelhuber (Partners)

 

Michael Becker

(Counsel)

 

 Jaclyn Yeap

(Associate)

Baker & McKenzie

Innolux’s SEC-registered sale of shares in Himax Technologies

$133 million

1.Innolux Corp

2.Leadtek Global Group Corp

Alex Chiang,

Brian Spires,

James Hsiao

(Partners)

 

Jennifer Chen (Corporate consultant)

 

Christopher Shen,

Lin Zhan

(Registered foreign lawyers)

Conyers Dill & Pearman

(Cayman counsel)

Innolux’s SEC-registered sale of shares in Himax Technologies

$133 million

Himax Technologies

 

Emmet Marvin & Martin

Innolux’s SEC-registered sale of shares in Himax Technologies

$133 million

Bank of New York Mellon

 

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

PICC Property and Casualty Company’s rights issue

$938 million

Joint lead underwriters and bookrunners

Richard Wang, Calvin Lai

(Partners)

Han Kun Law Offices

Dongying Pharmaceuticals’ transfer of its domestic equity interest to Shanghai Pharma

Undisclosed

Dongying Pharmaceuticals Co Ltd

Stanley Guo,

Jason Wang,

Adrian Lv,

Yuan Lin,

Nikki Yang,

Alan Luo

(Partners)

Shearman & Sterling

(U.S. counsel)

Innolux’s SEC-registered sale of shares in Himax Technologies

$133 million

Underwriters and bookrunners:

1.Citigroup Global Markets

2.Merrill Lynch 3.Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 4.Chardan Capital Markets

5.Credit Suisse Securities(USA)

 

Jurisdiction – Japan

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Herbert Smith Freehills

Proposed merger between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ and Hitachi’s thermal power operations

Undisclosed

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd

Rebecca Major,

James Robinson (Partners)

 

Lukas Kratochvil (Senior associate)

 

Douglas Heller

(Associate)

White & Case

Slovak Republic’s issue of two series of Japanese yen-denominated Samurai bonds

JPY 30 billion ($305.4 million)

The Slovak Republic

Marek Staron,

Juraj Fuska,

Marek Staroň, Norifusa Hashimoto (Partners)

 

Róbert Vydra, (Counsel)

 

Eiichi Nagai,

Yuki Hattori,

Martin Mojžis (Associates)

Jurisdiction – Taiwan

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Baker & McKenzie

Innolux’s SEC-registered sale of shares in Himax Technologies

$133 million

Himax Technologies

 

Davis Polk & Wardwell

(U.S. counsel)

Innolux’s SEC-registered sale of shares in Himax Technologies

$133 million

Himax Technologies

 

James Lin

(Partner)

 

Harold Tin

(Foreign registered lawyer)

 

Sabrina Lin

(Legal manager)

 

Alon Gurfinkel,

Catherine Martin (Counsel)

 

Meng Ding

(Associate)

 

Jenah Pei Jiang

(Legal assistant)

Lee and Li

Innolux’s SEC-registered sale of shares in Himax Technologies

$133 million

Underwriters and bookrunners:

1.Citigroup Global Markets

2.Merrill Lynch 3.Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 4.Chardan Capital Markets

5.Credit Suisse Securities(USA)

 

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

 

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