Jurisdiction – China
|
Firm |
Deal |
Value |
Client |
Lawyer(s) involved |
|
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
Forgame Holdings’ acquisition of Magic Feature’s shares |
$90 million |
Forgame Holdings Ltd |
Paul Chow (Partner) Peter Cheng, Christine Xu, Katie Lam, Pritesh Shah, Jansen Thurmer (Associates) Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel) |
|
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
$214.7 million |
Tencent Holdings Ltd |
Kirtee Kapoor, Paul Chow, Miranda So (Partners) Abhishek Kolay, Steven Sha (Registered foreign lawyers) Christine Xu, Vanessa Chan (Associates) |
|
|
Han Kun Law Offices |
$214.7 million |
Tencent Holdings Ltd |
|
|
|
Jun He Law Offices |
Senior plc’s proposed 100 percent acquisition of UPECA Technologies |
58.2 million pounds ($96.7 million) |
Senior plc |
James Tao Wu, Liu Jin (Associates) |
|
Kirkland & Ellis |
Vipshop Holdings’ acquisition of a 75 percent equity interest in Lefeng.com |
$132.5 million |
Vipshop Holdings Ltd |
David Zhang, Frank Sun, Jesse Sheley, Angela Russo (Partners) Yi Gao, Julia Yu, Jing Li (Associates) |
Jurisdiction – Hong Kong
|
Firm |
Deal |
Value |
Client |
Lawyer(s) involved |
|
Baker & McKenzie |
Poly Culture Group Corp’s global offering and listing on the HKEx |
HK$2.57 billion ($331 million) |
Sole sponsor: CITIC Securities Sole global coordinator: CLSA |
Jackie Lo, Edwin Li (Partners) Tracy Lam (Special counsel) Isabella Li, Han Bing, Molly Guan (Associates) |
|
Clifford Chance |
Horsepower Finance’s medium-term programme |
$1.2 billion |
Joint managers: 1.ICBC International Capital Ltd 2.ICBC International Securities Ltd 3.Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Ltd 4.Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (SG branch) 5.UBS AG (HK branch) 6.Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. 7.Citigroup Global Markets Ltd 8.HSBC Ltd 9.Société Générale |
|
|
Clifford Chance |
Poly Culture Group Corp’s global offering and listing on the HKEx |
HK$2.57 billion ($331 million) |
Poly Culture Group Corp Ltd |
Tim Wang, Jean Yu, Jean Thio (Partners) Liu Ning, Vincent Wang (Senior associates) Xiang Tianning, Wu Hao, Louis Lim (Associates) |
|
Deacons |
Top-up placing of shares of China Vanguard Group |
$36.03 million |
DBS Asia Capital Ltd (placing agent) |
Ronny Chow (Partner) |
|
DLA Piper |
Top-up placing of shares of China Vanguard Group |
$36.03 million |
China Vanguard Group Ltd |
|
|
Linklaters |
Foxconn (Far East)’s update of its medium- term notes programme |
$2 billion |
Arrangers: 1.Barclays Bank 2.Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd |
|
|
Linklaters |
Horsepower Finance’s medium-term programme |
$1.2 billion |
Horsepower Finance Ltd |
|
|
Maples and Calder (Cayman Islands counsel) |
Foxconn (Far East)’s update of its medium- term notes programme |
$2 billion |
Foxconn (Far East) Ltd |
Christine Chang (Partner) Lorraine Pao (Associate) |
|
Maples and Calder (BVI counsel) |
Horsepower Finance’s medium-term programme |
$1.2 billion |
Horsepower Finance Ltd |
Jenny Nip (Partner) Karen Zhang (Associate) |
|
Paul Hastings |
Poly Culture Group Corp’s global offering and listing on the HKEx |
HK$2.57 billion ($331 million) |
Sole sponsor: Securities Corporate Finance (HK) Ltd Sole global coordinator, bookrunner and lead manager: CLSA Ltd |
Raymond Li, Steven Winegar, Zhaoyu Ren (Partners) Dane Johansen, Joy Chen, Yingying Chen (Associates) |
|
Slaughter and May |
Senior plc’s proposed 100 percent acquisition of UPECA Technologies |
58.2 million pounds ($96.7 million) |
Senior plc |
Padraig Cronin, Natalie Yeung (Partners) Shyam Radia, Phoebe Hughes, Amanda Ho (Associates) |
Where exact value is not known, ALB will use an approximate value based on available market data or coverage.
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