North Asia Deals: Week of Feb 29 | Asian Legal Business

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Firm	Deal	Value	Client	Lawyer(s) involved
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher	Multi-year financing deal with Perfect World Pictures	$500 million	Universal Pictures	Stephen Tsoneff (Partner)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips	Multi-year financing deal with Perfect World Pictures	$500 million	Perfect World Pictures	Lindsay Conner (Partner)
Norton Rose Fulbright	Refinancing relating to two LNG vessels		ICBC Financial Leasing	Fei Kwok, David Johnson, Davide Barzilai, Michael Flamenbaum (Partners) Harold Tin (Of Counsel) Simon Barrell (Associate)
Paul Hastings	Allied Cement’s acquisition of 60% equity interests of Beijing Ziguang Pharmaceutical from Shenzhen Waranty Asset Management	$44 million	Allied Cement Holdings Limited	Raymond Li, Pei Fang (Partners) Bonnie Kong, (Associates)
Paul Hastings	Plus Global Limited’s acquisition of all the shares of SEA (BVI) Limited	$1.3 billion	Profit Plus Global	Vivian Lam (Partner) Bonnie Kong, Matt Li, Jeff Lee (Associates)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom	Citigroup’s sale of stake in China Guangfa Bank to China Life Insurance Company	$3 billion	Citigroup	Rajeev Duggal, Jonathan Stone, Stuart Finkelstein, Brian Krause, Erica Schohn, Peter Huang, Chris Betts (Partners) Jonathan Wisebrod (Counsel) Mike Kung, Olivia Odell, Valarie Ney, Diana Backhouse (Associates)
Sullivan & Cromwell	Anheuser-Busch InBev’s sale of SABMiller plc’s (U.K.) 49% interest in China Resources Snow Breweries to China Resources Beer (Holdings) Co. Ltd.	$1.6 billion	Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV	Michael G. DeSombre, Frank Aquila, George H. White (Partners) Yeqing Zheng John Horsfield-Bradbury (Associates)