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Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Allen & Overy | $5 billion |
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Appleby (Seychelles counsel) | CIC Gold Group’s flotation on the Main Market of London’s Stock Exchange | GBP3.1m ($4.6 million) | CIC Gold Group Limited | Malcolm Moller (Partner)
Anjana Ramburuth (Counsel) |
Clifford Chance | China Life’s capital offering
| $1.28 billion | China Life | Fang Liu, Connie Heng, Matt Fairclough (Partners)
Song Yue, Vivian Li (Associates) |
Clifford Chance | Bank of China's four currency bond issuance | $3.55 billion | Joint global coordinators | Matt Fairclough (Partner)
Mark Chan, Torrance Shi (Associates) |
Clifford Chance | Airbus’ framework agreement for extension of A320 single-aisle aircraft final assembly line in China |
| Airbus | Kelly Gregory (Partner) |
Clifford Chance | Fosun Industrial’s purchase of shares of German bank Hauck & Aufhäuser | $234 million |
| Kelly Gregory, Glen Ma Stefanie Tetz, Marc Benzler, Andre Schwanna (Partners)
Gwendolyn Muller (Counsel)
Richard Cui (Associate) |
Clifford Chance | Luzheng Futures’ IPO | $118 million | Luzheng Futures | Tim Wang, Fang Liu (Partners)
John Baptist Chan (Counsel)
Corey Zhang, Lawrence Zhang, Claire Cao (Associates) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Export-Import Bank of Korea Notes Offerings |
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| Eugene C. Gregor (Partner)
Tae-Hun Kim (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel)
Omer Harel (Associate) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Baidu’s public offering of 3 percent and 4.125 percent notes | $1.25 billion | joint bookrunners underwriters
| James C. Lin, John D. Paton (Partners) Tae-Hun Kim, Yiyu (Sam) Huang (registered foreign lawyers) Alon Gurfinkel (counsel) Nicholas A. Machen (Associate) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell
| Offering of 10 percent Senior Notes due 2020
| $350 million | Initial Purchasers: HSBC, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Haitong International Securities Company Limited, Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited, ICBC International Securities Limited, Nomura International plc, VTB Capital plc |
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Deacons | Luzheng Futures’ IPO | $118 million | Joint sponsors and underwriters: Qilu International Capital Limited, Haitong International Capital Limited | Ronny Chow, Ronnie Bow (Partners)
Mario Cheung, Flora Tse, Jovita Law, Gary Li, Jade Li, Fiona Kong, Ivy Yuan, Evelyn Cheung (Associates) |
Jingtian & Gongcheng | Offering of 10.0 percent Senior Notes due 2020
| $350 million | China SCE Property Holdings Limited |
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King & Wood Mallesons (PRC counsel)
| Offering of 10.0 percent Senior Notes due 2020
| $350 million | Initial Purchasers: HSBC, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Haitong International Securities Company Limited, Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited, ICBC International Securities Limited, Nomura International plc, VTB Capital plc |
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Kirkland & Ellis | Ascendent’s closing of second China fund | $600 million | Ascendent Capital Partners | Justin Dolling, Jonathan Tadd (Partners) |
MahoneyLiotta (Mongolia counsel) | $5 billion |
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Maples and Calder (British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands law) | Baidu’s public offering of 3 percent and 4.125 percent notes | $1.25 billion | Baidu, Inc | Greg Knowles (Partner)
Derrick Kan (Associate) |
Maples and Calder (British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands law) | Offering of 10.0 percent Senior Notes due 2020
| $350 million | China SCE Property Holdings Limited | Jenny Nip (Partner)
Juno Huang (Associate) |
Paul Hastings | Fosun Property’s acquisition of majority stake in Resolution Property Investment Management |
| Fosun Property | Ronan O’Sullivan, Jia Yan, David Wang, Arun Birla, Suzanne Horne (Partners)
Jiten Tank, Tom Perry, Shane Mitchell, Matthew Poxon, Adam Knight, George Weston (Associates) |
Shearman & Sterling | $5 billion | Mongolian Government | Matthew Bersani (Partner)
Jeremy Wang (Associate) | |
Sidley Austin
| Offering of 10.0 percent Senior Notes due 2020
| $350 million | China SCE Property Holdings Limited |
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | $3.7 billion | Chairman Jun Lei, Chief Executive David Xueling Li (Buyer group) | Julie Gao, Haiping Li, Will Cai, Michael Gisser (Partners) | |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Issuance of Regulation S tap offering of high yield bonds by Wuzhou International Holdings Limited | $100 million | Underwriters: UBS, Credit Suisse, Guotai Junan International | Edward Lam (Partner)
Vincent Sze, Marc Tan (Associates) |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | High-yield bonds consent solicitation by Agile Property Holdings Limited |
| Dealer managers: HSBC and Standard Chartered | Edward Lam (Partner)
Vincent Sze, Yuanjing Chen (Associates) |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Agile Property’s Regulation S high-yield offering of 9.0% senior notes | $500 million | Agile Property Holdings Limited | Edward Lam (Partner)
Vincent Sze, Layton Niu (Associates) |
Watson Farley & Williams | EXMAR group’s construction and acquisition of floating liquefaction and storage unit for natural gas | $198 million | The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (“ICBC”) | Madeline Leong, Christoforos Bisbikos (Partners)
Heike Trischmann, Ryan Tan (Associates) |
Hong Kong
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Baker & McKenzie | Global offering of Chen Xing Development Holdings Limited | HK$300 million ($38 million) | ICBC International Capital Limited | Jackie Lo, Lance Chen (Partners)
Wang Hang, Christopher Shen (Special Counsel)
Albert Chau, Yolanda Zheng (Associates) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Chia Tai Enterprises’ international limited listing |
| Sole sponsor | William F. Barron, Bonnie Y. Chan, Paul Chow (Partners)
Amanda Lau, Kitty Chan, Vanessa Ho (Associates)
Tae-Hun Kim, Alejandro Vargas, Ryan J. Grimm (Registered Foreign Lawyers) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Convertible bonds offering by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. | $200 million |
| John D. Paton, James C. Lin (Partners)
Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel) Terrence O'Donnell
(Counsel-Registered Foreign Lawyer) Meng Ding (registered foreign lawyer) Sarah Joy, Nicholas Machen (Associates)
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Francis & Co. in association with Addleshaw Goddard (Hong Kong) | Man King Holdings’ IPO and placement of shares on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited | HK$80 million ($10 million) | Sole sponsor: Ample Capital Limited; underwriters
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Sale of InterContinental Hong Kong to a consortium of investors | $938 million | InterContinental Hotels Group | Robert Ashworth (Partner) |
Hui & Lam | Man King Holdings’ IPO and placement of shares on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited | HK$80 million ($10 million) | Man King Holdings Limited |
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Latham & Watkins | Nord Anglia Education’s acquisition of six schools from Meritas LLC | $579 million | Nord Anglia Education | Brad Faris, Marc Jaffe, Eugene Lee, David Teh (Partners)
Jonathan Solomon, Alan Bakhos, Laura Janowitsch, Dominik Sklenar, Nicole Fanjul, Colin O’Regan, Shahid Jamil, Tanim Rahman (Associates) |
Maples and Calder (Cayman Islands law)
| Man King Holdings’ IPO and placement of shares on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited | HK$80 million ($10 million) | Man King Holdings Limited | Jenny Nip (Partner) Juno Huang (Associate) |
Mayer Brown JSM | Sale of InterContinental Hong Kong to a consortium of investors | $938 million | Supreme Key Limited | Ricky Yiu, Andrew MacGeoch, Wilson Wong, Duncan Abate, Hong Tran, Mark Uhrynuk, Jeremy Cunningham, Menachem Hasofer, Tow Lu Lim, Simeon Kriesberg, Pieter de Ridder, Sandy Bhogal (Partners) |
Mayer Brown JSM | Sky Light Holdings’ IPO Limited | HK$676 million ($87 million) | Sky Light Holdings | Billy Au (Partner)
Wilson Chong, Sally Lam (Associates) |
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy | Nord Anglia Education’s acquisition of six schools from Meritas LLC | $579 million | Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, HSBC | Joshua M. Zimmerman, Lauren Hanrahan, Rod Miller, Stuart Morrissey (Partners)
Jessica Zhou, Jenny Xie, Trevor Truman (Associates) |
Norton Rose Fulbright | China Merchants Securities’ top-up placement of shares in China Chengtong | HK$978 million ($126 million) | Sole placing agent: China Merchants Securities (HK) Co., Ltd | Psyche Tai, Allan Yee (Partners)
Vicky Lam, Marco Cheng (Associates) |
Paul Hastings | Harmonicare Medical Holdings Limited IPO | HK$1.59 billion ($205.1 million) | Underwriters: Morgan Stanley Asia Limited, CCB International Limited | Raymond Li, Zhaoyu Ren, Nan Li (Partners)
Du Su, Eva Gao, Liming Xu, (Associates) |
Paul Hastings | Guolian Securities Co. Ltd.’s global offering and listing of H shares on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
| $454 million | Underwriters: BOCOM International (Asia) Limited, BOCOM International Securities Limited, ABCI Capital Limited, Qilu International Capital Limited and the others | Sammy Li, Edwin Kwok (Partners)
Sunny Li, Catherine Chu, Winfield Lau, Ella Han (Associates) |
Shearman & Sterling | Harmonicare Medical Holdings Limited HK IPO | HK$1.59 billion ($205.1 million) | Harmonicare Medical Holdings Limited | Colin Law, Peter Chen (Partners)
Maggie Guan, Yang Ge, Wanda Woo, Shun Yip, Stella Hu, Weina Guan (Associates) |
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Japan
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Baker & McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise) | Implementation of Floating Mega Solar Power Business in Hyogo Prefecture |
| Kyocera TCL Solar | Naoaki Eguchi, Masato Honma (Partners)
Masabumi Tamagawa, Takehito Sekiguchi (Associates) |
Herbert Smith Freehills | Mitsui & Co’s acquisition of a 25% equity interest in QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited |
| Mitsui & Co., Ltd. | Lex Papasolomontos, Gillian Fairfield (Partners)
Lisa Tat, Shaun Lee (Associates) |
South Korea
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Paul Hastings | Samsung Electronics and Samsung Fine Chemicals’ secondary public offering | $290 million | Samsung Electronics, Samsung Fine Chemicals | Daniel Sae-Chin Kim, Dong Chul Kim (Partners) Young Hwan Ryu (Associate) |
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