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China

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Herbert Smith Freehills

State Grid Corporation of China’s medium term multi-tranche bond programme

 

$7.7 billion

State Grid Corporation of China

Tom Chau, Zhong Wang, Siddhartha Sivaramakrishnan (Partners)

 

Isaac Chen, Jin Kong (Senior Associates)

 

George Wu (Associate)

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Didi Chuxing’s fundraising for investments in AI tech

$5.5 billion

Didi Chuxing

Julie Gao (Partner)

 

Yuting Wu (Counsel)

 

Yiming Liu (Associate)

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Tencent’s cash investment in Zhuan Zhuan

$200 million

Tencent

Jeanette Chan, Judie Ng Shortell, Tong Yu (Partners)

 

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Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Take-private offer for HK shoe retailer Belle International

$6.8 billion

Consortium led by Hillhouse Capital Group and CDH Investments

 

Kirkland & Ellis

Take-private offer for HK shoe retailer Belle International

$6.8 billion

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Investor consortium’s financial adviser)

Nicholas Norris, Derek Poon, David Irvine, Daniel Lindsey (Partners)

 

 

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India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Old Mutual’s sale of its 26% stake in Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance to KMBL

$200 million

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd (KMBL)

Cyril Shroff, Shishir Vayttaden, S.R. Patnaik, Ranjan Negi, Bharat Budholia (Partners)

 

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Japan

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

 

 

KKR’s buyout of Hitachi Kokusai Electric

$2.3 billion

KKR

David Sneider (Partner)

Nishimura & Asahi

KKR’s buyout of Hitachi Kokusai Electric

$2.3 billion

KKR

Asa Shinkawa (Partner)

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

KKR’s buyout of Hitachi Kokusai Electric

$2.3 billion

Hitachi Kokusai Electric

 

Yo Uraoka (Partner)

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

KKR’s buyout of Hitachi Kokusai Electric

$2.3 billion

Japan Industrial Partners

Ko Wakabayashi (Partner)

 

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Thailand

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Latham & Watkins

TPI Polene Power’s IPO

 $504.9 million

TPI Polene Power

Posit Laohaphan (Partner)

 

Eric Yiu, Diana Dizon (Associates)

 

 

 

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