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China and Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

China Tower's IPO and HKEX listing

$6.9 billion

China Tower

Partners
Teresa Ko
Richard Wang
Jason Xu
Yan Chen

Clifford Chance

China Tower's IPO and HKEX listing

$6.9 billion

CICC
Goldman Sachs

Partners
Fang Liu
Amy Lo
Tim Wang

Counsel
YuFei Liao

Senior Associate
Claire Cao

Associates
Erxin Lu
Xiaoxi Liu

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Heineken's non-binding agreements with China Resources to create a long-term strategic partnership in China, Hong Kong and Macau

1.948 billion euro (approximately $2.3 billion)

Heineken

Partners
Miranda So
Paul Chow
Pritesh Shah
Howard Shelanski

Counsel
Brian J. Snyder
Stephenie Fung
Nicholas Spearing

Associate
Samantha Lefland

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Sinochem Energy's IPO

$2 billion

Sinochem Energy

 

Tian Yuan Law Firm

Sinochem Energy's IPO

$2 billion

Sinochem Energy

 

Clifford Chance

Sinochem Energy's IPO

$2 billion

Morgan Stanley
CLSA Capital Markets
BOCI Asia

 

Fangda Partners

Sinochem Energy's IPO

$2 billion

Morgan Stanley
CLSA Capital Markets
BOCI Asia

 

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Cango's IPO and listing in NSYE

$1.6 billion

Cango

Partners
Chris Lin
Dan Fertig
Rob Holo

Senior Counsel
Jonathan Cantor

Counsel
David Lee

Registered Foreign Lawyer
Kai Fan

Associate
Pierce Pandolph

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

BeiGene's IPO

$903 million

BeiGene

Partners
Christopher Betts
Andrea Nicolas
Pamela Lawrence Endreny

Fangda Partners

BeiGene's IPO

$903 million

BeiGene

 

Davis Polk & Wardwell

BeiGene's IPO

$903 million

 

 

JunHe

BeiGene's IPO

$903 million

 

 

Mourant Ozannes

BeiGene's IPO

$903 million

 

 

Paul Hastings

Sino-Ocean Group issuance of floating rate guaranteed notes due 2021

$700 million

Sino-Ocean Group

Partner
Vivian Lam

Associates
Jeff Lee
May Lun

Baker McKenzie FenXun

Shui On Land’s sale of stakes in Shanghai’s residential real estate portfolios to further its strategic partnership with Joy City Property

approximately $670 million

Shui On Land

Partners
Alex Gong
Rico Chan

Paul Hastings

Yuzhou Properties issuance of senior notes due 2021

$425 million

Yuzhou Properties

Partner
Vivian Lam

Associates
Jeff Lee
Andy Tam.

Paul Hastings

Ascletis Pharma's global offering and Hong Kong IPO

$400 million

Morgan Stanley
Goldman Sachs
China Merchant Securities

Partners
Nan Li
Steven Winegar

Associates
Crystal Zhang
Ke Zhang
Erika Zhao
Berton Wang

Commerce and Finance Law Offices

Ascletis Pharma's global offering and Hong Kong IPO

$400 million

Morgan Stanley
Goldman Sachs
China Merchant Securities

 

Sidley Austin

Ascletis Pharma's global offering and Hong Kong IPO

$400 million

Ascletis Pharma

 

Tian Yuan Law Firm

Ascletis Pharma's global offering and Hong Kong IPO

$400 million

Ascletis Pharma

 

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Hope Education Group's IPO

HK$3.1 billion (approximately $389.7 million)

Hope Education Group

Partners
Bonnie Y. Chan
Li He

Counsels
Stephenie Fung
Alon Gurfinkel
Jeanine McGuinness

Associates
Jeffery Chan
Veronica Orecharova

Foreign Registered Lawyers
Fei (Grace) Kong
Xiaotong (Lisa) Yuan

Clifford Chance

CVC Capital Partners' in RKE, a leading toll operator in China

HK$2 billion (approximately $254.8 million)

CVC Capital Partners

Partner
Andrew Whan

Senior Associate
Peter Liang

Registered Foreign Lawyer
I-Ming Tan

Associate
Michelle Kwok.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Aurora Mobile's NASDAQ IPO

$77 million

Goldman Sachs (Asia)
Credit Suisse

Partners
Chris Lin
Dan Fertig
Rob Holo

Senior Counsel
Jonathan Cantor

Registered Foreign Lawyer
Kai Fan
Yi-Ping Chang

Associate
Caroline Phillips

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Aurora Mobile's NASDAQ IPO

$77 million

Aurora Mobile

Partner
Julie Gao

Counsel
Shu Du

Associates
Jie Zhang
Yadi Fan
Frank Xu

International Legal Consultant
Zhihong Yao

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Cango's IPO and listing in NSYE

 

Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs

Partners
James C. Lin
Li He

Associates
Xuelin (Steve) Wang
Veronica Orecharova

Counsels
Alon Gurfinkel
Marcie A. Goldstein

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India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Latham & Watkins

HDFC Asset Management's IPO

$400 million

Kotak Mahindra Capital , Axis Capital, DSP Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Global Markets India, CLSA India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Securities, IIFL Holdings, JM Financial, J.P. Morgan India, Morgan Stanley India and Nomura Financial Advisory and Securities (India)

Partners
Rajiv Gupta
Jiyeon Lee-Lim
Gregory Hannibal
Nabil Sabki
Alan Avery

Associates
Esha Goel
Basil Al-Jafari
Lauren Bewley
John Reinert
Pia Naib

AZB & Partners

GIC's affiliate’s acquisition of equity in Greenko Energy Holdings

approximately $316 million

GIC and its affiliates

Partners
Alka Nalavadi
Prashanth Sabeshan
Rahul Rai

Dhaval Vussonji & Associates
Advocates & Solicitors

Funding of Indiabulls' refinancing of existing loans and for expenses relating to Indiabulls Finance Centre Tower 4

500 crores (approximately $75.2 million)

IndusInd Bank

Partner
Dhaval Vussonji

Associate Partner
Malavika Menon

Associate
Chirag Shah

Dhaval Vussonji & Associates
Advocates & Solicitors

Omkar's issuance of redeemable, secured, non-convertible debentures

375 crores (approximately $56.4 million)

Piramal Fund Management

Associate Partner
Malavika Menon

Associates
Chirag Shah
Bhoomi Dave

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Aliaxis Group's acquisition of stake in Ashirvad Pipes

Confidential.  More than $50 million

Aliaxis Group

Managing Partner
Cyril Shroff

Partners
Rashmi Pradeep
Arun Prabhu
Shaneen Parikh
Shaneen Parikh
Namrata Kolar
Bharat Budholia
Arun Prabhu
Rashmi Pradeep

AZB & Partners

Aliaxis Group's acquisition of stake in Ashirvad Pipes

Confidential.  More than $50 million

Aliaxis Group

Partners
Zia Mody
Rajendra Barot
Vaidhyanadhan Iyer
Nandan Pendsey

Senior Associates
Bhavya Mohan
Anshika Misra

Aarna Law

Aliaxis Group's acquisition of stake in Ashirvad Pipes

Confidential.  More than $50 million

Aliaxis Group

 

Debevoise & Plimpton

Aliaxis Group's acquisition of stake in Ashirvad Pipes

Confidential.  More than $50 million

Poddar Family

 

AZB & Partners

IFC's term loan to Dhaka Bank for on-lending to small and medium enterprises in Bangladesh

$50 million

IFC

Partners
Gautam Saha
Pallavi Meena

Senior Associate
Swati Chauhan

Dhaval Vussonji & Associates
Advocates & Solicitors

Funding of Piramal's construction expenses for Wadhwa Pristine

207 crores (approximately $31 million

Piramal Capital and Housing Finance

Associate Partner
Malavika Menon

Associates
Chirag Shah
Bhoomi Dave

AZB & Partners

KKR India Financial Services' acquisition of equity shares in HDFC Asset Management Company

Approximately $20 million

KKR India Financial Services

Partners
Zia Mody
Roxanne Anderson

AZB & Partners

IFC's term loan to PRAN Agro Business to finance its capital expenditures

Approximately $15 million

IFC

Partners
Gautam Saha
Pallavi Meena

Senior Associate
Nikhil Bahl

AZB & Partners

Thermax' acquisition of stake in Thermax Babcock & Wilcox Energy Solutions from Babcock & Wilcox

Confidential. More than $10 million

Thermax and Thermax Babcock & Wilcox Energy Solutions

Partners
Ashwin Ramanathan
Roxanne Anderson

Senior Associate
Raina Upadhyay

AZB & Partners

Caledonia and Amber's sale of Marwadi's equity shares

Approximately $10 million

Caledonia and Amber

Partners
Darshika Kothari
Divya Mundra

Associate
Pankhuri Govil

AZB & Partners

Sun Petrochemicals' acquisition of stake in Gujara Cambay Basin Block

Confidential.  More than $10 million

Reliance Industries

Partner
Prashanth Sabeshan

Associate
Adoksh Shastry

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

Tata Advanced System's acquisition of Tata Group's defence business

Undisclosed

Tata Advanced Systems

Managing Partner
Akshay Chudasama

Partners
Anuj Prasad
Arka Banerjee
Shweta Shroff Chopra
Aparna Mehra
Meghna Rajadhyaksha

Principal Associates
Anandita Kaushik
Vivek Agarwal

Senior Associates
Ankit Mishra,
Aditi Tralshawala
Ritwik Bhattacharya

Associates
Payal Chhabria
Taruna Dhingra
Aditya Kumar Ayachit
Gayatri Pradhan
Umang Singh
Pulkitesh Tiwari

AZB & Partners

Muhoot Microfin's IPO

Undisclosed

Muthoot Microfin

Partner
Srinath Dasari

Associates
Ronak Chawla
Aditi Verma
Ishita Agarwal

AZB & Partners

PNB Metlife India Insurance Company's IPO

Undisclosed

M. Pallonji & Company, Investor Selling Shareholder

Partners
Varoon Chandra
Arvind Ramesh
Lionel D’Almeida

Associates
Aditi Verma
Tripti Pandey

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Malaysia

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Allen & Gledhill

Boardroom's acquisition of Symphony Share Registrars, Malaysian Issuing House, Symphony Corporate House and Sky Corporate Services

164.14 million ringgit (approximately $40.2 million)

Boardroom

Partners
Andrew M Lim
Hilary Low
Daren Shiau

Rahmat Lim & Partners

Boardroom's acquisition of Symphony Share Registrars, Malaysian Issuing House, Symphony Corporate House and Sky Corporate Services

164.14 million ringgit (approximately $40.2 million)

Boardroom

Partner
Chia Chee Hoong

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Philippines

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer (s) Involved

Allen & Overy

Pilmico International's acquisition of stake in Gold Coin

$400 million

Pilmico International

Partner
Alun Evans

Counsel
David Norman

Senior Associate
Heather Ong

Associate
Catriona Chau

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Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Allen & Gledhill

Bayfront Infrastructure Capital and Clifford Capital's issuance of Class A senior secured floating rate notes 2038

$320.6 million

Bayfront Infrastructure Capital and Clifford Capital

Partners
Yeo Wico
Jeanne Ong
Danny Tan
Andrew Chan
Sunit Chhabra

Allen & Gledhill

Bayfront Infrastructure Capital and Clifford Capital's issuance of Class B senior secured floating rate notes 2038

$72.6 million

Bayfront Infrastructure Capital and Clifford Capital

Partners
Yeo Wico
Jeanne Ong
Danny Tan
Andrew Chan
Sunit Chhabra

Allen & Gledhill

Bayfront Infrastructure Capital and Clifford Capital's issuance of subordinated notes due 2038

$45.8 million

Bayfront Infrastructure Capital and Clifford Capital

Partners
Yeo Wico
Jeanne Ong
Danny Tan
Andrew Chan
Sunit Chhabra

Allen & Gledhill

Bayfront Infrastructure Capital and Clifford Capital's issuance of Class C senior secured floating rate notes 2038

$19 million

Bayfront Infrastructure Capital and Clifford Capital

Partners
Yeo Wico
Jeanne Ong
Danny Tan
Andrew Chan
Sunit Chhabra

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