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China and Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Baker McKenzie

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's cornerstone investment into GLP Japan Development Partners III

$5.5. billion

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

Partners
Edwin Wong
Julia Chia
Nicola White

Special Counsels
Tom Jenkins
Chelsea Chen

Fangda Partners

WuXi AppTec's IPO

$1 billion

WuXi AppTec

 

Jia Yuan Law Offices

WuXi AppTec's IPO

$1 billion

Morgan Stanley Asia, Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong), and Goldman Sachs (Asia)

 

Shearman & Sterling

WuXi AppTec's IPO

$1 billion

Morgan Stanley Asia, Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong), and Goldman Sachs (Asia)

 

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

WuXi AppTec's IPO

$1 billion

WuXi AppTec

 

Baker McKenzie

Evergrande Health Industry Group's acquisition of stake in National Electric Vehicle Sweden

$930 million

Evergrande Health Industry Group

Partners
Lawrence Lee
Christina Lee
Simon Leung
Anders Fast
Carl Svernlov
Mats Rooth

Principal
Sze Shing Tan

Special Counsels
Betty Wong
Scott Silverman

Senior Associate
John Gustafson

Associates
Brian Wong
Bonnie Lau
Annie Wat
Jeff Wang
Erik Holmgren
Georg Jonsson

Baker McKenzie

Global Solar Firm REC's sale and leaseback of industrial site in Singapore

$430.5 million

REC (Singapore arm)

Principal
Geraldine Ong

Local Principal
Sharon Tan

Special Counsel
Duan Cui

Associate
Michelle Koh
Annie Wat

Paul Hastings

Weimob's IPO

$97 million

Deutsche Securities Asia
Haitong International Capital

Partner
Nan Li
Zhaoyu Ren

India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

AZB & Partners

Merger of Gruh Finance with Bandhan Bank

$3.003 billion

Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC)

Partners
Zia Mody
Ashwath Rau
Anu Tiwari

Senior Associates
Vipul Jain
Himanshoo Tembe
Aditya Alok
Tanya Pahwa

AZB & Partners

RHT Health Trust Services' sale of securities held in International Hospital, Fortis Health Management, Fortis Hospotel, Hospitalia Eastern, Escorts Heart and Super Speciality Hospitalto Fortis Healthcare

$727 million

RHT Health Trust Manager

Partner
Dhruv Singhal

Associates
Shriyani Datta
Pooja Natarajan

AZB & Partners

(i)  Merger of Birlasoft (India) with KPIT

(ii) Demerger of engineering business of KPIT into KPIT Engineering

(iii) Open offers to be made for shares of KPIT and KEL

$716 million

KPIT Technologies

Partners
Ashwath Rau
Kashish Bhatia
Rahul Rai

Senior Associates
Medha Marathe
Pranav Atit
Rahul Satyan
Gaurav Bansal

L&L Partners

Fortis Healthcare's acquisition of the Indian assets held by RHT Health Trust

$653 million

Fortis Healthcare

Partners
Sundeep Dudeja
Vaibhav Kakkar

Managing Associate
Prashant Shah
Vivek Agarwal

Senior Associate
Sahil Arora

Associates
Debarpan Ghosh
Bhavini Singh
Keshav Pareek

Partner Designate
Harish Kumar

AZB & Partners

Think & Learn's Series F fund raise from Naspers Ventures, and CPP Investment Board

$540 million

CPP Investment Board

Partners
Darshika Kothari
Arvind Ramesh

Senior Associates
Medha Marathe
Palak Khandelwal

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

Think & Learn's Series F fund raise from Naspers Ventures, and CPP Investment Board

$540 million

Think & Learn

Partners
Amit Khansaheb
Roshan Thomas

Principal Associate
Prateek Lala

Associate
Siddharth Madhavan

Trilegal

Think & Learn's Series F fund raise from Naspers Ventures, and CPP Investment Board

$540 million

Naspers Ventures

Partner
Yogesh Singh

Counsel
Nitika Chabra

AZB & Partners

Apax' acquisition of stake of Fractal from AIMIA Proprietary Loyalty Singapore and others

$200 million

Aimia through AIMIA Proprietary Loyalty Singapore

Partner
Gautam Saha

Senior Associate
Swati Chauhan

AZB & Partners

Apax' acquisition of stake of Fractal from TA Associates, AIMIA Property Loyalty, Khazanah Nasional and others

$200 million

Apax Partners

Partners
Ashwath Rau
Divya Mundra

Senior Associate
Pranav Atit

L&L Partners

Monsanto India's open offer to the public shareholders

$186 million

Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Partner
Sundeep Dudeja

Managing Associate
Avisha Gupta

AZB & Partners

Sequioia's acquisition of convertible cumulative preference shares and convertible debentures

$110 million

SCI Growth Investments II, Sequoia Capital India Growth Investment Holdings I and SC GG India Mobility Holdings (collectively “Sequoia”)

Partners
Gautam Saha
Sachin Mehta

Senior Associate
Roy George

AZB & Partners

FMO's acquisition of 1800 non-convertible debentures issued by Tata Cleantech Capital

$25.6 million

Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij Voor Ontwikkelingslanden (FMO)

Partners
Anand Shah
Hufriz Wadia

AZB & Partners

BCPE Beetle Holdings' acquisition of majority stake in Brillio

Undisclosed

Bain Capital

Partners
Nandita Govind
Anisha Shridhar

AZB & Partners

Shell's acquisition of stake in Hazira LNG and Hazira Port from Total Gaz Electricité Holdings

Undisclosed

Shell Gas

Partners
Vinati Kastia
Abhishek Shinde
Daksh Trivedi

AZB & Partners

Shel's acquisition of stake in Hazira LNG and Hazira Port

Undisclosed

Shell Gas

Partners
Vinati Kastia
Abhishek Shinde
Daksh Trivedi

Japan

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Nishimura & Asahi

ITOCHU Corporation's capital and business alliance with FreakOut Holdings

Undisclosed

ITOCHU Corporation

Partner
Takuya Matsuo

Nishimura & Asahi

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company's participation in the Moray East Offshore windfarm project

Undisclosed

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company

Partners
Megumi Shimizu
Yasunari Sugiyama
Hiroki Kaga
James Emerson
Mark Tudor
Kentaro Miyagi

Nishimura & Asahi

Rakuten's sale of share in O-net to Polaris Capital Group

Undisclosed

Rakuten

Partners
Tatsuya Tanigawa
Makoto Shimizu

Malaysia

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Allen & Gledhill

Mitsui & Co.'s acquisition of IHH Healthcare's enlarged share capital from Pulau Memutik Ventures

$2.05 billion

Mitsui & Co.

Partners
Tan Su May
hristopher Koh
Lauren Chung
Elsa Chen

Rahmat Lim & Partners

Mitsui & Co.'s acquisition of IHH Healthcare's enlarged share capital from Pulau Memutik Ventures

$2.05 billion

Mitsui & Co.

Partners
Chen Lee Won
Ho Wei Lih

Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Allen & Gledhill

NTUC Enterprise Cooperative's acquisition of Kopitiam Investment and its subsidiaries

$265.8 million

NTUC Enterprise Cooperative

Partners
Prawiro Widjaja
Elsa Chen
Eudora Tan
Shalene Jin
Tay Yong Seng
Eugene Ho
Daren Shiau
Adrian Ang

Morgan Lewis Stamford

Cheong Sim Lam's acquisition of Ascott Raffles Place

$260 million

Cheong Sim Lam

Director
Mr Wai Ming Yap
Associate
Gina Ng

Morgan Lewis Stamford

Uber Technologies' sale of Lion City Rental

$260 million

Uber Technologies

Directors
Suet-Fern Lee
Wai Ming Yap
Associate
Gina Ng

Allen & Gledhill

Auric Pacific's sale of distribution business in Singapore and Malaysia

$181.1 million

Auric Pacific

Partners
Prawiro Widjaja
Elsa Chen
Fock Kah Yan
Eugene Ho
Daren Shiau
Tham Kok Leong
Sunit Chhabra

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