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China and Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Dentons

Tongchuangjiuding's disposal of equity interest in FTLife Insurance to NWS Holdings

$2.74 billion

Tongchuangjiuding Investment Management Group

Partners
Gordon Ng
Li Shoushuang
Emilia Shi

Associate
Ningxin Sun

Latham & Watkins

BeiGene 's global strategic oncology collaboration with Amgen

$2.7 billion

AmGen

Partners
Charles Ruck
Steven Chinowsky
Rowland Cheng
Daniel Rees
Terris Tang
Larry Stein
Les Carnegie
Amanda Reeves

Counsels
Darryl Steensma
Eliot Choy
Patrick English

Associates
Brendan Haberlewith
Nima Movahedi
Christopher Lee
Madison Mapes
Liyun Deng
William Kessler

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

BeiGene 's global strategic oncology collaboration with Amgen

$2.7 billion

BeiGene

Partner
Christopher Betts

Associate
Allan Wan

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

ESR Cayman's listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

$1.6 billion

 

Partners
Grace Huang
Stephen Revell
Arun Balasubramanian

Baker McKenzie

Changsha Broad Homes Industrial Group's global offering and Hong Kong listing

$151 million

Changsha Broad Homes Industrial Group

Partner
Hang Wang

Associates
Rachel Wang
Ray Chan
Daisy Chen
Hu Xiaoyang

FenXun Partners

Changsha Broad Homes Industrial Group's global offering and Hong Kong listing

$151 million

Changsha Broad Homes Industrial Group

Counsel
Yolanda Zheng

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Changsha Broad Homes Industrial Group's global offering and Hong Kong listing

$151 million

CICC
China Securities (International) Corporate Finance Company

Partners
Richard Wang
Calvin Lai

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

CMGE Technology Group’s listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

$149 million

CICC
BNP Paribas

Partners
Calvin Lai
Jason Xu
Tim Mak

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

Icon Group's acquisition of SunTech Medical Group

 

Icon Group
Goldman Sachs
QIC
Pagoda Investments

Partner
Michael Nicklin

Associate
Justin Greer

Gilbert + Tobin

Icon Group's acquisition of SunTech Medical Group

 

Icon Group
Goldman Sachs
QIC
Pagoda Investments

Partners
John Schembri
Gail Christopher

Associate
Matthew Weetman

Orrick

China Reform Fund’s investment in the Series D financing of Akeso Biopharma

 

China Reform Fund

Partner
Jinsong (Jeff) Zhang

Associate
Martha Wang

Orrick

Highpower International's going private

 

 

Partners
Richard Vernon Smith
Jie (Jeffrey) Sun

Senior Associate
Lu (Echo) Wang

Orrick

M17 Group's acquisition of MeMe Live

 

M17 Entertainment

Of Counsel
William Ho

Partners
Jeffrey Sun
Richard Smith

Associates
Eva Ying
Joe Scheu
Consultant
Frank Huang

India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

AZB & Partners

Merger of Gruh Finance with Bandhan Bank

$3 billion

HDFC

Partners
Zia Mody
Ashwath Rau
Anu Tiwari
Vipul Jain

Senior Associates
Himanshoo Tembe
Aditya Alok
Tanya Pahwa

AZB & Partners

DLF Cyber City Developers' acqusition of
a) DLF Lands;
b) Paliwal;
c) Nambi;
d) DLF Info Park; and
e) Fairleaf.

$418.4 million

GIC Realty

Partners
Sai Krishna Bharathan
Vivek Bajaj

Senior Associate
Vydyanathan L.

AZB & Partners

FAL Corporation sale of shares in
ICICI Lombard General Insurance

$369.5 million

FAL Corporation

Partners
Varoon Chandra
Arvind Ramesh
Richa Choudhary

Senior Associate
Rutunjay Singh

TT&A Advocates and Solicitors

GMR Airports' issuance of non-convertible bonds

$308.14 million

DB International
Deutsche Bank

Partner
Sonali Mahapatra

Managing Associate
P Shankar

Senior Associate
Dhwani Shah

Associates
Sharmila Ratnam
Amrita Vyas

Khaitan & Co

Advent International's acquisition of innerwear brand Enamor

$35.3 million

Varenna Holdings

Partners
Mayank Singh
Moin Ladha
Arun Scaria
Sagardeep Rathi
Pranjal Prateek
Rashmi Deshpande
Shailendra Bhandare

Principal Associates
Rohit Ambast
Nidhi Killawala
Shantanu Gupta

Senior Associate
Saurav Dan

Associates
Akarshita Dhawan
Sukanya Natrajan
Suraj Prasad Meher
Kairavi Shah
Maitreye Parashar
Deeksha Agarwalla
Sanjay Krishna
Soumil Garg
Chirag Narasimiah
Vaibhav Kulkarni
Swati Bala
Amruthavarshini
Bhargav N Rao
Rhea Ghansani

HSA Advocates

Lisbrine's investment in Smartworks Coworking Spaces

$25 million

Smartworks Coworking Spaces

Partner
Ramya Hariharam

Associate
Dipti Srivastava

Khaitan & Co

Intergrow Brands’ fundraising from Investcorp

$11.41 million

Investcorp Private Equity Fund II

Partners
Vineet Shingal
Manisha Shroff

Principal Associates
Radhika Agarwal
Riya Bhattacharjee

Senior Associates
Rohan Shrivastava
Gautam Suseel
Sourav Dan

Associates
Pratik Jain
Vasundhra Minocha
Siddhant Gajendra Shetty
Amulya Sharma
Julie Roy
Parivesh Agrawal
Utsav Lohia
Shailendra Bhandare
Rhea Ghanshani

Khaitan & Co

UrbanPiper's Series A fundraise from Tiger Global, Sequoia, and existing angel investors

$7.5 million

Urbanpiper Technology

Partners
Ganesh Prasad
Sanjay Khan Nagra

Senior Associate
B N Vivek

Associates
Sharada Krishnamurthy
Vaibhav Vivek Kulkarni

AZB & Partners

G9 Asia VI's acquisition of stake in R. J. Warehousing

Undisclosed

G9 Asia VI

Partners
Sai Krishna Bharathan
Shivani Kabra
Rohit Bajaj

Senior Associates
Nitin Gupta
Shridha Malhotra Gursahani

AZB & Partners

Telesonic Networks acquisition of OFC undertaking from Bharti Airtel

$797.6 million

Bharti Airtel
Telesonic Networks

Partners
Ajay Bahl
Gautam Saha
Kamal Shankar
Abhinav Ashwin
Bharat Apte

AZB & Partners

Varenna's acquisition of DTPL's equity share

Undisclosed

Varenna Holdings

Partners
Samir Gandhi
Hemangini Dadwal

Senior Associate
Akshat Kulsreshtha

Khaitan & Co

Gallagher's acquisition of stake in Edelweiss Insurance Brokers

Undisclosed

Edelweiss Financial Services

Director
Vinita Krishnan

Partner
Anuj Shah

Principal Associate
Nayantara Kutty
Jimmy Bhatt

Senior Associate
Harsh Khemka

Associate
Srishti Mukherjee

Khaitan & Co

Italtractor ITM SpA Group's joint venture with DOZCO

Undisclosed

Italtractor ITM SpA Group

Director
Vinita Krishnan

Partners
Arindam Ghosh
Sameer Sah
Ayush Mehrotra

Principal Associate
Shabnam Shaikh

Senior Associates
Kevin Shah
Pratyushprava Saha

Associates
Priyanka Venkatasubramanian
Abhishek Deodhar
Consultant
Subramanian Ramaswamy

S&R Associates

Blackstone's investment in Aakash Educational Services and Aakash Educational Services' sale of equity shares

 

Aakash Educational Services

Head of Competition Practice
Simran Dhir

Partner
Mohit Gogia

Associates
Kanika Khanna
Rachita Bhat
Anshul Chopra
Apoorv Chaturvedi
Dhruv Agarwal
Ishika Rout

Japan

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Nishimura & Asahi

Agreement between Honda and Hitachi for the integration of Hitachi Automotive Systems, Keihin Corporation, Showa Corporation and Nissin Kogyo

$15.5 billion

Honda Motor

Partners
Naoko Shimura
Yuki Oi
Azusa Nakajima
Tomohiro Takagi
Takeshi Nemoto
Shingo Yamada

Counsels
Kazuya Oishi
Toshihito Yazaki
Satoshi Niki
Tsukasa Tahara

Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Gledhill

Lendlease Global Commercial's IPO

$567.2 million

Lendlease Global Commercial Trust Management

Partners
Jerry Koh
Ho Kin San
Long Pee Hua
Lim Mei Ann
Jonathan Lee
Ong Kangxin

RHTLaw Taylor Wessing

BreadTalk 's acquisition of Food Junction Management

$64 million

BreadTalk Group

Partners
Ch’ng Li-Ling
Yang Eu Jin
Rizwi Wun

RHTLaw Taylor Wessing

Grab's acquisition of Telanav

 

Telanav

Partner
Jonathan Kok

South Korea

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Paul Hastings

Daelim Industrial's acquisition of Cariflex Business Unit of Kraton Corporation

$530 million

Daelim Industrial

Partners
Daniel Kim
Jane Song
Steven Sandretto
Tom Mounteer

Of Counsels
Michael Wise
Todd Schneider

Associates
Albert Nah
Daniel Liebowitz;
April White
Han Kyu Lee
Attorney
Hae-in Park

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