China
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | 1.4 billion pounds ($1.74 billion) | Ctrip.com International | Julie Gao, Haiping Li, John Adebiyi, Alex Jupp, Mark Darley (Partners) | |
Travers Smith | 1.4 billion pounds ($1.74 billion) | Ctrip.com International |
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Pinsent Masons | 1.4 billion pounds ($1.74 billion) | Skyscanner Holdings | Alan Diamond, Rosalie Chadwick (Partners) | |
King & Wood Mallesons | $3.5 billion | Apex Technology |
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom | $3.5 billion | Apex Technology |
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Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz | $3.5 billion | Lexmark International |
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Maples and Calder | $3.5 billion | Apex Technology | Greg Knowles (Partner)
Michael Li (Associate) | |
White & Case | $3.5 billion | Bank of China, China CITIC Bank (lenders) |
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom | KongZhong Corp's go-private deal
| $299 million
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| Peter Huang (Partner)
Andre Zhu (Counsel)
James Chang, Peter Qiu (Associates) |
Linklaters | National Bank of Canada’s panda bond issuance | $517.7 million | National Bank of Canada (NBC) | Hwang Hwa Sim (Partner)
Li En Wee (Senior Associate) |
McCarthy Tétrault | National Bank of Canada’s panda bond issuance | $517.7 million | National Bank of Canada (NBC) |
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Jun He Law Offices | National Bank of Canada’s panda bond issuance | $517.7 million | National Bank of Canada (NBC) |
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Davis Polk & Wardwell | 5.5% Regulation S notes offering by Wealth Driven Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fosun International | $290 million | Initial purchasers | William F. Barron (Partner)
Margie Chan (Counsel)
Bingqing Pan (Associate) |
Linklaters | China Yangtze Power’s concurrent issuance of USD and EUR zero coupon exchangeable bonds | $300,000,000 and EUR 200,000,000 | China Yangtze Power Co Ltd | Hwang Hwa Sim (Partner)
Lipton Li (Senior Associate) |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | Koor Industries’ sale of its 40% stake in Adama Agricultural Solutions to China National Agrochemical Corp |
| China National Agrochemical Corp (CNAC) | Shaolin Luo (Partner) |
Hong Kong
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Norton Rose Fulbright | Sino-Ocean Holdings’ and KKR’s investment in Beijing Capital Juda | HKD 1.48 billion (about US$190 million) | Beijing Capital Juda | Psyche Tai (Partner)
Rachel Chan (Counsel)
Virginia Lee, Jane Yau (Associates) |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | Sino-Ocean Holdings’ and KKR’s investment in Beijing Capital Juda | HKD 1.48 billion (about US$190 million) | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) | Katie Sudol, Celia Lam (Partners) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Su Sih’s secondary offering of TTM Technologies’ common stock | approximately $152 million | Su Sih Ltd | James C. Lin (Partner)
Terrence R. O’Donnell (Counsel)
Kevin Zhang, Bo Huang (Registered Foreign Lawyers)
Veronica Orecharova (Associate) |
Norton Rose Fulbright | Vallourec's acquisiton of majority stake in Anhui Tianda Oil Pipe Company |
| Vallourec | Emma de Ronde (Partner)
Nick Wilson (Senior Associate)
Graeme Mackay (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
Wayne Lee (Associate) |
Macau
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Ashurst | Studio City’s offering of senior secured notes due 2019 and due 2021 | $1.2 billion | Studio City Co Ltd | Anna-Marie Slot, Stuart Rubin, David Nirenberg (Partners)
Ethan Perry, Sharon Kim (Counsels)
Li Jiang (Senior Associate)
Deland Ji (Associate) |
White & Case | Studio City’s offering of senior secured notes due 2019 and due 2021 |
| Bank of China Ltd (Macau Branch), Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, ANZ, BOC International (bookrunners) | Eugene Man, Rob Mathews, Jessica Zhou (Partners)
Stephen Howard, Jessica Tam, Sabrina Lee, Anna Soroka, Christina Lui (Associates)
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Korea
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Export-Import Bank of Korea’s offering of floating-rate notes due 2018 | $200 Million |
| Eugene C. Gregor, James C. Lin (Partners)
Tae-Hun Kim (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel)
Veronica Orecharova (Associate) |
Japan
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Norton Rose Fulbright | Mitsui and MOL’s joint venture company with AKOFS Offshore and acquisition of a subsea equipment support vessel | N/A | Mitsui & Co Ltd, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) | Paul Coggins, Chris Viner (Partners)
Jason Lemann (Of Counsel)
Yui Ota, Jonathan Wang, Jennifer Brightling, Mayuko Sakai (Associates) |