Firm (s)

Deal

Value

Client

Lead lawyer(s)

Allen & Overy

Cash sale of ING’s insurance business units in Hong Kong and Macau, and its Thailand life insurance operation to Pacific Century Group

$2.14 bln

ING

Gary McLean

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Cash sale of ING’s insurance business units in Hong Kong and Macau, and its Thailand life insurance operation to Pacific Century Group

$2.14 bln

Pacific Century Group

Heiner Braun, Royce Miller, Teresa Ko, Robert ten Have and Kathleen Healy

Freehills

Guohua’s acquisition of 75 percent stake of Hydro Tasmania’s Musselroe wind farm.

Musselroe wind farm

King & Wood Mallesons

Guohua’s acquisition of 75 percent stake of Hydro Tasmania’s Musselroe wind farm.

Guohua Energy Investment Co Ltd

Xiong Jin

Morrison & Foerster

Purchase of a 70 percent stake in U.S. carrier Sprint Nextel Corp by Softbank Corp

$20.1 bln

Softbank Corp

Ken Siegel and Robert Townsend

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Purchase of a 70 percent stake in U.S. carrier Sprint Nextel Corp by Softbank Corp

$20.1 bln

Softbank Corp

Norton Rose

Loan financing of two new generation Ramform Titan-class seismic survey vessels to Petroleum Geo-Services ASA

$250 mln

1.     Japan Bank for International Cooperation

2.     Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Jeremy Gibb

Issuance of New York law governed high yield notes 

$400 mln

Sunac China Holdings Ltd

Ji Liu, Liza Lee, and Peter Haslam

Paul Hastings

Acquisition of all shares in Dayton Progress Corp and the components business of Canada’s The Anchor Danly Co

$200 mln

MISUMI Group Inc

Hajime Kanagawa and Toshiyuki Arai

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Softbank Corp’s purchase of a 70 percent stake in U.S. carrier Sprint Nextel Corp

$20.1 bln

Sprint Nextel Corp