Jurisdiction – India
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co Gruner+Jahr Indian subsidiary Networkplay’s acquisition of 79 mobile ad network business of VUN Digital Private Ltd Confidential Gruner+Jahr Vidyut Gulati (Partner) Varun Nair (Associate) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co MakeMyTrip Ltd’s acquisition of the Hotel Travel Group Confidential MakeMyTrip Ltd Vidyut Gulati (Partner) Siddhartha Sen (Senior associate) Neha Yadav (Associate) Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co United Breweries Group’s sale of 27.4 percent stake in United Spirits Ltd to Diageo plc Rs. 111,665 million ($2,031 million) United Breweries Group Cyril Shroff Nivedita Rao Nisha Kaur Uberoi (Partners) Taxation Nanda Shah (Senior advisor – Taxation) AZB & Partners GE Equity International Mauritius’ acquisition of 7.69 percent of Syngene International Ltd’s paid up equity share capital Rs. 1.25 billion ($23 million) GE Equity International Mauritius Essaji Vahanvati (Partner) Nandish Vyas (Associate) AZB & Partners IFC’s acquisition of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd through subscription of foreign currency convertible bonds issued by the latter Rs. 2.1 billion ($40 million) International Finance Corporation (IFC) Gautam Saha (Partner) Shuchi Sinha (Associate) AZB & Partners IFC’s acquisition of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd’s share capital Rs. 527 million ($10 million) International Finance Corporation (IFC) Gautam Saha (Partner) AZB & Partners IFC’s acquisition of Religare Enterprises Ltd’s equity shares and compulsorily convertible debentures Rs. 4.05 billion ($75 million) Religare Enterprises Vinati Kastia Anil Kasturi (Partners) AZB & Partners Sale of 50 percent of TATA Autocomp Systems Ltd’s stake in TACO Yazaki Autocomp Ltd to TACO and Yazaki Corporation Ltd Undisclosed TATA Autocomp Systems Ltd Ashwin Ramanathan (Partner) Vijay Manjrekar (Associate) DLA Piper LLP, Hamburg Gruner+Jahr Indian subsidiary Networkplay’s acquisition of 79 mobile ad network business of VUN Digital Private Ltd Confidential Gruner+Jahr Herbert Smith Freehills United Breweries Group’s sale of 27.4 percent stake in United Spirits Ltd to Diageo plc Rs. 111,665 million ($2,031 million) United Breweries Group InduLaw Gruner+Jahr Indian subsidiary Networkplay’s acquisition of 79 mobile ad network business of VUN Digital Private Ltd Confidential VUN Digital Private Ltd Platinum Partners United Breweries Group’s sale of 27.4 percent stake in United Spirits Ltd to Diageo plc Rs. 111,665 million ($2,031 million) Diageo plc Nihar Mody Yash Mohanram Piusha Bose Slaughter and May United Breweries Group’s sale of 27.4 percent stake in United Spirits Ltd to Diageo plc Rs. 111,665 million ($2,031 million) Diageo plc Simon Nicholls Robin Ogle Padraig Cronin Stephen Powell Ed Fife Sara Luder Susie Middlemiss Charles Cameron David Waterfield (Partners)
Jurisdiction – Indonesia
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners PT Expresso Transindo Utama Tbk's IPO $61 million PT Expresso Transindo Utama Tbk Makarim & Taira S PT Expresso Transindo Utama Tbk's IPO $61 million Underwriters: 1. J.P. Morgan 2. Mandiri Sekuritas Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (International counsel) PT Expresso Transindo Utama Tbk's IPO $61 million PT Expresso Transindo Utama Tbk
Jurisdiction – Malaysia
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Abdullah Chan Integration of SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad’s tender rig business with that of Seadrill Ltd $2.9 billion SapuraKencana Petroleum
Jurisdiction – Singapore
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Clifford Chance Integration of SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad’s tender rig business with that of Seadrill Ltd $2.9 billion SapuraKencana Petroleum Lee Taylor (Partner) Melissa Ng (Counsel) Danielle Wu (Associate) Clifford Chance PT Expresso Transindo Utama Tbk's IPO $61 million Underwriters: 1. J.P. Morgan 2. Mandiri Sekuritas Raymond Tong, Johannes Juette (Partners) Jeremy Ward (Associate) Sophie Coster (Trainee) Dacheng Wong Alliance Investments into Ezetap Mobile Solutions Undisclosed Ezetap Mobile Solutions Aloysius Wee Yang Yen Thaw Richa Chaturvedi Linklaters Issue of United Overseas Bank Ltd’s 2.875 percent fixed rate subordinated notes $500 million United Overseas Bank Ltd Kevin Wong Cynthia Teo Tilak Shah (Partners) O’Melveny & Myers Block trade share sale of 3.4 billion shares of PT Pakuwon Jati Tbk by BSL Investment Inc IDR816,000,000,000 ($85 million) 1.UBS AG 2. CLSA Andrew Hutton (partner and associate Michele Discepola Stamford Law Corporation Invicta Holdings Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Kian Ann Engineering Ltd S$192.8 million ($158 million) Invicta Holdings Ltd Bernard Lui, Lim Swee Yong (Directors) Wiersholm (Norway counsel) Integration of SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad’s tender rig business with that of Seadrill Ltd $2.9 billion Seadrill Ltd WongPartnership Invicta Holdings Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Kian Ann Engineering Ltd S$192.8 million ($158 million) Invicta Holdings Ltd Mark Choy Audrey Chng Christy Lim (Partners) WongPartnership Issue of United Overseas Bank Ltd’s 2.875 percent fixed rate subordinated notes $500 million United Overseas Bank Ltd Hui Choon Yuen Trevor Chuan (Partners) WongPartnership Singapore listing of loan facility to Ying Li International Real Estate Ltd S$100 million ($81.69 million) Lead arrangers: 1. Standard Chartered Bank 2. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd Christy Lim (Partner)
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