Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lead lawyer(s)

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

CJ HelloVision’s IPO of common shares

293 billion won ($267 million)

CJ HelloVision and its selling shareholders

Yong G. Lee (Partner)

Aram Yang, Eun Sang Hwang, Amanda Cleaver (Associates)

Commerce & Finance Law Offices

Issuance of 5.750 percent and 7.125 percent senior notes due 2017 and 2022 respectively

$1 billion

 Initial Purchasers

(HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays Bank, Goldman Sachs)

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Acquisition of Providence Equity Partners' stake in iQiyi

Baidu Inc

Howard Zhang and Miranda So

Issuance of 5.750 percent and 7.125 percent senior notes due 2017 and 2022 respectively

$1 billion

Initial Purchasers

(HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays Bank, Goldman Sachs)

William Barron

DLA Piper

China Mass Media Corp’s merger with CMM Holdings Ltd

$3.6 million

China Mass Media Holdings Limited

Dorsey & Whitney

China Mass Media Corp’s merger with CMM Holdings Ltd

$3.6 million

Piper Jaffray & Co

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank’s sale of its remaining 80.1 percent interest in CLSA to CITICS Securities International Company Ltd

$941 million

Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank

Guillaume Rougier-Brierre

Kirkland & Ellis

Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank’s sale of its remaining 80.1 percent interest in CLSA to CITICS Securities International Company Ltd

$941 million

CITIC Securities Company Ltd

Nick Norris, Steven Tran

Joey Chau

Derek Poon

Maples and Calder

China Mass Media Corp’s merger with CMM Holdings Ltd

$3.6 million

China Mass Media Corp

Jenny Nip

MdME

Issuance of 5.750 percent and 7.125 percent senior notes due 2017 and 2022 respectively

$1 billion

Soho China Ltd

Rothschild

Sale of Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank’s remaining 80.1 percent interest in CLSA to CITICS Securities International Company Ltd

$941 million

CITIC Securities Company Ltd

Shearman & Sterling

China Mass Media Corp’s merger with CMM Holdings Ltd

$3.6 million

Special committee

Sidley Austin

Issuance of 5.750 percent and 7.125 percent senior notes due 2017 and 2022 respectively

$1 billion

Soho China Ltd

Matthew Sheridan

Simmons & Simmons

Kuroda Precision Industries’ acquisition of the Jena Tec division of Avingtrans Plc

Undisclosed

Kuroda Precision Industries

Jason Daniel (Japan Country Head)

Ed Baker (London corporate partner) Frank Hollstein

TMI Associates

Kuroda Precision Industries’ acquisition of the Jena Tec division of Avingtrans Plc

Undisclosed

Kuroda Precision Industries

Nobuyuki Watanabe (Partner)

Yu Hosaka (Associate)

Walkers

Issuance of 5.750 percent and 7.125 percent senior notes due 2017 and 2022 respectively

$1 billion

Soho China Ltd

Kristen Kwok

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Acquisition of Providence Equity Partners' stake in iQiyi

Providence Equity Partner

Anthony Wang

Zhong Lun Law Firm

Issuance of 5.750 percent and 7.125 percent senior notes due 2017 and 2022 respectively

$1 billion

Soho China Ltd