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 |
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