Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Davis Polk

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co sale of BPO business owned by its subsidiary SPi Global Holdings, Inc to an acquisition vehicle controlled by CVC Capital Partners

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co

Mark J.Lehmkuhler, John D. Paton (Partners), Sam Kelso, Randy Samson (Associates)

Davis Polk

CNOOC’s proposed acquisition of Nexen

$15.1 billion

CNOOC Ltd

George R. Bason Jr, Howard Zhang, Leonard Kreynin, Kirtee Kapoor, John B. Reynolds III, Paul Chow, Antony Dapiran (Partners), James E. Elworth, Brian J. Snyder (Associates)

Hogan Lovells

Kingdom Holding Co’s acquisition of strategic stake in the largest internet consumer sales company in China, 360Buy Jingdong Inc

$400 million

Kingdom Holding Co

Mark Mazo, Steven Robinson, Colin Craik (Partners), Lu Zhou (Senior associate)

Kirkland & Ellis International (U.S. counsel)

China Nuokang Bio-pharmaceutical Inc’s merger with Kingbird Mergerco. Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kingbird Investment Inc

$43.4 million

The buyer group

David Zhang, Stephanie Tang, Jesse Sheley (Partners), Siwei Chen, Julia Yu, Steve Lin (Associates)

Maples and Calder (Cayman Islands legal counsel)

China Nuokang Bio-pharmaceutical Inc’s merger with Kingbird Mergerco. Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kingbird Investment Inc

$43.4 million

China Nuokang Bio-pharmaceutical Inc

Jenny Nip (Partner)

Paul Hastings

Global depositary receipts (GDRs) offering by Seoul-headquartered Youngone Corp

$114 million

Bookrunner –

Credit Suisse

Dong Chul Kim (Counsel), Steve Kang, Jared Lee (Associates)

Paul Hastings

Lotte Shopping’s equity-linked bond

$303 million

Lead arrangers

 Daniel Kim, David Grimm and Steven Winegar (Partners),

 Steve Kang (Associate)

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (U.S. counsel)

China Nuokang Bio-pharmaceutical Inc’s merger with Kingbird Mergerco. Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kingbird Investment Inc

$43.4 million

Independent Committee of China Nuokang Bio-pharmaceutical Inc

Peter Huang (Partner), Olivia Odell, Ning Dong (Associates)