Jurisdiction – China

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Han Kun Law Offices

Sinochem Oil’s acquisition of a Northeastern China-based petroleum products storage and marketing company

Undisclosed

Sinochem Oil

 

Han Kun Law Offices

Vipshop Holdings Ltd’s follow-on public offering on the New York Stock Exchange

Undisclosed

Vipshop Holdings Ltd

 

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Vipshop Holdings Ltd’s follow-on public offering on the New York Stock Exchange

Undisclosed

Underwriters:

1.Goldman Sachs (Asia)LLC

2.Deutsche Bank Securities Inc

3.J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Leiming Chen

(Partner)

 

Blake Dunlap, Jonathan Cantor

(Counsel)

 

David Lee,

Tianyi Chen

(Registered foreign lawyers)

 

Jennie Getsin,

Anthony Minervini

(Associates)

Jurisdiction – Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Davis Polk & Wardwell

NagaCorp Ltd’s top-up placement of 200,000,000 shares

$154 million

Placing agents:

1.Morgan Stanley & Co International plc

2.BNP Paribas Capital (Asia-Pacific) Ltd

William Barron, Bonnie Chan,

Paul Chow

(Partners)

 

Peter Cheng,

Wilson Chan

(Associates)

 

David Pendergast

(Registered foreign lawyer)

 

Ling Jessica Zhang (Legal assistant)

Paul Hastings

Ayala Land Inc’s top-up placement

$300 million

Ayala Land Inc

Patricia Tan Openshaw,

Steven Winegar

(Partners)

 

 Jordan Baggs

(Associate)

Paul Hastings

Glorious Property Holdings Ltd’s issuance of additional senior notes due 2018

$150 million

Glorious Property Holdings Ltd

Hong Kong team: Vivian Lam,

David Grimm

(Partners)

 

Erika Wan,

Celia Chau,

May Lun,

Jordan Baggs

(Associates)

 

London team:

Christian Parker

(Partner)

 

Karina Bielkowicz

(Associate)

Jurisdiction – Japan

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Japan Tobacco Inc's global share sale  

$7.8 billion

Japan Tobacco Inc

Minister of Finance of Japan

 

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Japan Tobacco Inc's global share sale  

$7.8 billion

Joint lead managers and bookrunners:

1.Goldman Sachs International

2.Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd

3.J.P. Morgan Securities plc

 

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Japan Tobacco Inc's global share sale  

$7.8 billion

Joint lead managers and bookrunners:

1.Goldman Sachs International

2.Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd

3.J.P. Morgan Securities plc

Alan Cannon

(Partner)

 

Yi Wang

(Foreign lawyer)

 

Jon Cantor

(Counsel)

 

Tadashi Okamoto,

Vanessa Cohen,

Andrew Pagliughi,

Jennie Getsin

(Associates)

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Sale of Intelligence Holdings to Temp Holdings

68 billion yen

($716 million)

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and affiliates

David Sneider, Sinead O’Shea,

David Vann

(Partners)

 

Sayo Kondo, Noritaka Kumamoto,

Makiko Harunari,

Étienne Renaudeau (Associates)

Sullivan & Cromwell

Japan Tobacco Inc's global share sale  

$7.8 billion

1.Japan Tobacco Inc

2.Minister of Finance of Japan

Izumi Akai

(Partner)

Where exact value is not known, ALB will use an approximate value based on available market data or coverage.

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