Jurisdiction – China
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Commerce & Finance Law Offices Sunac China Holdings’ Regulation S offering of 9.375 percent senior notes due 2018 $500 million Initial purchasers: 1.HSBC Ltd 2.BOCI Asia Ltd 3.Citigroup Global Markets Ltd 4.ICBC International Securities Ltd 5.Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Ltd 6.Morgan Stanley & Co International plc Davis Polk & Wardwell Greentown China Holdings’ Regulation S offering of 8.5 percent senior notes due 2018 $300 million Initial purchasers: 1.Deutsche Bank AG,SG branch 2.BOCI Asia Ltd 3.Goldman Sachs (Asia) 4.HSBC Ltd 5. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Ltd 6.Standard Chartered Bank 7.UBS AG, Hong Kong branch William F. Barron (Partner) Gerhard Radtke (Registered foreign lawyer-counsel) Tae-Hun Kim, Bingqing Pan (Registered foreign lawyers) Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel) Jessica Ling Zhang (Legal assistant) Davis Polk & Wardwell RDA Microelectronics’ offer for sale of 8,350,000 American Depositary Shares $73.2 million Underwriters: 1.Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC 2.Morgan Stanley & Co International Plc 3.Barclays Capital Inc James C. Lin, John D. Paton (Partners) Dan Ouyang (Registered foreign lawyer) Alon Gurfinkel, Marcie A. Goldstein (Counsel) Davis Polk & Wardwell Sunac China Holdings’ Regulation S offering of 9.375 percent senior notes due 2018 $500 million Joint bookrunners/Initial purchasers: 1.HSBC Ltd 2.BOCI Asia Ltd 3.Citigroup Global Markets Ltd 4.ICBC International Capital Ltd 5.Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Ltd 6.Morgan Stanley & Co International plc William F. Barron, John D. Paton (Partners) Margie Chan, Hua Fan, Rhiannon Nakano (Associates) Harold Tin (Registered foreign lawyer) Lu Tan, Ling Jessica Zhang, Xinyi (Sandy) Wang (Legal assistants) Maples and Calder Alpha Investment Partners’ acquisition of Sparkle Bright Holdings’ 80 percent issued share capital Undisclosed Alpha Investment Partners Ltd Jenny Nip (Partner) Juno Huang (Associate) Maples and Calder Dorsett Hospitality International Ltd’s issue of 6 percent bonds due 2018 CNY 850 million ($135.9 million) Dorsett Hospitality International Ltd Christine Chang (Partner) Paul Hastings Alpha Investment Partners’ acquisition of Sparkle Bright Holdings’ 80 percent issued share capital Undisclosed Sparkle Bright Holdings Ltd Jingtian & Gongcheng Greentown China Holdings’ Regulation S offering of 8.5 percent senior notes due 2018 $300 million Initial purchasers: 1.Deutsche Bank AG,SG branch 2.BOCI Asia Ltd 3.Goldman Sachs (Asia) 4.HSBC Ltd 5. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Ltd 6.Standard Chartered Bank 7.UBS AG, Hong Kong branch Jincheng, Tongda & Neal Law Firm Sunac China Holdings’ Regulation S offering of 9.375 percent senior notes due 2018 $500 million Sunac China Holdings Ltd T&C Law Firm Greentown China Holdings’ Regulation S offering of 8.5 percent senior notes due 2018 $300 million Greentown China Holdings Ltd
Jurisdiction – Hong Kong
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton TSMC Global’s dual tranche issue of 0.95 percent notes due 2016 and 1.625 percent notes $350 million and $1.15 billion Lead manager: Goldman Sachs International Ltd Clifford Chance Investment and participation as founding share-holders in OTC Clearing Hong Kong Ltd Undisclosed 1.Agricultural Bank of China Ltd, Hong Kong branch 2.Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd 3.Bank of Communications Co Ltd, Hong Kong branch 4.The Bank of East Asia Ltd 5.CCB International Securities Ltd 6.Citibank, N.A. 7.Deutsche Bank AG 8.HSBC Ltd 9.Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Ltd 10.J.P. Morgan 11.Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd Paget Dare Bryan, Neeraj Budhwani (Partners) Terry Yang, Isaac Stewart, Christina Hui (Senior associates) Davis Polk & Wardwell Placement of 300,000,000 shares held by Nabors Drilling International II in Honghua Group HK$1.08 billion ($140 million) Morgan Stanley & Co International plc Paul Chow, James C. Lin (Partners) Shih-Jern Liang (Registered foreign lawyer) Linklaters Dorsett Hospitality International Ltd’s issue of 6 percent bonds due 2018 CNY 850 million ($135.9 million) Joint lead managers: 1.Barclays Bank 2.PLC CITIC Securities Corporate Finance (HK) Ltd 3.Deutsche Bank AG, Hong Kong branch 4.HSBC Ltd Trustee: 1.DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Ltd Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy FPM Power Holdings’ purchase of a majority stake in a Singapore-located 771MW power project from GMR Infrastructure Ltd S$660 million ($537 million) FPM Power Holdings Ltd Gary Wigmore, Stuart Harray (Partners) Desiree Woo (Counsel) Andrew Compton, Nicholas Atwood, Mark Withey (Associates) Parinna Lau (Trainee solicitor) Reed Smith Richards Butler Dorsett Hospitality International Ltd’s issue of 6 percent bonds due 2018 CNY 850 million ($135.9 million) Dorsett Hospitality International Ltd Sidley Austin Sunac China Holdings’ Regulation S offering of 9.375 percent senior notes due 2018 $500 million Sunac China Holdings Ltd White & Case Greentown China Holdings’ Regulation S offering of 8.5 percent senior notes due 2018 $300 million Greentown China Holdings Ltd White & Case FPM Power Holdings’ purchase of a majority stake in a Singapore-located 771MW power project from GMR Infrastructure Ltd S$660 million ($537 million) GMR Infrastructure Ltd
Jurisdiction – Japan
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Baker & McKenzie ORIX Corp’s purchase of 96.09 percent equity stake in Asahi Fiber Glass Co Ltd Undisclosed ORIX Corp Naoaki Eguchi (Partner) Yasuhisa Takatori, Tetsuo Tsujimoto (Senior associates) Baker & McKenzie Shinsei Bank’s loan provision to JAG Energy Co Ltd JPY 1.6 billion ($20 million) Shinsei Bank Naoaki Eguchi (Partner) Tsutomu Kobayashi (Senior associate) Jones Day Mitsui Chemicals’ acquisition of Heraeus Holding GmbH’s dental business €450 million ($578 million) Mitsui Chemicals Inc Dan Matsuda (Of counsel) Hiromitsu Miyakawa (Partner) Tetsuya Funo, Masayuki Horiike, Masatoshi Adachi (Associates)
Jurisdiction – Taiwan
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Maples and Calder Foxconn (Far East) Ltd’s issue of 1.28 percent notes due 2016 and floating rate notes due 2016 $2 billion (combined value of MTN programme) Foxconn (Far East) Ltd Christine Chang (Partner) Juno Huang (Associate) Maples and Calder TSMC Global’s dual tranche issue of 0.95 percent notes due 2016 and 1.625 percent notes $350 million and $1.15 billion Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd Christine Chang (Partner) Juno Huang (Associate)
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