Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Davis Polk & Wardwell

China Oil And Gas Group’s issue of 5.25 percent senior notes due 2018

$350 million

Initial purchasers:

1.Deutsche Bank AG, SG branch

2.Morgan Stanley & Co International

William Barron,

John Paton

(Partners)

Gerhard Radtke

(Registered foreign lawyer-counsel)

Bingqing Pan

(Registered foreign lawyer)

Alon Gurfinkel, Catherine Martin

(Counsel)

Margie Chan, Rhiannon Nakano, Susan Klavens Hutner

(Associates)

Raymond Lai,

James Gao

(Legal assistants)

Herbert Smith Freehills

China National Offshore Oil Corp’s acquisition of additional interests in Queensland Curtis LNG project, and purchase of increased LNG volumes

Undisclosed

China National Offshore Oil Corp

Anna Howell,

Stuart Barrymore,

Matt Bull,

Hilary Lau,

Nick Heggert

(Partners)

Amos Carrington,

Sarah Pollock,

Michael Boyce

(Senior associates)

Yida Xu,

Jane Ballard,

Hao Su

(Associates)

Jingtian &

Gongcheng

China Oil And Gas Group’s issue of 5.25 percent senior notes due 2018

$350 million

China Oil And Gas Group Ltd

King & Wood Mallesons

China Oil And Gas Group’s issue of 5.25 percent senior notes due 2018

$350 million

Initial purchasers:

1.Deutsche Bank AG, SG branch

2.Morgan Stanley & Co International

King & Wood Mallesons

China National Offshore Oil Corp’s acquisition of additional interests in Queensland Curtis LNG project, and purchase of increased LNG volumes

Undisclosed

Queensland Curtis LNG

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allens

QBE Insurance Group’s issue of 2.4 percent senior notes due 2018

$600 million

QBE Insurance Group

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Sinochem Hong Kong’s offer of subordinated guaranteed

perpetual capital securities

$600 million

Sinochem Hong Kong

Eugene Gregor,

Paul Chow,

John Paton

(Partners)

Bate Yu,

Sin Joh Chuang, Sarah Joy

(Associates)

Catherine Martin (Counsel)

 Lin Xu,

Yumin (Stella) Zhao

(Legal assistants)

Davis Polk & Wardwell

QBE Insurance Group’s issue of 2.4 percent senior notes due 2018

$600 million

Initial purchasers:

1.Barclays Capital Inc

2.Morgan Stanley & Co

Eugene Gregor,

John D. Paton

(Partners)

David Pendergast

(Registered foreign

lawyer)

Alon Gurfinkel,

Marcie Goldstein

(Counsel)

Andrew Qu

(Legal assistant)

Haiwen & Partners

Sinochem Hong Kong’s offer of subordinated guaranteed perpetual capital securities

$600 million

Managers

Herbert Smith Freehills

Goldman Sachs’ investment in Den Networks

$110 million

Goldman Sachs

Austin Sweeney

(Head of corporate, Asia region)

Hogan Lovells

Top Spring International Holdings’ disposal of interests in Top Spring Taihu Bay to Jian Hong Holdings

$88.3 million

Top Spring International Holdings Ltd

Terence Lau

(Partner)

Sheryl Cheung

(Associate)

Mayer Brown JSM

Beijing Enterprises Water Group’s issue of 4.625 percent guaranteed bonds due 2018

$500 million

Beijing Enterprises Water Group Ltd

Jeckle Chiu,

Phill Smith

(Partners)

Joshua Ng,

Clara Li

(Associates)

Sidley Austin

China Oil And Gas Group’s issue of 5.25 percent senior notes due 2018

$350 million

China Oil And Gas Group Ltd

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom

QBE Insurance Group’s issue of 2.4 percent senior notes due 2018

$600 million

QBE Insurance Group

Tian Yuan Law Firm

Sinochem Hong Kong’s offer of subordinated guaranteed perpetual capital securities

$600 million

Sinochem Hong Kong