Jurisdiction – China

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Financing for Alibaba Group

$8 billion

Alibaba Group

 

Global Law Office

Wuzhou International Holdings’ global initial public offering and listing on HKEx

$178 million

Wuzhou International Holdings Ltd

 

Jingtian & Gongcheng

Wuzhou International Holdings’ global initial public offering and listing on HKEx

$178 million

Joint sponsors:

1.BOCOM International (Asia)

2.Macquarie Capital Securities

 

Joint global coordinators: 1.BOCOM International Securities

2.Macquarie Capital Securities

 

Joint bookrunners and lead managers:

1.BOCOM International Securities

2.First Shanghai Securities

3.GF Securities (Hong Kong) Brokerage 4.Macquarie Capital Securities

 

King & Wood Mallesons

Financing for Alibaba Group

$8 billion

Lead arrangers:

1.ANZ Banking Group 2.Citigroup Global Markets Asia

3.Credit Suisse AG (SG branch)

4.DBS Bank

5.Deutsche Bank AG(SG branch)

6.HSBC

7.JPMorgan Chase Bank (HK branch)

8.Mizuho Corporate Bank

9.Morgan Stanley Asia

 

Sullivan & Cromwell

China Mengniu Dairy’s proposed acquisition of Yashili International Holdings

$1.6 billion

China Mengniu Dairy Co

Kay Ian Ng,

Gwen Wong (Partners)

 

Daniel Tang, Yeqing Zheng,

Jessica Suet Hang Li

(Associates)

Jurisdiction – Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Paul Hastings

Wuzhou International Holdings’ global initial public offering and listing on HKEx

$178 million

Joint sponsors:

1.BOCOM International (Asia)

2.Macquarie Capital Securities

 

Joint global coordinators: 1.BOCOM International Securities

2.Macquarie Capital Securities

 

Joint bookrunners and lead managers:

1.BOCOM International Securities

2.First Shanghai Securities

3.GF Securities (Hong Kong) Brokerage 4.Macquarie Capital Securities

Raymond Li, Catherine Tsang, Neil Torpey,

Zhaoyu Ren

(Partners)

 

Bonnie Yung

(Counsel)

 

Eric Chow

(Associate)

 

Lucy Lam

(Trainee solicitor)

Shearman & Sterling

Wuzhou International Holdings’ global initial public offering and listing on HKEx

$178 million

Wuzhou International Holdings Ltd

 

White & Case

Financing for Alibaba Group

$8 billion

Agent and security agent:

Citicorp International Ltd

John Shum

(Partner)

White & Case

Financing for Alibaba Group

$8 billion

Lead arrangers:

1.ANZ Banking Group 2.Citigroup Global Markets Asia

3.Credit Suisse AG (SG branch)

4.DBS Bank

5.Deutsche Bank AG(SG branch)

6.HSBC

7.JPMorgan Chase Bank (HK branch)

8.Mizuho Corporate Bank

9.Morgan Stanley Asia

John Hartley, Eugene Man

(Partners)

 

Jiejin (Victoria) Yu,

June Chun

(Associates)

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