Jurisdiction – Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Overy

CNOOC Curtis Funding No. 1 Pty’s concurrent offering of USD and Euro-denominated notes guaranteed by China National Offshore Oil Corp

$1.3 billion

and

500 million euros

($677 million)

 

Joint global coordinators:

1.BOCI Asia

2.Goldman Sachs (Asia)

3.J.P. Morgan Securities plc

4.UBS AG, HK branch

 

Joint lead managers and bookrunners:

1.BOCI Asia

2.Goldman Sachs (Asia)

3.J.P. Morgan Securities plc

4.UBS AG, HK branch

5.ICBC International Securities

6.CCB International Capital

7.ABCI Capital 8.BOCOM International Securities

 

Joint co-managers:

1.Australia and New Zealand Banking Group

2.Mizuho Securities USA Inc

James Grandolfo,

David Kuo (Partners)

 

Buxian Xia

(Consultant)

 

Emily Dong,

Marcus Eldridge

(Associates)

Baker & McKenzie

Real Estate Investment Trust term loans grant

HK$5 billion

($650 million)

Fortune Real Estate Investment Trust

Milton Cheng, Simon Leung, Christina Lee,

Debbie Cheung (Partners)

 

Jeremy Ong

(Senior associate)

Jones Day

International Sports Capital’s proposed acquisition of a 70 percent stake in F.C. Internazionale Milano S.p.A from Internazion-ale Holding S.r.l

N/A

International Sports Capital

Marco Lombardi, Maria Pedersen,

Christopher Swift

 (Partners)

 

Joelle Lau,

(Of Counsel)

 

Velislava Popova,

Giulio Novellini, Luca Allevi,

Zakaria Abouabid,

Peter Wilkinson (Associates)

Maples and Calder

(BVI, Cayman Islands counsel)

China Mengniu Dairy’s voluntary general offer for Yashili International Holdings’ entire issued share capital

HK$11 billion

($1.42 billion)

China Mengniu Dairy Company Ltd

Greg Knowles (Partner)

 

Derrick Kan

(Associate)

Morrison & Foerster

C.P. Lotus Corp’s acquisition of minority interest in Wumart Stores

HK$2.9 billion

($370 million)

Ascendent Capital Partners

Jeremy Hunt, Marcia Ellis

(Partners)

 

 Ivy Tsang

(Associate)

Morrison & Foerster

Wumart Stores’ proposed acquisition of C.P. Lotus’s operations in selected Chinese  provinces

HK$2.34 billion

($300 million)

Ascendent Capital Partners

Jeremy Hunt, Marcia Ellis

(Partners)

 

 Ivy Tsang

(Associate)

Morrison & Foerster

Wumart Stores’ proposed acquisition of minority interest in C.P. Lotus Corp

HK$548 million

($71 million)

Ascendent Capital Partners

Jeremy Hunt, Marcia Ellis

(Partners)

 

 Ivy Tsang

(Associate)

Norton Rose Fulbright

Uni-President China Holdings’ disposal of Want Want China Holdings’ shares

HK$509 million

($66 million)

HSBC

Psyche Tai,

Andrew Bleau

(Partners)

 

Vicky Lam,

Marco Cheng

(Associates)

Slaughter and May

Bupa’s acquisition of Quality HealthCare Medical Services from Fortis Healthcare

$355 million

Bupa

Neil Hyman,

Andy Ryde (Partners)

 

Jing Chen,

Robyn Butler (Associates)

Slaughter and May

Standard Chartered’s annual update of its  debt issuance programme

$57.5 billion

Standard Chartered

Nilufer von Bismarck,

Laurence Rudge (Partners)

 

Andrew Chaplin, Akshay Kundaiker,

Owen Williams,

John Cartwright (Associates)

Sullivan & Cromwell

(HK counsel)

China Mengniu Dairy’s voluntary general offer for Yashili International Holdings’ entire issued share capital

HK$11 billion

($1.42 billion)

China Mengniu Dairy Company Ltd

 

Jurisdiction – Japan

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

K&L Gates

Japan Airlines’ deal with Airbus

Undisclosed

Japan Airlines

Keiji Isaji,

Atsushi Yamashita, Robert Melson,

Trevor Beadle (Partners)

 

Tsuguhito Omagari (Counsel)

 

Nobuhiro Kawanaka

(Associate)

Jurisdiction – Korea

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Paul Hastings

Samsung Electronics’ private share redemption transaction with Seagate Technology

$1.5 billion

Samsung Electronics

Daniel Sae-Chin Kim,

Dong Chul Kim,

Jeff Hartlin,

Garrett Hayes

(Partners)

 

Steve Kang,

Samantha Eldredge (Associates)

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

 

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