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 |
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Jurisdiction – Japan
Firm |
Deal |
Value |
Client |
Lawyer(s) involved |
K&L Gates |
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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