Jurisdiction – China
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Firm |
Deal |
Value |
Client |
Lawyer(s) involved |
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Herbert Smith Freehills |
Shunfeng Photovoltaic International’s share placement on the HKEx |
$144 million |
Shunfeng Photovoltaic International Ltd |
Jason Sung (Partner) Athena Young, Eugene Lau (Associates) |
|
Jingtian & Gongcheng |
Mega Expo Holdings’ IPO and listing on the HKEx |
HK$79.8 million (IPO) ($10.3 million) HK$266 million (total market capitalisation) ($34.3 million) |
Mega Expo Holdings Ltd |
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King & Wood Mallesons |
Mega Expo Holdings’ IPO and listing on the HKEx |
HK$79.8 million (IPO) ($10.3 million) HK$266 million (total market capitalisation) ($34.3 million) |
Halcyon Capital Ltd |
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Jurisdiction – Japan
|
Firm |
Deal |
Value |
Client |
Lawyer(s) involved |
|
Holland & Hart |
NTT Communications Corp’s acquisition of an 80 percent equity stake in RagingWire Data Centers |
$350 million |
RagingWire Data Centers |
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Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
CTBC Financial Holding Company’s acquisition of 98.16 percent stake in Tokyo Star Bank |
JPY 52 billion ($530 million) |
Tokyo Star Bank |
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Squire Sanders |
NTT Communications Corp’s proposed acquisition of Virtela Technology Services |
$525 million |
NTT Communications Corp |
Ken Kurosu, Steven Doi (Partners) Joe Jones, Asuka Fujita, Satoko Kinoshita (Associates) |
|
White & Case |
NTT Communications Corp’s acquisition of an 80 percent equity stake in RagingWire Data Centers |
$350 million |
NTT Communications Corp |
Brian Strawn, Eric Hwang, David Dreier, Mark Hamilton, Richard Burke (Partners) Steve Lutt, Paul Milmed, Tal Marnin, Norman Fry, Rebecca Farrington (Counsel) Eric Marcks, Tadanao Oshima, Karl Pires, William Moran, Tina Shang, Larry Munoz, Andrew Robinson, Natalie Dana, Amy Bagdasarian, Ruchita Dhawan, Richard Lee, Seth Kerschner, Kellie Thomas, Lynn Diamond, Melody Ching, Erica Lam (Associates) |
|
White & Case |
Osaka Gas Chemicals’ proposed acquisition of Jacobi Carbons AB |
$400 million |
Osaka Gas Chemicals Co Ltd |
Brian Strawn, Ulf Johansson (Partners) Karl Pires, William Moran, Larry Muñoz, Yuta Tamaru, Costin Mihailescu, John Gustafsson, Christian Reineby (Associates) |
Jurisdiction – Korea
|
Firm |
Deal |
Value |
Client |
Lawyer(s) involved |
|
Paul Hastings |
Samsung Corning Precision Materials’ repurchase of Samsung Display’s 43 percent interest in itself |
$2.3 billion |
Samsung Display Co Ltd |
Daniel Sae-Chin Kim, Barry Brooks, Jeff Hartlin, Matthew Berger (Partners) Woojae Kim (Of counsel) Young Hwan Ryu, Steve Kang, Jared Lee, Robert Clarke, Samantha Eldredge, Hyunah Kang, Yariv Katz, Julie O’Neill (Associates) |
Jurisdiction – Hong Kong
|
Firm |
Deal |
Value |
Client |
Lawyer(s) involved |
|
Baker & McKenzie |
Yue Xiu Enterprises’ proposed acquisition of a controlling stake in Chong Hing Bank |
HK$11.64 billion ($1.5 billion) |
Yue Xiu Enterprises (Holdings) Ltd |
Dorothea Koo, Andrew Lockhart, Simon Leung, Karen Man, Martin Tam, Ruby Chan, Debbie Cheung(Partners) Edmund Chan, Frank Meier (Special counsel) |
|
Cheung & Lee in association with Locke Lord (HK) |
Mega Expo Holdings’ IPO and listing on the HKEx |
HK$79.8 million (IPO) ($10.3 million) HK$266 million (total market capitalisation) ($34.3 million) |
Halcyon Capital Ltd |
Michael Fung (Partner) Jeffrey Kung (Counsel) Gloria Ting (Associate) |
|
Chiu & Partners |
Mega Expo Holdings’ IPO and listing on the HKEx |
HK$79.8 million (IPO) ($10.3 million) HK$266 million (total market capitalisation) ($34.3 million) |
Mega Expo Holdings Ltd |
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|
Clifford Chance |
Chalco Hong Kong Investment Company’s 6.625 percent senior perpetual capital securities issue |
$350 million |
Chalco Hong Kong Investment Company Ltd |
|
|
Conyers Dill & Pearman (Cayman Islands, BVI counsel) |
Mega Expo Holdings’ IPO and listing on the HKEx |
HK$79.8 million (IPO) ($10.3 million) HK$266 million (total market capitalisation) ($34.3 million) |
Mega Expo Holdings Ltd |
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|
DLA Piper |
IGG Inc’s initial public offer |
HK$1 billion ($130 million) |
China Everbright Capital Ltd (sole sponsor) China Everbright Securities (HK) Ltd (sole lead manager) |
Esther Leung (Partner) Richard Lee (Senior associate) |
|
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer |
Tonic Industries Holdings’ acquisition of operating subsidiaries from its holding company and share placement |
HK$1.92 billion ($250 million) |
Tonic Industries Holdings Ltd |
|
|
Herbert Smith Freehills |
Goldman Sachs’ (Asia) private placement of new H-shares in Zhuzhou CSR Times Electric Company |
$294 million |
Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC |
Matt Emsley, Kevin Roy (Partners) Athena Young, Jackie Chen (Associates) |
|
Kirkland & Ellis |
Boyaa Interactive International’s HK IPO and Rule 144A/ Regulation S offering |
B/w $107.5 million and $132.4 million |
Credit Suisse (HK) Ltd (sole sponsor, global coordinator, joint bookrunner and joint lead manager) China Renaissance Securities (HK) Ltd, (joint bookrunner and joint lead manager) |
Dominic Tsun, David Zhang, Li-Chien Wong, Benjamin Su, Stephanie Lau, Angela Russo (Partners) |
|
Kirkland & Ellis |
Hydoo International Holding’s HK IPO and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering |
HK$1,581 million ($204 million) |
Hydoo International Holding Ltd |
|
|
Linklaters |
Chalco Hong Kong Investment Company’s 6.625 percent senior perpetual capital securities issue |
$350 million |
Joint book-running managers: 1.HSBC 2.Australia and New Zealand Banking Group 3.Natixis |
|
|
Linklaters |
China Overseas Finance (Cayman) III’s triple-tranche Reg S bond issue |
$1.5 billion |
China Overseas Finance (Cayman) III Ltd |
|
|
Maples and Calder (Cayman Islands, BVI counsel) |
Anton Oilfield Services Group’s issue of 7.5 percent senior guaranteed notes due 2018 |
$250 million |
Anton Oilfield Services Group |
Jenny Nip (Partner) Derrick Kan, Karen Zhang (Associates) |
|
Maples and Calder (BVI counsel) |
Chalco Hong Kong Investment Company’s 6.625 percent senior perpetual capital securities issue |
$350 million |
Chalco Hong Kong Investment Company Ltd |
Christine Chang (Partner) |
|
Maples and Calder (Cayman Islands counsel) |
China Overseas Finance (Cayman) III’s triple-tranche Reg S bond issue |
$1.5 billion |
China Overseas Finance (Cayman) III Ltd |
Stacey Overholt (Partner) Ashley Chan (Paralegal) |
|
Maples and Calder (Cayman Islands, BVI counsel) |
Hydoo International Holding’s HK IPO and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering |
HK$1,581 million ($204 million) |
Hydoo International Holdings Ltd |
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|
Maples and Calder (Cayman Islands, BVI counsel) |
Tonic Industries Holdings’ acquisition of operating subsidiaries from its holding company and share placement |
HK$1.92 billion ($250 million) |
Tonic Industries Holdings Ltd |
Christine Chang (Partner) |
|
Paul Hastings |
China Huirong Financial Holdings’ global offering and IPO on the HKEx |
$106 million |
UBS (sole global coordinator, sole bookrunner, sole lead manager and sole sponsor) |
Raymond Li, Catherine Tsang, David Grimm, Zhaoyu Ren (Partners) Bonnie Yung (Counsel) Yingying Chen, Jason Wang (Associates) |
|
Paul Hastings |
Tonic Industries Holdings’ acquisition of operating subsidiaries from its holding company and share placement |
HK$1.92 billion ($250 million) |
Placement agents: 1.Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC 2.China Merchants Securities (HK) Co Ltd 3.Citigroup Global Market Inc |
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|
Shearman & Sterling |
Anton Oilfield Services Group’s issue of 7.5 percent senior guaranteed notes due 2018 |
$250 million |
Joint bookrunners and joint lead managers: 1.Citigroup Global Markets 2.Morgan Stanley 3.The Royal Bank of Scotland 4.Guotai Junan International |
|
|
Sidley Austin |
Anton Oilfield Services Group’s issue of 7.5 percent senior guaranteed notes due 2018 |
$250 million |
Anton Oilfield Services Group |
|
|
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
Hydoo International Holding’s HK IPO and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering |
HK$1,581 million ($204 million) |
Underwriters |
Celia Lam, Chris Lin (Partners) David Lee (Registered foreign lawyer) Irene Lau, Grace Xu (Associates) |
|
Slaughter and May |
Yue Xiu Enterprises’ (Holdings) acquisition of Chong Hing Bank |
$1.5 billion |
Chong Hing Bank |
|
|
Sullivan & Cromwell |
Yue Xiu Enterprises’ (Holdings) acquisition of Chong Hing Bank |
$1.5 billion |
Nomura International (Hong Kong) Ltd |
Kay Ian Ng, Gwen Wong, William Chua (Partners) |
Jurisdiction – Taiwan
|
Firm |
Deal |
Value |
Client |
Lawyer(s) involved |
|
Baker & McKenzie |
CTBC Financial Holding Company’s acquisition of 98.16 percent stake in Tokyo Star Bank |
JPY 52 billion ($530 million) |
CTBC Financial Holding Company Ltd |
Joseph Fu, Norihiro Sekiguchi (Partners) David Lin, Hsin-Che Wu, Masato Honma, Jonathan Mukai, Junya Suzuki (Associates) |
Where exact value is not known, ALB will use an approximate value based on available market data or coverage.
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