Jurisdiction – China

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Herbert Smith Freehills

Loan grant for development and operation of Panzhuang coalbed methane (CBM) block

$100 million

Joint lead arrangers:

1.The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd  2.Standard Chartered Bank

Adrian Cheng,

Monica Sun,

Alexander Aitken (Partners)

 

Andy Bennett,

Preeti Kamat

(Senior associates)

 

 

Jie Li,

Hao Su,

Feng Xiao

(Associates)

Paul Hastings

Completion of AsiaInfo-Linkage’s going-private transaction

$330 million

Lead managers:

1.Nomura

2.Bank of Taiwan 3.Cathay United Bank 4.ICBC International Capital

5.Maybank Investment Bank

Brett King,

Alexander Lee (Partners)

 

James Ma,

Katherine Watlington

(Associates)

Slaughter and May

Wanda Commercial Properties Group’s joint venture formation with Wanda Commercial Properties (Hong Kong)

HK$875.6 million

($113 million)

Wanda Commercial Properties Group

Lisa Chung

(Partner)

 

Alana Lam,

Kevin Ip

(Associates)

Sullivan & Cromwell

China Shenhua Overseas Development & Investment Co’s shale gas-related acquisition and joint development agreement with Energy Corporation of America

Undisclosed

China Shenhua Overseas Development & Investment Co Ltd

Garth Bray,

Eric Kadel,

Chris Mann

(Partners)

Jurisdiction – Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

KEXIM’s concurrent SEC-registered Schedule B debt offering of its floating-rate notes due 2017

$750 million

KEXIM

(Export-Import Bank of Korea)

 

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Chengdong Investment Corp’s block trade of 1.2 billion shares of GCL-Poly Energy Holdings

HK$3.12 billion

($400 million)

China Investment Corporation

Paul Chow

(Partner)

 

Lillian Lian

(Associate)

Davis Polk & Wardwell

KEXIM’s concurrent SEC-registered Schedule B debt offering of its floating-rate notes due 2017

$750 million

Underwriters:

1.Barclays Bank 2.Citigroup Global Markets

3.Deutsche Bank AG (SG branch)

4.J.P. Morgan Securities
5.Merrill Lynch

6.Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 7.Société Générale 8.U.S. Bancorp Investments

9.Woori Investment & Securities

Eugene Gregor

(Partner)

 

Tae-Hun Kim

(Registered foreign lawyer)

 

 Alon Gurfinkel

(Counsel)

Lefèvre Pelletier & associés

Mekong Brahmaputra Clean Development Fund’s acquisition of Symbior Energy, Symbior Solar Siam

Undisclosed

1.Symbior Energy

2.Symbior Solar Siam

Nicolas Vanderchmitt (Partner)

 

Maggie Ng

(Associate)

Morrison & Foerster

Fujian Nouqi’s HK IPO

HK$432 million

($55.7 million)

1.CCB International Capital Ltd

2.Bank of China International (BOCI)

Ven Tan

(HK Managing partner)

Morrison & Foerster

Miko International Holdings’ HK IPO

HK$420 million

($54.2 million)

1.CCB International Capital Ltd

2. China Galaxy Securities

Ven Tan

(HK Managing partner)

Morrison & Foerster

Nanjing Sinolife United’s HK IPO

HK$470 million

($60.7 million)

BOCOM International Securities Ltd

Gregory Wang

(Partner)

Paul Hastings

Livzon Pharmaceutical Group’s listing of H-shares on the HKEx

Undisclosed

Sponsor:

Guosen Securities (HK) Capital Co Ltd

Raymond Li,

Sammy Li,

Zhaoyu Ren

Partners)

 

Jason Wang,

Ke Zhu

(Associates)

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Tencent Holdings’ investment in China South City Holdings

$193 million

Tencent Holdings

Jeanette Chan

(Partner)

 

Corinna Yu

(Counsel)

 

Patrick Tan

(Associate)

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s reacquisition of Oriental Brewery Co from KKR and Affinity

$5.8 billion

1.KKR & Co

2.Affinity Equity Partners

 

Sullivan & Cromwell

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s reacquisition of Oriental Brewery Co from KKR and Affinity

$5.8 billion

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Michael DeSombre,

Frank Aquila  (Partners)

 

Joonkeun Yoo

(Special counsel)

 

Frank Jin,

Victoria Yue (Associates)

Jurisdiction – Japan

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Clifford Chance

Spring Airlines’ establishment of, and investment in, Spring Airlines Japan

Undisclosed

Spring Airlines Co Ltd

Andrew Whan,

Tatsuhiko Kamiyama (Partners)

 

Maiko Adachi,

Yoko Matsumura, Shao-Qiang Boey

(Associates)

Jurisdiction – Korea

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Kim & Chang

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s reacquisition of Oriental Brewery Co from KKR and Affinity

$5.8 billion

1.Anheuser-Busch InBev

2.KKR & Co

3.Affinity Equity Partners

 

Yoon & Yang

KEXIM’s concurrent SEC-registered Schedule B debt offering of its floating-rate notes due 2017

$750 million

KEXIM

(Export-Import Bank of Korea)

 

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

 

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