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 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 |
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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) |
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