Jurisdiction – China

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Forgame Holdings’ acquisition of Magic Feature’s shares

$90 million

Forgame Holdings Ltd

Paul Chow

(Partner)

 

Peter Cheng,

Christine Xu,

Katie Lam,

Pritesh Shah,

Jansen Thurmer

(Associates)

 

Alon Gurfinkel

(Counsel)

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Tencent Holdings’ acquisition of 15 percent stake in JD.com

$214.7 million

Tencent Holdings Ltd

Kirtee Kapoor,

Paul Chow,

Miranda So

(Partners)

 

 Abhishek Kolay,

Steven Sha

(Registered foreign lawyers)

 

Christine Xu,

Vanessa Chan

(Associates)

Han Kun Law Offices

Tencent Holdings’ acquisition of 15 percent stake in JD.com

$214.7 million

Tencent Holdings Ltd

 

Jun He Law Offices

Senior plc’s proposed 100 percent acquisition of UPECA Technologies

58.2 million pounds

($96.7 million)

Senior plc

James Tao Wu,

Liu Jin

(Associates)

Kirkland & Ellis

Vipshop Holdings’ acquisition of a 75 percent equity interest in Lefeng.com

$132.5 million

Vipshop Holdings Ltd

David Zhang,

Frank Sun,

Jesse Sheley,

Angela Russo

(Partners)

 

Yi Gao,

Julia Yu,

Jing Li

(Associates)

Jurisdiction – Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Baker & McKenzie

Poly Culture Group Corp’s global offering and listing on the HKEx

HK$2.57 billion

($331 million)

Sole sponsor:

CITIC Securities

 

Sole global coordinator:

CLSA

Jackie Lo,

Edwin Li

(Partners)

 

Tracy Lam

(Special counsel)

 

Isabella Li,

Han Bing,

Molly Guan

(Associates)

Clifford Chance

Horsepower Finance’s medium-term programme

$1.2 billion

Joint managers:

1.ICBC International Capital Ltd

2.ICBC International Securities Ltd

3.Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Ltd 4.Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (SG branch)

5.UBS AG (HK branch)

6.Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C.

7.Citigroup Global Markets Ltd

8.HSBC Ltd

9.Société Générale

 

Clifford Chance

Poly Culture Group Corp’s global offering and listing on the HKEx

HK$2.57 billion

($331 million)

Poly Culture Group Corp Ltd

Tim Wang,

Jean Yu,

Jean Thio

(Partners)

 

Liu Ning,

Vincent Wang

(Senior associates)

 

Xiang Tianning,

Wu Hao,

Louis Lim

(Associates)

Deacons

Top-up placing of shares of China Vanguard Group

$36.03 million

DBS Asia Capital Ltd (placing agent)

Ronny Chow

(Partner)

DLA Piper

Top-up placing of shares of China Vanguard Group

$36.03 million

China Vanguard Group Ltd

 

Linklaters

Foxconn (Far East)’s update of its medium- term notes programme

$2 billion

Arrangers:

1.Barclays Bank 2.Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd

 

Linklaters

Horsepower Finance’s medium-term programme

$1.2 billion

Horsepower Finance Ltd

 

Maples and Calder

(Cayman Islands counsel)

Foxconn (Far East)’s update of its medium- term notes programme

$2 billion

Foxconn (Far East) Ltd

Christine Chang

(Partner)

 

Lorraine Pao

(Associate)

Maples and Calder

(BVI counsel)

Horsepower Finance’s medium-term programme

$1.2 billion

Horsepower Finance Ltd

Jenny Nip

(Partner)

 

Karen Zhang

(Associate)

Paul Hastings

Poly Culture Group Corp’s global offering and listing on the HKEx

HK$2.57 billion

($331 million)

Sole sponsor: Securities Corporate Finance (HK) Ltd

 

Sole global coordinator, bookrunner and lead manager:

CLSA Ltd

Raymond Li,

Steven Winegar,

Zhaoyu Ren

(Partners)

 

Dane Johansen,

Joy Chen,

Yingying Chen

(Associates)

Slaughter and May

Senior plc’s proposed 100 percent acquisition of UPECA Technologies

58.2 million pounds

($96.7 million)

Senior plc

Padraig Cronin,

Natalie Yeung (Partners)

 

Shyam Radia, Phoebe Hughes,

Amanda Ho

(Associates) 

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