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Jurisdiction – China
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
DLA Piper | MoboTap’s sale of 51 percent stake to Changyou.com | $100 million | MoboTap Inc | David Xu (Senior associate)
Yiran Peng (Legal assistant)
Iris Liu |
Jia Yuan Law Firm | Citic’s share placement to fund its $36.5 billion acquisition of assets from parent Citic Group | $6.9 billion | Citic Ltd |
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Jurisdiction – Hong Kong
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Ashurst | Far East Hospitality Holdings’ acquisition of a 50 percent interest in a portfolio of property companies from Toga Accommodation Fund | Undisclosed | Far East Hospitality Holdings Pte Ltd | Peter Junghänel, Lars Jessen, Klaus Herkenroth, John Stawyskyj, Vivian Chang (Partners)
Paul Witte (Senior associate)
Adnan Manzoor, Felix Kruger, Julius Heusgen, Bethany Du, Sophia Kwok (Associates)
Samantha Loh (Counsel)
Pauline Tan (Special counsel) |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | Placement of 650,000,000 shares in CSPC Pharmaceutical Group | HK$4.076 billion ($530 million) | Seller |
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Davis Polk & Wardwell | Placement of 650,000,000 shares in CSPC Pharmaceutical Group | HK$4.076 billion ($530 million) | Placing agents: 1.Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C 2.Morgan Stanley & Co International plc 3.Citigroup Global Markets Asia Ltd | Paul Chow, James Lin (Partners )
Faisal Baloch, Peter Cheng (Counsel)
Wilson Chan (Associate) |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Citic’s share placement to fund its $36.5 billion acquisition of assets from parent Citic Group | $6.9 billion | Citic Ltd | Teresa Ko, Calvin Lai, Richard Wang (Partners) |
King & Wood Mallesons |
14.5 billion yuan ($2.4 billion)
| Huarong Asset Management Co Ltd |
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Kirkland & Ellis |
14.5 billion yuan ($2.4 billion)
| CITIC Securities International Ltd | Frank Sun, Nick Norris, David Yun (Partners) | |
Kirkland & Ellis | Orchid Asia Group Management’s closure of its sixth private equity fund, Orchid Asia VI | $920 million | Orchid Asia Group Management Ltd | Justin Dolling, Carol Liu (Partners)
Juliet Anderson, Jennifer Feng (Associates) |
Latham & Watkins | TAL Education Group’s issue of convertible senior notes due 2019 | $200 million | Joint bookrunners: 1.Deutsche Bank Securities Inc 2.J.P. Morgan Securities LLC 3.Morgan Stanley & Co International plc | Posit Laohaphan, Witold Balaban (Partners)
Reza Mojtabaee-Zamani, Casey Plant, Jennifer Poh (Associates) |
Paul Hastings |
14.5 billion yuan ($2.4 billion)
| Huarong Asset Management Co Ltd | Nan Li (Partner) | |
Shearman & Sterling | China Development Bank International’s acquisition of 45 percent stake in JinkoSolar Power Engineering Group | $225 million | JinkoSolar Power Engineering Group Ltd |
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Sidley Austin | Sinotrans Shipping’s acquisitions of certain equity interests in and shareholders loans of nine companies from Sinotrans & CSC Holdings and Sinotrans | RMB550 million ($89.5 million) | Sinotrans Shipping Ltd | Constance Choy, Janney Chong (Partners) |
Sullivan & Cromwell |
14.5 billion yuan ($2.4 billion)
| Goldman Sachs (U.S.) | Michael DeSombre, Eric Kadel Jr, Michael Escue (Partners)
Henry Li (Special counsel)
Yeqing Zheng (Associate) |
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