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Jurisdiction – China
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
AllBright Law Offices | Nan Fung Investment China Holdings’ joint venture with Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group | Undisclosed | Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group Ltd |
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Dentons | Anbang Insurance Group’s acquisition of the Waldorf Astoria New York from Hilton Worldwide Holdings | $1.95 billion | Hilton Worldwide Holdings | Meghan Cocci, Rick Ross, Mark Daliere, Carol Anne Been, David Klein, Gary Meyerhoff, Todd Liao (Partners) |
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | Anbang Insurance Group’s acquisition of the Waldorf Astoria New York from Hilton Worldwide Holdings | $1.95 billion | Anbang Insurance Group | Jonathan Mechanic, Franz Rassman, David Karnovsky, Robert Cassanos (Partners) |
Greenberg Traurig | Anbang Insurance Group’s acquisition of the Waldorf Astoria New York from Hilton Worldwide Holdings | $1.95 billion | Anbang Insurance Group | Robert Ivanhoe (Partner) |
Shearman & Sterling | International Finance Corp’s investment in China Three Gorges South Asia Investment | $125 million | International Finance Corp | Andrew Ruff (Partner) |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | Anbang Insurance Group’s acquisition of the Waldorf Astoria New York from Hilton Worldwide Holdings | $1.95 billion | Hilton Worldwide Holdings | Gregory Ressa (Real estate practice head)
Erik Quarfordt, John Hart, Greg Grogan, Edgar Lewandowski (Partners) |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Anbang Insurance Group’s acquisition of the Waldorf Astoria New York from Hilton Worldwide Holdings | $1.95 billion | Anbang Insurance Group | Audrey Sokoloff, Harvey Uris, Victor Hollender, Bruce Goldner, Jamie Boucher, Peter Huang, Ivan Schlager, Gregory Miao, Mark McDermott (Partners)
Serhat Krause, Rebecca Marcucci, Stephen Pacicco, James Sharkey, Trevor Allen, Nick Shu, John Kabealo (Associates) |
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Jurisdiction – Hong Kong
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Ashurst | Nan Fung Investment China Holdings’ joint venture with Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group | Undisclosed | Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group Ltd |
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Clifford Chance | Datang Telecom (HongKong) Holdings’ issue of 5.50 percent guaranteed notes due 2017 | RMB1,000 million ($163 million) | Joint lead managers: 1.DBS Bank Ltd 2.Deutsche Bank AG (Hong Kong branch) |
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King & Wood Mallesons (HK and PRC counsel) | Nan Fung Investment China Holdings’ joint venture with Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group | Undisclosed | Nan Fung Investment China Holdings Ltd | Raymond Wong, William Jiang, David Lam, Stanley Zhou (Partners)
Li Jing (Senior associate)
Pulcheria Chung, Collin Wong (Associates)
Owen Ren (Attorney)
Iris Cheng, Chris Pan (Associates) |
Linklaters | Datang Telecom (HongKong) Holdings’ issue of 5.50 percent guaranteed notes due 2017 | RMB1,000 million ($163 million) | Datang Telecom (HongKong) Holdings Co Ltd |
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Maples and Calder (BVI counsel) | Datang Telecom (HongKong) Holdings’ issue of 5.50 percent guaranteed notes due 2017 | RMB1,000 million ($163 million) | Datang Telecom (HongKong) Holdings Co Ltd | Jenny Nip (Partner)
Karen Zhang (Associate) |
Paul Hastings | Secondary offering of common shares of Premium Leisure Corp by shareholders Belle Corp, APC Group, Foundation Capital Resources and Parallax Resources | Undisclosed | Global coordinator: CLSA Ltd
Joint global bookrunners: 1.Credit Suisse (Singapore) Ltd 2.Macquarie Capital (Singapore) Pte Ltd | Steven Winegar (Partner)
Tim Sung, Lisa Park, Liming Xu (Associates) |
Paul Hastings | WH Group’s acquisition of a term loan facility | $1.5 billion | WH Group Ltd | Raymond Li (Partner, Chair of Greater China)
Vivian Lam, Catherine Tsang (Partners)
Erika Wan, James Ma (Associates) |
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Jurisdiction – Japan
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Latham & Watkins | Debt financing for the Cameron LNG liquefaction-export project in Hackberry, Louisiana | $7.4 billion | Lenders: 1.Japan Bank for International Cooperation 2.Nippon Export Investment Insurance 3. Group of 29 commercial banks | Bill Voge, Matthew Henegar, Joel Mack, Joseph Bevash, Michael Yoshii, Hiroki Kobayashi, Warren Lilien, James Barrett, Kenneth Simon, David Shapiro (Partners)
Richard Chul Kim, Saori Kawakami, Daniel Senger, Richard Fleming, Kelann Stirling, James Franklin, Lucy Wilson, Lily Sayagh, Katie Day, Eli Hopson, Joshua Marnitz, Nathan Logan (Associates)
Veronica Relea, Sara Orr (Counsel) |
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | Synaptics’ acquisition of Renesas SP Drivers | $300 million | Sole lead arranger: Wells Fargo Securities
Administrative agent: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | B. J. Rosen, Alan Benjamin, Toshihiko Tsuchiya, Mark Weeks, John Narducci, Alex Chachkes, Thomas Mitchell (Partners)
Emin Guysenov, Stephanie Rivetz, David Lin, Stephen Lessard (Associates) |
Shearman & Sterling | Yahoo! Japan’s proposed acquisition of Synergy Marketing | JPY 8.75 billion ($80.11 million) | Yahoo! Japan Corp | Masahisa Ikeda (Partner) |