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Jurisdiction – China
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Haiwen & Partners | Huaneng Power International’s acquisition of equity interests in 10 power plants in China | $1.19 billion | Huaneng Power International Inc |
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Herbert Smith Freehills | Huaneng Power International’s acquisition of equity interests in 10 power plants in China | $1.19 billion | Huaneng Power International Inc | Tom Chau (Partner)
Sherry Lai (Senior associate)
Lawrence Wang, Isaac Chen (Associates) |
Jia Yuan Law Offices | Nexteer Automotive Group’s Rule 144A/ Regulation S issue of 5.85 percent high-yield senior notes due 2021 | $250 million | Initial purchasers: 1.JPMorgan 2.Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
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Jingtian & Gongcheng | China Oil And Gas Group’s Regulation S offer of 5 percent senior notes due 2020 | $300 million | China Oil And Gas Group Ltd |
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King & Wood Mallesons | China Oil And Gas Group’s Regulation S offer of 5 percent senior notes due 2020 | $300 million | Initial purchasers: 1.J.P. Morgan Securities plc 2.Morgan Stanley & Co International plc 3.Another investment bank |
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Shearman & Sterling | Shanghai Fu Shou Yuan Industry Development’s acquisition of 60 percent equity interest in Chongqing Baitayuan Funeral and Burial Development | RMB111 million ($18 million) | Shanghai Fu Shou Yuan Industry Development Co Ltd | Colin Law (Partner) |
Shearman & Sterling | Starwood Capital Group’s potential sale of Groupe du Louvre and Louvre Hotels Group to Jin Jiang International Holdings | Undisclosed | Shanghai Jin Jiang International Holdings Co Ltd | Nicolas Bombrun, Lee Edwards, Larry Crouch, Richard Hsu (Partners)
Anne-Sophie Maes (Counsel)
Anna Cooklin, Olivia Depret-Bixio, Gaspard Bastien-Thiry, Jin Wang, Orla McMahon, Zheng Bao (Associates) |
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Jurisdiction – Hong Kong
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Appleby (Bermuda, BVI counsel) | China Oil And Gas Group’s Regulation S offer of 5 percent senior notes due 2020 | $300 million | China Oil And Gas Group Ltd |
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Ashurst | Financing for the Donggi-Senoro Liquefied Natural Gas (DSLNG) project in Indonesia | $2.8 billion | Lenders: 1.JBIC 2.KEXIM 3.NEXI 4.SMBC 5.BTMUFJ 6.Mizuho Bank 7.Korea Exchange Bank 8.Nonghyup Bank | Matthias Schemuth (Partner) |
Baker & McKenzie | Financing for the development of London’s Battersea Power Station | 1.35 billion pounds ($2.11 billion) | Lenders: 1.CIMB Bank Bhd 2.Maybank Kim Eng Securities Pte Ltd 3.Standard Chartered Bank 4.Standard Chartered Saadiq Bhd | Sally Hung (Partner)
Fiona Wang (International associate) |
Clifford Chance | Bank of China's issue of 5 percent Tier 2 capital notes due 2024 | $3 billion | Lead managers: 1.Bank of China 2.Bank of America 3.Merrill Lynch 4.HSBC 5.Wells Fargo Securities 6.Crédit Agricole 7.CIB 8.Deutsche Bank 9.J.P. Morgan 10.Mizuho Securities 11.Morgan Stanley | Matt Fairclough, Crawford Brickley, Fang Liu (Partners)
David Tsai (Consultant)
Yue Song, Torrance Shi, Liu Gehuan (Associates) |
Clifford Chance | Century’s inaugural Regulation S offering of 10.25 percent high-yield notes due 2019 | $175 million | Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd | Rahul Guptan, Richard Lee (Partners)
Shashwat Tewary, Naveen Pogula (Senior associates)
Andrew Kelly (Consultant) |
Clifford Chance | Chong Hing Bank's issue of 6.5 percent undated non-cumulative subordinated Additional Tier 1 capital securities | $300 million | Lead managers: 1.Credit Suisse 2.HSBC 3.Nomura 4.UBS | Matt Fairclough (Partner)
James Booth (Senior associate) |
Clifford Chance | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau)’s issue of 3.875 percent subordinated notes due 2024 | $320 million | Lead managers: 1.ICBC International Capital Ltd 2.ICBC International Securities Ltd 3.HSBC 4.Standard Chartered Bank | Connie Heng, Matt Fairclough (Partners)
Mark Chan (Senior associate) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Century’s inaugural Regulation S offering of 10.25 percent high-yield notes due 2019 | $175 million | Initial purchaser | Eugene Gregor, John Paton (Partners)
Ferish Patel, Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel)
Ryan Grimm (Registered foreign lawyer)
Hua Zhao, Lena Qiu (Associates) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | China Oil And Gas Group’s Regulation S offer of 5 percent senior notes due 2020 | $300 million | Initial purchasers: 1.J.P. Morgan Securities plc 2.Morgan Stanley & Co International plc 3.Another investment bank | William Barron (Partner)
Gerhard Radtke (Counsel-registered foreign lawyer)
Bingqing Pan (Registered foreign lawyer)
Margie Chan, Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel)
Sarah Joy (Associate) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Nexteer Automotive Group’s Rule 144A/ Regulation S issue of 5.85 percent high-yield senior notes due 2021 | $250 million | Nexteer Automotive Group Ltd | William Barron, Richard Drucker, Bonnie Chan, Antony Dapiran, John Paton (Partners)
Faisal Baloch (Counsel)
Han (Annie) Shen, Bo Huang (Registered foreign lawyers)
Stephenie Fung, Lena Qiu, Jake Wang (Associates) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Warburg Pincus’ acquisition of NeST Software | Undisclosed | NeST Software |
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Deacons | EGL Holdings’ global offering and listing on the HKEx | HK$185 million ($23.9 million) | Sole sponsor: Shenyin Wanguo Capital (H.K.)
Underwriters | Ronny Chow (Partner)
Maynard Leung, Jeff Wong, Doris Leung, Queena Chow, Evelyn Cheung, Vannessa Lai, Paul Lam (Associates) |
Linklaters | N/A | Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd | Chin-Chong Liew, Teresa Ma, Stephen Fletcher, Umesh Kumar, Fang Jian (Partners) | |
Maples and Calder (Cayman Islands counsel) | Nexteer Automotive Group’s Rule 144A/ Regulation S issue of 5.85 percent high-yield senior notes due 2021 | $250 million | Nexteer Automotive Group Ltd | Greg Knowles (Partner)
Derrick Kan (Associate) |
Mayer Brown JSM | Principal Financial Group’s acquisition of AXA's Mandatory Provident Fund and Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance | HK$2.6 billion ($340 million) | Principal Financial Group | Mark Uhrynuk, Duncan Abate, Sara Or (Partners)
Eugene Wong, On Yee Tam (Senior associates)
Stephanie Hurst, Elaine Yeung (Associates) |
Norton Rose Fulbright | ANTA Sports Products’ share placement | HK$1.1 billion ($140 million) | ANTA Sports Products Ltd | Winnie Chan (Partner)
Marco Cheng, Patrick Wong (Associates) |
Paul Hastings | CDH Investments’ acquisition of a 78.775 percent stake in Fujian Nanping Nanfu Battery | Undisclosed | CDH Investments | Raymond Li, Vivian Lam (Partner)
Fang Pei (Of counsel)
Erika Wan (Senior associate) |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison | CITIC’s and KKR’s joint investment in United Envirotech | Undisclosed | KKR | Jack Lange (Partner)
Mable Law, Maggie Chen (Associates) |
Shearman & Sterling | E for L Aim’s acquisition of Wutthisak Clinic Inter Group’s entire share capital | Undisclosed | Wise Thai Company Ltd | Sidharth Bhasin (Partner) |
Shearman & Sterling | Nexteer Automotive Group’s Rule 144A/ Regulation S issue of 5.85 percent high-yield senior notes due 2021 | $250 million | Initial purchasers: 1.JPMorgan 2.Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
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Sidley Austin | China Oil And Gas Group’s Regulation S offer of 5 percent senior notes due 2020 | $300 million | China Oil And Gas Group Ltd |
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Slaughter and May | Colt Group S.A’s proposed acquisition of KVH | 130.3 million euros ($163.14 million) | Colt Group S.A. | William Underhill, Susannah Macknay (Partners)
Henry Bennett, Marianne Helps, Chris Milliken (Associates) |
Slaughter and May | MTR Corp’s and MTR Corp (C.I.)’s annual update of their MTN programme | $4 billion | 1.MTR Corp Ltd 2.MTR Corp (C.I.) Ltd | Laurence Rudge (Partner)
Roger Cheng (Associate) |
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Jurisdiction – Japan
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Allen & Overy | Financing for the Donggi-Senoro Liquefied Natural Gas (DSLNG) project in Indonesia | $2.8 billion | PT Donggi Senoro LNG | Adam Stapledon, Scott Neilson, Adam Moncrieff (Partners)
Andrew Digges (Foreign legal consultant)
Kristian Bradshaw (Counsel)
Scott Lovell, Xue Wang, Hans Menski, Cindy Riswantyo, Teruma Naito, Matt Del Rosso, Deska Widianto, Sofie Chandra (Associates) |
Shearman & Sterling | Namura Shipbuilding’s potential acquisition of Sasebo Heavy Industries | $234 million | Namura Shipbuilding Co Ltd | Masahisa Ikeda (Partner) |
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Jurisdiction – Korea
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | Samsung SDS’ initial public offering and listing on the Korea Exchange | $1.1 billion | Samsung SDS Co | Yong Guk Lee (Partner) |
Kim & Chang | Samsung SDS’ initial public offering and listing on the Korea Exchange | $1.1 billion | Samsung SDS Co |
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Paul Hastings | Samsung SDS’ initial public offering and listing on the Korea Exchange | $1.1 billion | Underwriters: 1.Goldman Sachs 2.J.P. Morgan Securities 3.Korea Investment & Securities Co | Dong Chul Kim, Daniel Sae-Chin Kim, Steven Winegar (Partners)
Woojae Kim (Of counsel)
Steve Kang, Young Hwan Ryu (Associates) |
Shin & Kim | Samsung SDS’ initial public offering and listing on the Korea Exchange | $1.1 billion | Underwriters: 1.Goldman Sachs 2.J.P. Morgan Securities 3.Korea Investment & Securities Co |
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