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Jurisdiction – China
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Fangda Partners | Linekong Interactive Co’s Hong Kong IPO and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of an aggregate of 73,968,000 ordinary shares | HK$724.9 million ($93.5 million) | Linekong Interactive Co Ltd |
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Global Law Office | Linekong Interactive Co’s Hong Kong IPO and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of an aggregate of 73,968,000 ordinary shares | HK$724.9 million ($93.5 million) | 1.Underwriters led by Macquarie Capital Securities Ltd |
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Hogan Lovells | Kingfisher’s proposed sale of a controlling 70 percent stake in its B&Q China business to Wumei Holdings | 140 million pounds ($211.9 million) | Kingfisher plc | Nicholas Cheffings, Jun Wei, Karen Hughes, Guy Potel, Tom Brassington (Partners)
Lu Zhou, Kitty Zhang, Betty Li, Roberta Chang (Senior associates)
Shaokai Wang, Valerie Fung, Heba Soliman (Associates)
Charles Butcher (Consultant) |
Jun He Law Offices | BBI Life Sciences Corp’s global offering and listing of its shares on the HKEx | HK$230 million ($29.7 million) | Underwriters |
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King & Wood Mallesons | BBI Life Sciences Corp’s global offering and listing of its shares on the HKEx | HK$230 million ($29.7 million) | BBI Life Sciences Corp |
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Jurisdiction – Hong Kong
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Appleby (Cayman Islands counsel) | Spin-off and separate listing of SiS Mobile Holdings on the HKEx | Undisclosed | SiS Mobile Holdings |
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Baker & McKenzie | CSR Corp and China CNR Corp’s merger to form new $26 billion company | $26 billion | Lawyer Merger Party |
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Cheung & Lee in association with Locke Lord (HK) LLP | Tewoo (H.K.)’s acquisition of secured revolving credit facilities from a syndicate of banks | $100 million | Tewoo (H.K.) Ltd | Michael Fung, Samrad Nazer (Partners)
Kevin Chan (Associate) |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | Spin-off and separate listing of SiS Mobile Holdings on the HKEx | Undisclosed | SiS Mobile Holdings |
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Clifford Chance | Carlyle Asia Partners IV’s acquisition of an indirect 36.8 percent stake in Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings from General Electric | $483 million | Carlyle Asia Partners IV | Simon Cooke, Matthew Truman, Wendy Wysong, Richard Blewett (Partners)
Isaac Stewart, Christopher Wall, Clara Shirota, Angie Ng (Senior associates)
Wendy Kam, Elizabeth Schultz, Mel Chan, Montse Ferrer, Jennifer Storey (Associates) |
Clifford Chance | HK$8.162 billion ($1.05 billion) | China CITIC Bank Corp Ltd | Terence Foo (Partner)
Zhang Hong, Ian Yang (Senior associates)
Janet Jiang (Associate) | |
Clifford Chance | Haitong Securities Co’s proposed issue of 1.92 billion new H-shares in a private placement to seven institutional investors | $3.9 billion | Haitong Securities Co Ltd | Virginia Lee, Cherry Chan, Jean Thio (Partners)
Lorna Lu (Associate) |
Clifford Chance | Shangri-La Asia’s 1 for 7 rights issue | HK$4.9 billion ($628 million) | Shangri-La Asia | Roger Denny (Head of M&A Asia-Pacific)
Neeraj Budhwani (Partner)
Raymond Ng (Senior associate)
James Yip (Associate) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Linekong Interactive Co’s Hong Kong IPO and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of an aggregate of 73,968,000 ordinary shares | HK$724.9 million ($93.5 million) | 1.Underwriters led by Macquarie Capital Securities Ltd 2.And another investment bank as joint sponsors 3.Together with CCB International Capital Ltd as joint global coordinators | Bonnie Chan, Li He, Antony Dapiran (Partners)
Terrence O’Donnell (Counsel-registered foreign lawyer)
Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel)
Christine Xu, Aaron Zhou, Kitty Chan, Benjamin Lin, Vanessa Ho, Cheryl Wong, Lena Qiu (Associates) |
Deacons | AVIC International Holding (HK)’s top-up placement of shares | HK$540 million ($69.7 million) | Placing agent: Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd | Sabrina Fung (Partner)
Catherine Kwan (Associate) |
Deacons | Spin-off and separate listing of SiS Mobile Holdings on the HKEx | Undisclosed | 1.Sole sponsor: Haitong International Capital 2.Underwriters | Sabrina Fung (Partner)
Kelvan Cheung Michelle Leung (Associates)
Andrew Law Evelyn Cheung Paul Lam Santy Gao |
DLA Piper | BBI Life Sciences Corp’s global offering and listing of its shares on the HKEx | HK$230 million ($29.7 million) | BBI Life Sciences Corp |
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | AVIC International Holding (HK)’s top-up placement of shares | HK$540 million ($69.7 million) | AVIC International Holding (HK) Ltd |
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Herbert Smith Freehills | Jingneng Clean Energy Investment Holdings’ bond (due 2017) issue | RMB1 billion ($160 million) | Underwriters | Kevin Roy, Gary Lock (Partners)
Cindy Kao (consultant)
Jackie Chen (Senior associate)
Stanley Xie, George Wu (Associate) |
Howse Williams Bowers | BBI Life Sciences Corp’s global offering and listing of its shares on the HKEx | HK$230 million ($29.7 million) | BBI Life Sciences Corp | Brian Ho (Partner) |
Kirkland & Ellis | CSR Corp and China CNR Corp’s merger to form new $26 billion company | $26 billion | Financial advisers |
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Linklaters | HK$8.162 billion ($1.05 billion) | Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. |
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Linklaters | CSR Corp and China CNR Corp’s merger to form new $26 billion company | $26 billion | CSR Corp and China CNR Corp | Teresa Ma, Pui Hong Chik, Fay Zhou (Partners)
Iris Yeung, Geoffrey Tang (Managing associates) |
Mayer Brown JSM | Tewoo (H.K.)’s acquisition of secured revolving credit facilities from a syndicate of banks | $100 million | Lenders: Bank syndicate |
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Morrison & Foerster | BBI Life Sciences Corp’s global offering and listing of its shares on the HKEx | HK$230 million ($29.7 million) | Underwriters | Charles Chau (Partner) |
Morrison & Foerster | CSR Corp and China CNR Corp’s merger to form new $26 billion company | $26 billion | Lawyer Merger Party |
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | Linekong Interactive Co’s Hong Kong IPO and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of an aggregate of 73,968,000 ordinary shares | HK$724.9 million ($93.5 million) | Linekong Interactive Co Ltd | Celia Lam, Leiming Chen (Partners) |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Cathay Life Insurance Co’s acquisition of a 20 percent stake in Rizal Commercial Banking Corp | PHP17.92 billion ($402 million) | Rizal Commercial Banking Corp | Jonathan Stone, Rajeev Duggal (Partners)
Zachary Levine (Associate) |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Ctrip.com International’s acquisition of a majority stake in Travelfusion | Undisclosed | Ctrip.com International Ltd | John Adebiyi, Julie Gao (Partners) |
