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China
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
B&D Law Firm | Wowo’s IPO and listing of 4,000,000 ADSs on the NASDAQ
| $40 million | Wowo Limited |
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Commerce & Finance Law Offices | Regulation S offering by Shimao Property of its 8.375% senior high-yield notes
| $300 million | Initial purchasers |
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Deacons | Orient Victory Real Estate Group’s acquisition of 49% equity interest in a Chinese travel agent service | RMB441 million ($71 million) | Orient Victory Real Estate Group | Alexander Que (Partner)
Cosette Chan (Associate)
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Han Kun Law Offices | 58.com Inc’s acquisition of a 43.2 percent stake in its privately-held competitor Ganji.com | $412.2 million | 58.com |
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K&L Gates | 3D Systems Corp Easyway Design and Manufacture | N/A | 3D Systems Corp | Amigo Xie (Partner)
Cindy Hong, Dan Wu, Aqua Huang (Associates) |
Kirkland & Ellis | 58.com Inc’s acquisition of a 43.2 percent stake in its privately-held competitor Ganji.com | $412.2 million | Ganji.com | David Zhang, Jesse Sheley, Cheryl Yuan (Partners) |
Norton Rose Fulbright | Sale of Cirque Du Soleil to a consortium backed by TPG Capital | N/A | Owners of Cirque Du Soleil | |
Paul Hastings | Sale of Cirque Du Soleil to a consortium backed by TPG Capital | N/A | Fosun International | David Hernand, Jia Yan, David Wang, Tiffany Lee (Partners)
Vincent Buehler, Ting Wang, Lily Zhang (Associates) |
Ropes & Gray | Sale of Cirque Du Soleil to a consortium backed by TPG Capital | N/A | TPG Capital | Jason Freedman, Alfred Rose (Partners) |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | 58.com Inc’s acquisition of a 43.2 percent stake in its privately-held competitor Ganji.com | $412.2 million | 58.com | Julie Gao, Will Cai, Haiping Li, Rory McAlpine, Michael Gisser (Partners) |
Walkers | China Cinda Finance Medium Term Note Program | $3 billion | China Cinda Finance (2015) I Limited, China Cinda Finance (2015) II Limited, China Cinda (HK) Holdings Company Limited, China Cinda Asset Management Co. | Kristen Kwok (Partner)
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Hong Kong
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Allen & Overy | Export-Import Bank of India’s inaugural Regulation S green bond issue | $500 million | Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan (bookrunners) |
Amit Singh (Partner)
Paul Porter, Garrick Merlo, Debolina Saha (Foreign Lawyers) |
Appleby | In Construction’s listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange | HK$132 million ($72 million) | In Construction Holdings Limited | Judy Lee (Partner)
Chris Cheng (Associate)
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Conyers Dill & Pearman | Solicitation of consent by Sunac China of its 12.5% senior notes
| N/A | Sunac China Holdings |
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Davis Polk & Wardwell | Agricultural Bank of China’s offering of 800,000,000 shares non-cumulative perpetual convertible preferred stock
| $13 billion | Agricultural Bank of China | Bonnie Y. Chan, Paul Chow, Antony Dapiran (Partners) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Solicitation of consent by Sunac China of its 12.5% senior notes
| N/A | Solicitation agents | William F. Barron (Partner)
Gerhard Radtke Margie Chan, Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel)
Ying Su, Xuelin (Steve) Wang, Lena X. Qiu (Associates)
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Davis Polk & Wardwell | Regulation S offering by Shimao Property of its 8.375% senior high-yield notes
| $300 million | Initial purchasers | William F. Barron (Partner)
Terrence R. O’Donnell, Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel)
Han (Annie) Shen, Kevin Zhang, Dominic Foulkes (Associates) |
Deacons | Global offering and Main Board listing of Niraku GC Holdings on Stock Exchange of Hong Kong | HK$384 million ($49.5 million) | Niraku GC Holdings | Ronny Chow (Partner)
Wilson Kan, Queena Chow, Hiroe Ambo, Vannessa Lai (Associates) |
Deacons | Placing of new shares of Winshine Entertainment & Media Holding
| $26 million | Winshine Entertainment & Media Holding | Alexander Que (Partner)
William Wong (Associate) |
Eversheds | In Construction’s listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange | $17 million | Oriental Patron Asia Limited, Oriental Patron Securities Limited
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Norman Hui (Partner)
Joanne Chong, Shirley Chan, Magdalene Wong (Associates)
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | $2.5 billion | Alibaba Health | Edward Freeman (Partner) | |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Manulife’s bancassurance distribution arrangement with DBS Bank | $1.2 billion | Manulife Financial Asia | Robert Ashworth (Partner) |
Harneys | Regulation S offering by Shimao Property of its 8.375% senior high-yield notes
| $300 million | Shimao Property Holdings |
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Latham & Watkins | PPD’s joint venture with Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories to form PPD-SNBL
| N/A | Pharmaceutical Product Development | Michael Yoshii (Partner)
Saori Kawakami, Kazuko Ali, Nozomi Oda (Associates) |
Maples and Calder | Wowo’s IPO and listing of 4,000,000 ADSs on the NASDAQ
| $40 million | Wowo Limited | Jenny Nip (Partner)
Juno Huang (Associate) |
Norton Rose Fulbright | China Shanshui Cement issuance of 7.5 per cent notes
| $500 million | China Shanshui Cement Group | Psyche Tai and Winnie Chan, Davide Barzilai (Partners)
Eva Tsui, Robert Sit, Charles Lam (Associates)
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Paul Hastings | Shenyin Wanguo as sole sponsor, global coordinator, bookrunner and sole lead manager in Niraku GC Holdings' IPO | HK$384 million ($49.5 million) | Shenyin Wanguo Capital | Sammy Li (Partner)
Samson Suen, Lucy Lam (Associates) |
Sidley Austin | Regulation S offering by Shimao Property of its 8.375% senior high-yield notes
| $300 million | Shimao Property Holdings |
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Sidley Austin | Solicitation of consent by Sunac China of its 12.5% senior notes
| N/A | Sunac China Holdings |
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | $2.5 billion | Alibaba Group Holding | Celia Lam, Leiming Chen (Partners) | |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges | 58.com Inc’s acquisition of a 43.2 percent stake in its privately-held competitor Ganji.com | $412.2 million | Selling shareholder | Tim Gardner (Partner) |
Japan
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Baker & McKenzie | United Corporation, Renova Inc., Kuni Umi Asset’s investment in a woody biomass power plant
| $104 million | United Corporation, Renova Inc., Kuni Umi Asset Management (Sponsors) | Toshio Shimada (Partner)
Kosuke Suzuki Yoko Ishii (Associates)
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Latham & Watkins | Pharmaceutical Product Development’s joint venture with Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories | N/A | Pharmaceutical Product Development | Michael Yoshii (Partner)
Saori Kawakami Kazuko Ali Nozomi Oda (Associates) |
TMI Associates | Pharmaceutical Product Development’s joint venture with Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories | N/A | Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories |
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South Korea
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
DLA Piper | Anchor Equity Partners and KRR’s bid to acquire controlling stake in Ticket Monster from Groupon | $360 million | Groupon |
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Kirkland & Ellis | Anchor Equity Partners and KRR’s bid to acquire controlling stake in Ticket Monster from Groupon | $360 million | KKR | Sean Rodgers, Leo Greenberg (Partners) |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
| Anchor Equity Partners and KRR’s bid to acquire controlling stake in Ticket Monster from Groupon | $360 million | Anchor Equity Partners | Peter Feist (Partner) |
