China
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Allen & Overy | Issuance of a panda bond in the China interbank bond market |
| BOC HK, HSBC | Jane Jiang (Partner)
Agnes Tsang (Consultant) |
Herbert Smith Freehills | Issuance of Tier 2 capital notes | $2 billion | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited | Tom Chau (Partner)
Zhong Wang (Counsel)
Isaac Chen (Associate) |
Paul Hastings | Shanghai Electric’s sale of Goss International to American Industrial Partners |
| Shanghai Electric (Group) Corporation, Shanghai Mechanical & Electrical Industry Co., Ltd. | Neil Torpey, Jia Yan (Partners)
Joyce Du, Cecilia Wang, Jennifer Cheng (Associate) |
Paul Hastings | Fangdd.com’s Series C round fundraising | $223 million | Lead investor: Fountainvest Partners (Asia) Limited | Victor Chen, Douglas Freeman (Partners)
Coral Yu (Associate) |
Hong Kong
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Conyers Dill & Pearman (BVI counsel) | AVIC International Finance Limited’s issuance of 3.3% bonds due 2018 | $50 million | AVIC International Finance Limited | Anna Chong (Partner) |
Linklaters | Manulife's acquisition of the Hong Kong pension business of Standard Chartered Bank |
| Manulife | Matthew Middleditch (Partner)
Penny Barsha (Associate) |
Linklaters | AVIC International Finance Limited’s issuance of 3.3% bonds due 2018 | $50 million |
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Jingtian & Gongcheng | AVIC International Finance Limited’s issuance of 3.3% bonds due 2018 | $50 million |
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Japan
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Clifford Chance | State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan’s acquisition of a retail building in Ginza, Tokyo | JPY 50 billion ($417 million) | State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan
| Eiichi Kanda, Leng-Fong Lai (Partners)
Satoshi Nomura (Counsel)
Yoshiaki Shimizu (Associate) |
Clifford Chance and Indonesian associate firm Linda Widyati & Partners (LWP) | Government of Indonesia’s samurai bond issuance | JPY 100 billion ($799 million) | Government of Indonesia | Clifford Chance: Reiko Sakimura, Eiichi Kanda (Partners)
Yu Nimura (Associate)
LWP: Arisia Pusponegoro (Partner)
Jeroen Koster (Senior Foreign Counsel)
Tiara Yara, Dinasti Brian Harahap (Associates) |
Jones Day | Reynolds American Inc.’s sale of international rights in the Natural American Spirit to Japan Tobacco Group | $5 billion | Reynolds American | Randi Lesnick (Partner) |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Reynolds American Inc.’s sale of international rights in the Natural American Spirit to Japan Tobacco Group | $5 billion | Japan Tobacco |
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Comcast’s acquisition of a 51% stake in Universal Studios Japan | $1.5 billion | Principal selling shareholders
| Julian Pritchard, Junzaburo Kiuchi, Edward Cole (Partners)
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