China
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | Golden Wheel Tiandi Holdings Limited’s Regulation S offering of its 9.50% senior notes due 2017 | $100 million | Initial purchasers | William F. Barron (Partner)
Margie Chan, Alon Gurfinkel (Counsel)
Lin Ma, Bingqing Pan (Registered foreign lawyers)
Patrick Peng, Nicholas A. Machen (Associates) |
Kirkland & Ellis | China Grand Automotive’s acquisition of a maximum of 75% of the issued share capital of Baoxin Auto Group | $1.5 billion | China Grand Automotive Co. Limited | Nicholas Norris, Joey Chau (Partners)
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Paul Hastings | NewQuest Capital’s same of China Hydroelectric Corporation to Shenzhen Energy | $492 million | NewQuest Capital Partners | Woojae Kim, David Wang, Daniel Kim, Jia Yan (Partners)
Ting Wang, Joyce Du (Associates) |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | BTG Hotels and Homeinns Hotel Group’s definitive merger agreement | $1.7 billion | Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Homeinns Hotel Group | Katie Sudol (Partner)
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Hong Kong
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Clifford Chance | $1.8 billion | China Energy Engineering Corporation Limited | Tim Wang, Fang Liu (Partners)
Ning Liu (Counsel) Corey Zhang, Lawrence Zhang, Crystal Zhang, Erxin Lu, Xiaoxi Liu (Associates) | |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | HK$2.06 billion ($266 million) | SCMP Group Limited |
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Debevoise & Plimpton | American International Group’s sale of stake in PICC Property and Casualty via a block trade in Hong Kong | $1 billion | American International Group | E. Drew Dutton, James C. Scoville (Partners) Danielle de Zorzi, Fengjian Ao (Associates) |
Dentons | $1.8 billion | China Energy Engineering Corporation Limited |
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | $1.8 billion | Underwriters |
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Jia Yuan Law Offices | $1.8 billion | Underwriters |
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Mayer Brown JSM | Ten Pao Group Holdings’ global offering and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange |
| Ten Pao Group Holdings | Billy Au (Partner)
Jeremy Hsu, Wilson Chong (Associates) |
Norton Rose Fulbright | HK$2.06 billion ($266 million) | SCMP Group Limited | Jon Perry (Partner)
Esther Yee (Associate) | |
Simmons & Simmons | Blue Sky Power Holdings Limited’s issuance of convertible bonds | HK$200 million |
| Christine Zhao, Sophie Qu, Macy Chu (Associates) |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Tencent Holdings Limited and Huayi Brothers’ agreements to subscribe for new shares of Jiuhao Health Industry Corporation Limited | HK$547 million ($69 million) | Tencent Holdings Limited | Gregory Miao, Christopher Betts (Partners)
Anthony Pang, Peter Pang, Yuting Wu, Flora Lu, Xing Lin (Associates) |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Cogobuy Group’s acquisition of Shenzhen Comtech Small Loan Co. Ltd | HK$375 million ($47.4 million
| Cogobuy Group | Christopher Betts (Partner)
Anthony Pang (Associate) |
Slaughter & May | HK$2.06 billion ($266 million) | Alibaba Group | Benita Yu, Clara Choi (Partners) Eric Fung, Xiaozheng Ko, Benjamin Luo (Associates) |