To report inaccuracies and omissions, please email Rowena Muñiz at rowena.muniz@tr.com

Back to top

China and Hong Kong

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Sands China's notes offering

$5.5 billion

 

Partner
Derek Dostal
Michael Farber
Gerhard Radtke

Counsel
Stephenie Fung

Associates
Ferrell Maguire Keel
Gina Y. Chen

Jingtian & Gongcheng

Pinduoduo's IPO listing on Nasdaq

$1.63 billion

Credit Suisse Securities (USA), Goldman Sachs (Asia), CICC Hong Kong, and China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong)

 

King & Wood Mallesons

Pinduoduo's IPO listing on Nasdaq

$1.63 billion

Pinduoduo

 

Kirkland & Ellis

Pinduoduo's IPO listing on Nasdaq

$1.63 billion

Credit Suisse Securities (USA), Goldman Sachs (Asia), CICC Hong Kong, and China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong)

 

Maples and Calder

Pinduoduo's IPO listing on Nasdaq

$1.63 billion

Pinduoduo

Partner
Richard Spooner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Pinduoduo's IPO listing on Nasdaq

$1.63 billion

Pinduoduo

Partner
Julie Gao

Counsel
Yuting Wu

Associates
Guang Yang
Karen Song

Clifford Chance

Hong Kong Broadbank Network's proposed acquisition of WTT Holding

HK$10.5 billion (approximately $1.34 billion)

MBK Partners and TPG

Partner
Andrew Whan
Dave Poddar

Senior Associate
Maureen Ho
Mark Grime

Associates
Michelle Kwok
Jonathan Yan
Kathryn Hender

Latham & Watkins

Hong Kong Broadbank Network's proposed acquisition of WTT Holding

HK$10.5 billion (approximately $1.34 billion)

Hong Kong Broadband Network

Partners
Simon Cooke
Terris Tang

Associates
Maurice Conway
Bing Xi Sia
Yingshi Pan

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Hope Education Group's IPO

HK$3.1 billion (approximately $389.7 million)

Hope Education Group

Partners
Bonnie Y. Chan
Li He

Counsels
Stephenie Fung
Alon Gurfinkel
Jeanine P. McGuinness

Associates
Jeffery Chan
Veronica Orecharova

Foreign Registered Lawyers
Fei (Grace) Kong
Xiaotong (Lisa) Yuan

Jingtian & Gongcheng

Hope Education Group's IPO

HK$3.1 billion (approximately $389.7 million)

Citigroup Global Markets Asia and China Merchants Securities (HK)

 

Maples and Calder

Hope Education Group's IPO

HK$3.1 billion (approximately $389.7 million)

Hope Education Group

Partner
Derrick Kan

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Hope Education Group's IPO

HK$3.1 billion (approximately $389.7 million)

Citigroup Global Markets Asia and China Merchants Securities (HK)

 

Tian Yuan Law Firm

Hope Education Group's IPO

HK$3.1 billion (approximately $389.7 million)

Hope Education Group

 

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Vanke Service's investment in Cushman & Wakefield

$180 million

Vanke Service

Partners
Paul Chow
James C. Lin
Jonathan Cooklin
John B. Reynolds III

Registered Foreign Lawyers
Brian J. Snyder
Jennifer Liu

Counsels
Mary K. Marks
Nicholas Spearing

Associate
Dominic Foulkes

Kirkland & Ellis

Opera's offering and listing ADS on NASDAQ

$115.2 million

Opera

 

Maples and Calder

Opera's offering and listing ADS on NASDAQ

$115.2 million

Opera

Partner
Everton Robertson

Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Opera's offering and listing ADS on NASDAQ

$115.2 million

CICC, Citigroup and Carnegie

 

Tian Yuan Law Firm

Opera's offering and listing ADS on NASDAQ

$115.2 million

Opera

 

Zhong Lun Law Firm

Opera's offering and listing ADS on NASDAQ

$115.2 million

CICC, Citigroup and Carnegie

 

Paul Hastings

CIMC-TianDa's acquisition of controlling interest in Shenyang Jietong Fire Truck

600 million renminbi (approximately $88 million)

CIMC-TianDa Holdings

Partner
Raymond Li

Counsel
Bonnie Kong

Associates
Andi Tam
Terence Siu

Haiwen & Partners

Aurora Mobile's IPO

$77 million

Goldman Sachs (Asia), Credit Suisse Securities (USA) and Deutsche Bank Securities

 

Han Kun Law Offices

Aurora Mobile's IPO

$77 million

Aurora Mobile

 

Maples and Calder

Aurora Mobile's IPO

$77 million

Aurora Mobile

Partner
Richard Spooner

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Aurora Mobile's IPO

$77 million

Goldman Sachs (Asia), Credit Suisse Securities (USA) and Deutsche Bank Securities

 

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Aurora Mobile's IPO

$77 million

Aurora Mobile

Partner
Julie Gao

Counsel
Shu Du

Associates
Jie Zhang
Yadi Fan
Frank Xu

International Legal Consultant
Zhihong Yao

Conyers Dill & Pearman

Ocean Line Port Development's IPO

HK$76 million (approximately $9.7 million)

Ocean Line Port Development

Partner
Lilian Woo

Back to top

India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Allen & Overy

The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of 21st Century Fox' businesses

$71.3 billion

21st Century Fox

 

AZB & Partners

The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of 21st Century Fox' businesses

$71.3 billion

The Walt Disney Company

 

Covington and Burling

The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of 21st Century Fox' businesses

$71.3 billion

The Walt Disney Company

 

TT&A Advocates and Solicitors

The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of 21st Century Fox' businesses

$71.3 billion

21st Century Fox

Counsel
P Ram Kumar

Associates
Toshit Shandilya
Rahat Dhawan

AZB & Partners

HDFC's issuance of equity shares by way of QIP and ADR

151.3 billion rupees (approximately $2.2 billion

DSP Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse Securities (India), J.P. Morgan India, Morgan Stanley India, Edelweiss Financial Services, IIFL Holdings, JM Financial, Motilal Oswal Investment Advisors, BNP Paribas Securities, Credit Suisse Securities, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Securities, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Morgan Stanley, Nomura Securities International and UBS Securities

Partners
Varoon Chandra
Lionel D'Almeida

Senior Associates
Richa Choudhary
Pamela Kar

AZB & Partners

HDFC's IPO

approximately $408 million

HDFC Asset Management Company

Partners
Varoon Chandra
Rushabh Maniar
Ami Parikh
Lionel D’Almeida

Senior Associates
Richa Choudhary

J. Sagar Associates

Shyam Metallics and Energy's IPO

9.09 million rupees ($131.5 million)

ICICI Securities, Edelweiss Financial Services, IIFL Holdings and JM Financial

Partners
Vikram Raghani
Arka Mookerjee

Senior Associates
Pracheta Bhattacharya
Swapneil Akut

Associates
Rushab Dhandokia
Krupa Brahmbhatt
Farah Titina
Ananth Balaji

Junior Associates
Sourav Modi
Kairav Parikh
Kinjal Shah

AZB & Partners

TPG's acquisition of Five-Star Business Finance's equity and preference shares

7 billion rupees ($100 million)

TPG Asia VII

Partners
Ashwin Ramanathan
Roxanne Anderson

J. Sagar Associates

Clix Capital’s issuance of unlisted, rated, unsecured, non-convertible debentures

500 crores (approximately $75.2 million)

Clix Capital

Joint Managing Partner
Dina Wadia

Partner
Anjana J Potti

Senior Associate
Abhishek Subbaiah

Associate
Sindhuja Satti

AZB & Partners

Kotak Mahindra's issuance of fully paid-up non-convertible Basel III compliant, perpetual non-convertible shares on a private placement basis

5 billion rupees (approximately $75 million)

Kotak Mahindra Bank

Partner
Varoon Chandra

Senior Associate
Richa Chaudhary

AZB & Partners

Amalgamation of Asian Paints International into Asian Paints and transfer of the entire business Asian Paints

More than $50 million

Asian Paints

Partner
Nilanjana Singh

AZB & Partners

Eight Roads Ventures, Nokia, Qualcomm and Mirae Asset's acquisition of stake in Shadowfax Technologies

1.51 billion rupees (approximately $22 million)

Nokia Growth Partners IV (NGP)

Partners
Gautam Saha
Dushyant Bagga

Senior Associates
Nikhil Bahl

J. Sagar Associates

Eight Roads Ventures, Nokia, Qualcomm and Mirae Asset's acquisition of stake in Shadowfax Technologies

1.51 billion rupees (approximately $22 million)

Eight Roads Ventures

Partner
Manvinder Singh

Senior Associate
Sonali Kapoor

AZB & Partners

ON Mauritius’s acquisition of stake in Kenrise Media

103 million rupees (approximately $1.5 million)

ON Mauritius

Partner
Ashwath Rau

Senior Associates
Atreya Bhattacharya
Raina Upadhyay
Puneet Parihar
Kirti Balasubramanian

AZB & Partners

Cisco's acquisition of Jaguar Acquisition

Undisclosed

Cisco Systems

Partners
Gautam Saha
Amrita Patnaik

Senior Associates
Punita Gupta
Pragya Sood

Associates
Harshit Chandra
Karthika Annamalai

Goldmount Advisors

S Chand and Company's acquisition of interest in Chetana Publications

Undisclosed

Chetana Group

 

J. Sagar Associates

S Chand and Company's acquisition of interest in Chetana Publications

Undisclosed

S Chand and Company

Partner
Manvinder Singh

Principal Associate
Ronak Ajmera

Senior Associate
Abhishek Kumar Singh

Associate
Aishwarya Malik

Back to top

Indonesia

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Allen & Overy

PT Danusa Tambang Nusantara's acquisition of interests in Martabe gold and silver mine in North Sumatra

$1.21 billion

EMR Capital

 

King & Wood Mallesons

PT Danusa Tambang Nusantara's acquisition of interests in Martabe gold and silver mine in North Sumatra

$1.21 billion

EMR Capital

Partners
Mark McNamara
Paul Schroder

Senior Associate
Mark Vanderneut

Solicitors
Eunice Leung
Jing Wang

Linklaters

PT Danusa Tambang Nusantara's acqusition of interests in Martabe gold and silver mine in North Sumatra

$1.21 billion

Danusa Tambang Nusantara

 

Back to top

Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) Involved

Allen & Gledhill

Temasek Financial's issuance of guaranteed notes due 2028 and guaranteed global medium-term note program

$21.35 billion

Temasek Financial

Partners
Yeo Wico
Wu Zhaoqi
Sunit Chhabra

Allen & Gledhill

Land Transportation Authority of Singapore's issuance of notes due 2058

S$1.5 billion (approximately $1 billion)

Land Transport Authority of Singapore

Partners
Margaret Chin
Sunit Chhabra

Allen & Gledhill

Housing and Development Board's issuance of fixed rate notes due 2030

S$1.2 billion (approximately $872 million)

Housing and Development Board

Partners
Margaret Chin
Sunit Chhabra

Allen & Gledhill

Public Utilities board's issuance of bonds due 2033

S$300 million (approximately $218 million)

Public Utilities Board

Partners
Sunit Chhabra

Back to top

Related Articles

Asia Deals: Week of March 12

by Rowena Muñiz |

SAM & Co. stars on Blackstone's $17 bln strategic partnership with Thomson Reuters, Milbank on AirAsia's $1.18 bln sale of its aircraft portfolio, and many more in this week's Asia Deals table

Asia Deals: Week of March 19

by Rowena Muñiz |

Paul Weiss on Tencent's $461 mln bet on Chinese live-streaming platform, Paul Hastings on New Focus Auto's $104 mln equity transfer agreement with Chuangying Auto and many more in this week's Asia Deals table.

Asia Deals: Week of April 2

by Rowena Muñiz |

Paul Weiss stars on Tencent's $9.8 bln deal with Naspers, AZB on IDFC Bank's $1.5 bln merger, and many more in this week's Asia Deals table.