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China and Hong Kong 

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Ashurst

Shagang's financing for the acquisition of Global Switch

$986.8 million

Jiangsu Shagang Group Company

Partners
Daniel Lau
Frank Bi

Associates
Mavis Lau
Roger Dong

Allen & Overy

Ping An's acquisition of interest in TutorGroup

Undisclosed

Ping An

Partners
Michael Jacobs
Jack Wang
Matthew Bisley

Associates
Quentin Liu
Kelly Wang
Liam Li
Cynthia Shen
Mingrui Jin

Counsel
Susana Ng

Clifford Chance

Permira Funds' proposed acquisition of Topcast Aviation Supplies' shares

Undisclosed

Permira

Partners
Bryan Koo
Matt Truman
Richard Blewett

Senior Associate
I-Ming Tan

 

Associates
Jonathan Yan
Cynthia Zhang 
Beej Radia
Xiang Li

Consultant
Clara Shirota

Kirkland & Ellis

Permira Funds' proposed acquisition of Topcast Aviation Supplies' shares

Undisclosed

Topcast Aviation Supplies

Partners
Nicholas Norris
Derek Poon
David Irvine

India

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

AZB & Partners

Footpath's acquisition of shares in Trustroot Internet.

$400 million

Foothpath Ventures

Partner
Vaidhyanadhan Iyer

Senior Associate
Vasudha Asher

AZB & Partners

PI Opportunities Fund – I and other investors' acquisition of Aditya Birla Capital equity capital

$300 million

Premji Invest

Partners
Srinath Dasari
Nanditha Gopal

Associate
Adoksh Shastry

J. Sagar Associates

Export-Import Bank of India's issuance of dual- tranche samurai bonds

$297 million

Export-Import Bank of India 

Partners
Dina Wadia
Uttara Kolhatkar
Kumarmanglam Vijay

Khaitan & Co

Advised Advent International's acquisition of stake in Aditya Birla Capital

$293 million

Advent India PE Advisors

Partner
Aakash Choubey

Principal Associates
Abhishek Dadoo
Vidushi Gupta
Rahul Singh
Anisha Chand
Atul Pandey

Senior Associate
Abir Sarkar

Associates
Reshma Abraham
Tanvi Dabir

J. Sagar Associates

Advent International acquisition of stake in DFM Foods from Westbridge

$118 million to $130 million

Advent International

Partners
Vikram Raghani
Anand Lakra

Associates
Ami Shah
Khamir Kamdar

J. Sagar Associates

ECB Facility availed by Fortum Finnsurya Energy and Fortum Amrit Energy

$128.6 million

DBS Bank

Partners
Dina Wadia
Kavita Patwardhan
Vishnu Sudarsan
Megha Arora

Principal Associate
Shashank Singh

Associates
Shrijita Bhattacharya
Rishabh Jain

AZB & Partners

General Catalyst Ventures' acquisition of shares in Dreamplug Technologies

$120 million

General Catalyst Ventures

Partners
Ashwath Rau
Shreya Rao

Counsel
Jasmin Karkhanis

Senior Associate
Karan Nelivigi

Khaitan & Co

Zentiva's purchase of Sanofi India's API manufacturing facility

$36 million

Zentiva Group

Partners
Anshul Prakash
Surbhi Kejriwal
Atul Pandey

Principal Associate
Shantanu Gupta

Senior Associates
Varun Narayan
Sneha Oak Joshi
Abhimanyu Pal
Hirak Mukhopadhyay

Associates
Srijanee Bhattacherjee
Kanika Mathew

S&R Associates

Bertelsmann India Investments' follow-on investment in Lendingkart Technologies

$30 million

Bertelsmann India Investments

Partners
Rachael Israel
Prachi Goel

J. Sagar Associates

Lightstone Fund's investment in Sri Kauvery Medical Care by way of subscription to securities

$28.7 million

Sri Kauvery Medical Care

Partners
Aarthi Sivanandh
Bhavana Alexander

Associates
Pavithra Manivannan
Krishna Viswanathan

Khaitan & Co

HCL Technologies' acquisition of Sankalp Semiconductor

$25 million

HCL Technologies

Partners
Bharat Anand
Tanvi Kumar

Senior Associates
Nikita Bhuwania
Akhil Sharma

AZB & Partners

BOLD Business Opportunities for L’Oréal Development acquisition of certain units in Fireside Ventures Investment Fund

Undisclosed

BOLD Business Opportunities for L’Oréal Development

Partners
Sunil Agarwal
Aditya Singh Chandel
Pallabi Ghosal
Akansha Aggarwal

Japan

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Baker McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise)

Financing of Asahi's acquisition of Carlton & United Breweries from AB InBev

$11 billion

SMBC

Partners
Gavin Raftery
Shinichiro Kitamura

Senior Associate
 Emiko Horikawa

Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Gledhill

SPH REIT's establishment of multicurrency debt issuance programme and issue of S subordinated perpetual securities

$1.3 billion

HSBC
OCBC
BNY Mellon

Partners
Margaret Chin
Daselin Ang
Sunit Chhabra

Allen & Gledhill

Singtel Group Treasury's issuance of notes

$750 million

Singtel Group Treasury
Singapore Telecommunications

Partners
Yeo Wico
Bernie Lee.
Sunit Chhabra.
Tan Wee Meng
Yeo Boon Kiat

Allen & Gledhill

CapitaLand Treasury's issuance of notes

$580 million

CapitaLand Treasury
CapitaLand

Partners
Tan Tze Gay
Wu Zhaoqi
Sunit Chhabra

Allen & Gledhill

Issue of subordinated perpetual securities by Keppel Infrastructure Trust

$217.5 million

Keppel Infrastructure Fund Management

Partners
Bernie Lee
Sunit Chhabra

Allen & Gledhill

Mapletree Treasury Services' issuance of notes

$217.5 million

Mapletree Treasury
Mapletree Investments

Partner
Glenn Foo

RHTLaw Taylor Wessing

BreadTalk Group's proposed acquisition of Food Junction Management

$58 million

BreadTalk Group

Partners
Ch’ng Li-Ling
Yang Eu Jin

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