Deals of the year – China Law & Practice Awards

July 12, 2012 | BY

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The deals of the year for China's most prestigious legal awards have been finalised. Find out who made the cut with firms, teams and regional firms of the year already released



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Debt & Equity-linked


Yanzhou Coal Mining US$1 billion guaranteed notes offering

Baker & McKenzie
Freehills
King & Wood Mallesons
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Jingtian & Gongcheng

Agricultural Development Bank of China Rmb3 billion bond offering

Linklaters
King & Wood Mallesons
Clifford Chance
Jun He Law Offices

Sinopec US$3 billion senior notes offering

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Haiwen & Partners
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Davis Polk & Wardwell

COFCO Rmb3 billion bond offering

Simmons & Simmons

Linklaters

Jun He Law Offices

Baosteel Rmb3 billion offshore dim sum bond offering

Allen & Overy
Jingtian & Gongcheng

Linklaters
Fangda & Partners

Energy & Natural Resources

YASREF US$8.5 billion joint venture

Vinson & Elkins
White & Case


China Niobium Investment Holdings US$1.36 billion acquisition financed by China Development Bank

Concord & Partners
Machado, Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados

White & Case
Global Law Offices
Dias Carneiro Advogados

Kunlun Energy $1.35 billion top-up placement

Clifford Chance

Sullivan & Cromwell

Shandong Iron & Steel's investment in African Minerals's Tonkolili iron ore project and the associated acquisition financing

Linklaters

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Yada Williams & Associates

White & Case

Equity

Prada US$2.47 billion IPO

Slaughter & May
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Clifford Chance
Fangda
Partners
Jun He Law Offices
Bonelli Erede Pappalardo

Chow Tai Fook US$2 billion IPO

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Commerce & Finance Law Offices

Linklaters

Haiwen & Partners


Shanghai Pharmaceuticals US1.95 billion IPO

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Clifford Chance
Sullivan & Cromwell
Grandall Law Firm
King & Wood Mallesons

Haitong Securities US$1.68 billion IPO

Clifford Chance
Paul Hastings
Grandall Law Firm
Commerce & Finance Law Offices

New China Life Insurance US$1.9 billion IPO

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Davis Polk & Wardwell

Commerce & Finance
Law Offices
Slaughter & May
Sullivan & Cromwell
King & Wood Mallesons

Mergers & Acquisitions

Youku US$1.1 billion merger with Tudou through a stock swap

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Conyers Dill & Pearman

TransAsia Lawyers
Kirkland & Ellis

Fangda Partners

Maples & Calder

AMC's US$2.6 billion sale to the Dalian Wanda Group

Davis Polk & Wardwell
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Weil, Gotshal & Manges


PepsiCo's strategic alliance with Tingyi

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
King & Wood Mallesons
Sidley Austin
Commerce & Finance Law Offices

Alibaba privitisation

Slaughter & May

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

White & Case

Norton Rose

King & Wood Mallesons

Fangda Partners

Allen & Overy

Maples & Calder

Walkers


Joy Global US$1.4 billion acquisition of IMM

Allen & Overy

Hogan Lovells

Mayer Brown JSM

Broad & Bright Law Firm

Kirkland & Ellis

Outbound

China Three Gorges Corporation US$3.5 billion acquisition in Portugal

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Tian Yuan Law Firm

Serra Lopes, Cortes Martins & Associados
Guarrigues

Araoz & Rueda

Barbosa, Mussnich & Aragao

Morais Leitao, Galvao Teles, Soares da Silva


Sinopec's US$5.15 billion acquisition of Brazil's Galp Energia

Vinson & Elkins

Machado, Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados

Linklaters

Lefosse Advogados

Jinchuan's unsolicited overbid by way of scheme of arrangement for Metorex

Allen & Overy
DLA Piper

Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr


Bright Food's acquisition of Diva Bordeaux

Herbert Smith

Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier

Sichuan Hongda Group's US$3 Billion Investment in Coal and Iron Ore Projects in Tanzania

Cleary Gottlieb

DLP Piper

K&M Advocates

IMMMA Advocates

Private Equity

Harbin Electric privitisation

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Shearman & Sterling
White & Case

Davis Polk & Wardwell

King & Wood Mallesons

Loeb & Loeb

Gibson Dunn

Jingtian & Gongcheng

China Fire & Security privatisation by Bain Capital

Kirkland & Ellis

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Shearman & Sterling

Han Kun Law Offices

DLA Piper

Allen & Overy

Affinity and Unitas Capital's sale of Leader Harvest Power Technologies Holdings

Clifford Chance

Conyers Dill & Pearman

Chemspec International privatisation

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Shearman & Sterling
White & Case
Latham & Watkins
Commerce & Finance Law Offices

Conyers Dill & Pearman

Maples & Calder
O'Melveny & Myers
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Walkers

Funtalk China Holdings privitisation

Latham & Watkins
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Shearman & Sterling
Han Kun Law Offices


Project Finance

ICBC oil-backed financing to Venezuela company PDVSA

Linklaters

D'Empaire Reyna Abogados

Hogan Lovells


Export-Import Bank of China US$1.68 billion loan to CNAC

Jun He Law Offices
Shook Lin & Bok
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
King & Wood Mallesons
Kirkland & Ellis

King Abdullah Project 2 US$1.86 billion project financing

White & Case
Walkers

Vinh Tan 1 BOT USD1.75 billion Financing

Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance

Vilaf Hong Duc

Audier & Partners

Noble Group $3.2 billion revolving loan facility

Allen & Overy

Clifford Chance

Real Estate & Construction

Baha Mar Resorts and tourism project financed by Export-Import Bank of China

Paul Hastings
Allen & Overy

Perennial China Retail Trust's US$627 million business trust

Paul Hastings
Allen & Gledhill
Commerce & Finance Law Offices


Nike Greater China at The Springs

Fried Frank
King & Wood Mallesons
Fangda Partners

Home Inns purchase of Motel 168

Paul Hastings
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Fangda Partners
Maples & Calder

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Carlyle's Mandarin hotel chain acquisition of Mandarin Hotel Holdings

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison

Han Kun Law Offices

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