The annual China Law & Practice Awards will take place on September 17 at the JW Marriott in Beijing. Please contact Danny Collins at [email protected] to reserve your table.

Make sure to also check the shortlists for the Teams and Firms of the Year and the Individuals of the Year.

If your firm participated in one of these deals but is not mentioned in the shortlist, or you would like to discuss the nominated deals, please contact the editor at [email protected].

DEALS OF THE YEAR

Debt & Equity-linked

Alibaba's US$8 billion bond offering

Fangda Partners
King & Wood Mallesons
Maples and Calder
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell

Bank of China's US$6.5 billion AT1 preference shares offering

Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Jingtian & Gongcheng
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters

CDBL Funding 1's US$650 million bond offering

Clifford Chance
Jun He
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
Matheson
Walkers

Greenland's US$1 billion bond offering

AllBright Law Offices
Commerce & Finance Law Offices
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Linklaters
Maples and Calder

ICBC's triple currency AT1 preference shares offering

Allen & Overy
Jun He
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters

Equity

Alibaba IPO

Conyers Dill & Pearman
Fangda Partners
Harney Westwood & Riegels
King & Wood Mallesons
Maples and Calder
Morrison & Foerster
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell

CAR IPO

Conyers Dill & Pearman
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Han Kun Law Offices
King & Wood Mallesons
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

CGN Power IPO

Clifford Chance
Grandall Law Firm
King & Wood Mallesons
Shearman & Sterling

Dalian Wanda IPO

Appleby
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
King & Wood Mallesons
Reed Smith Richards Butler
Tian Yuan Law Firm

GF Securities IPO

Clifford Chance
Jia Yuan Law Offices
King & Wood Mallesons
Latham & Watkins

M&A

CSR and China CNR's US$26 billion merger

Baker & McKenzie
Grandall Law Firm
Haiwen & Partners
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
Morrison & Foerster

Shenyin & Wanguo's US$6.4 billion acquisition of Hong Yuan

Appleby
Haiwen & Partners

Sinopec Marketing's 29.9% stake sale

AllBright Law Offices
AnJie Law Firm
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fangda Partners
Haiwen & Partners
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Jia Yuan Law Offices
King & Wood Mallesons
Llinks Law Offices
Morrison & Foerster
Sullivan & Cromwell
Tian Yuan Law Firm

Whirlpool's acquisition of 51% stake in Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Llinks Law Offices

Private Equity

China Huarong's 20.98% stake sale

Clifford Chance
King & Wood Mallesons
Paul Hastings
Zhong Lun Law Firm

Chindex privatisation

Cleary Gotlieb Steen & Hamilton
Fangda Partners
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Troutman Sanders

iSoftStone privatisation

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fangda Partners
Han Kun Law Offices
Kirkland & Ellis
Maples and Calder
O'Melveny & Myers
Walkers
Zhong Lun Law Firm

Yongye privatisation

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Alston & Bird
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Conyers Dill & Pearman
DeHeng Law Offices
Han Kun Law Offices
Loeb & Loeb
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges

Project Finance

Beijing Enterprises Water Group's wastewater project

Appleby
Ashurst
King & Wood Mallesons
White & Case

China Railway Development Fund

Zhong Lun Law Firm

Shanghai Electric's financing for acquisition of Ansaldo Energia

Fangda Partners
Herbert Smith Freehills

Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical's chemical plant project

DLA Piper
Fangda Partners

Energy & Natural Resources

China Guodian's share transfer to China Power Investment

Sunshine Law Firm

Chinalco Finance's US$500 million bond offering

Clifford Chance
Guantao Law Firm
Linklaters

Fosun's acquisition of Roc Oil

Herbert Smith Freehills
Norton Rose Fulbright

Glencore Xstrata's Las Bambas copper project sale

Baker & McKenzie
Carey
Clifford Chance
Dentons
Guerrero Olivos
Linklaters
Miranda & Amado Abogados
Rodrigo Elias & Medrano
Sullivan & Cromwell
White & Case

LDK Solar's global restructuring

Allen & Overy
Campbells
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Hogan Lovells
Maples and Calder
Mayer Brown JSM
Schultze & Braun
Sidley Austin
Ropes & Gray
Walkers

Real Estate & Construction

APG's acquisition of 20% stake in and JV with e-Shang

Allen & Overy
Baker & McKenzie
Walkers

China Overseas Land's acquisition of CSCEC's property portfolio

Jingtian & Gongcheng
Norton Rose Fulbright

China Vanke and Blackstone JV

Allen & Overy
Ropes & Gray
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Zhong Lun Law Firm

HYZL and China Everbright Group's acquisition of Cheung Kong's Oriental Financial Centre

King & Wood Mallesons

TMT

58.com's acquisition of 43% stake in Ganji.com

Han Kun Law Offices
Kirkland & Ellis
Maples and Calder
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges

Alibaba's US$590 million acquisition of Meizu

Conyers Dill & Pearman
Fangda Partners
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Maples and Calder
Sidley Austin

Baofeng IPO

Global Law Office
Jingtian & Gongcheng

Didi and Kuaidi merger

Fangda Partners
Han Kun Law Offices
Maples and Calder
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Walkers

Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's x86 server business

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Hogan Lovells
Jin Mao Partners

Outbound

Anbang Insurance's US$1.95 billion acquisition of Waldorf Astoria

Dentons
Greenberg Traurig
Fried Frank
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

AVIC Electromechanical Systems' US$645 million acquisition of Hilite

Noerr
Wilkie Farr & Gallagher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Zhong Lun Law Firm

China Mobile's acquisition of 18% stake in True Corporation

Clifford Chance
Linklaters

COFCO's acquisition of Noble Agri and Nidera

Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Han Kun Law Offices
Hogan Lovells
Linklaters
Maples and Calder
NautaDutilh
Walkers