Asia Legal Awards 2017: Finalists announced
January 13, 2017 | BY
Katherine Jo &clp articles &The top firms, lawyers and deals across Asia-Pacific that made the cut for this year's Asia Legal Awards, presented by sibling publication The Asian Lawyer
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We are pleased to unveil the finalists for The Asian Lawyer's 2017 Asia Legal Awards. Winners will be announced at the dinner gala held on Wednesday, February 22 at the Four Seasons Hotel, Hong Kong.
To reserve your table, please contact Richard Morris at +44 75 8687 0325 or [email protected].
For more information on the ceremony and judging process, please visit www.asialegalawards.com.
Please contact Anna Zhang at [email protected] if your firm is missing on any of the nominated deals.
M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia
ChemChina's $43B acquisition of Syngenta
Bärr & Karrer
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fangda Partners
Homburger
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Didi & Uber China's $35B merger
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fangda Partners
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Han Kun Law Offices
Walkers
JD & Walmart's $1.5B partnership
Han Kun Law Offices
Morrison & Foerster
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Kakao's $1.5B acquisition of Loen Entertainment
Bae, Kim & Lee
Shin & Kim
Lotte's $2.4B acquisition of Samsung's chemical business
Bae, Kim & Lee
Lee & Ko
Softbank's $31B acquisition of ARM Holdings
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Morrison & Foerster
Slaughter and May
White & Case
M&A Deal of the Year: South Asia
Essar Oil's $13B sale to Rosneft & Trafigura
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Slaughter and May
MakeMyTrip's $2B acquisition of ibibo
Appleby
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Latham & Watkins
S&R Associates
Trilegal
Nirma's $1.1B acquisition of Lafarge India
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Pinsent Masons
Tata Power's $1.4B acquisition of Welspun Renewables
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia
Alibaba's $1B acquisition of Lazada
Dechert
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Noerr
Sullivan & Cromwell
Avago's $37B acquisition of Broadcom
Allen & Gledhill
Latham & Watkins
McDermott Will & Emery
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
WongPartnership
Jeonbuk Bank & Apro's $134M acquisition of Phnom Penh Commercial Bank
DFDL
Kim & Chang
Mitsui, Behn Meyer & Myanmar Agribusiness' JV
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar)
Rosneft & Pertamina's $14B partnership
Dentons
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Soemadipradja & Taher
M&A Deal of the Year: Private Equity & Venture Capital
Brookfield's $1B acquisition of IFC Seoul
Kim & Chang
Shin & Kim
KKR & Warburg's $550M investment in GO-JEK
Allen & Overy
Ashurst
Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
Ginting & Reksodiputro
Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners
Latham & Watkins
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
MBK & TPG's $1.2B acquisition of The Wharf T&T
Clifford Chance
Deacons
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Walkers
Xiwang Food & Primavera's $730M acquisition of Iovate Health
Goodmans
Gowling WLG
King & Wood Mallesons
Sidley Austin
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Yokohama Rubber's $1.2B acquisition of Alliance Tire Group
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Nishimura & Asahi
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
M&A Lawyer of the Year
Charles Li – Han Kun Law Offices
Gene Oh Kim – Kim & Chang
Sang Gon Kim – Lee & Ko
Dongwoo Seo – Bae, Kim & Lee
Cyril Shroff – Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Xu Ping – King & Wood Mallesons
M&A Firm of the Year
Bae, Kim & Lee
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Han Kun Law Offices
Kim & Chang
King & Wood Mallesons
Paul Hastings
WongPartnership
Finance Deal of the Year: Acquisitions
Apex-Lexmark $2.6B financing
King & Wood Mallesons
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
White & Case
ChemChina-Syngenta financing
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Linklaters
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Hahn & Company-Ssangyong Cement $675M financing
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Midea-Kuka $4.6B financing
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Softbank-ARM Holdings $10B financing
Baker & McKenzie
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Morrison & Foerster
Slaughter and May
White & Case
VietJet's $11.3B aircraft purchase financing
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Finance Deal of the Year: Projects
Central Java $4.3B coal power project financing
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling
Myingyan $300M IPP financing
Allen & Overy
Mayer Brown JSM
Oyu Tolgoi $4.4B copper and gold mine project financing
Farara Kerins
Kaufhold & Reveillaud, Avocats
Lackowicz & Hoffman
LehmanLaw Mongolia
Loyens & Loeff
MahoneyLiotta
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling
Sullivan & Cromwell
VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne
SMC $435M multi-facility coal power plant financing
Latham & Watkins
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Picazo Buyco
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
Tengizchevroil $16B upstream expansion financing
Latham & Watkins
Sullivan & Cromwell
Yamal LNG $27B project financing
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Finance Deal of the Year: Restructuring & Insolvency
Hyundai Merchant Marine $2.1B restructuring
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Yulchon
Pacific Andes $1.5B liquidation
Clifford Chance
DLA Piper
Drew & Napier
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Linklaters
Mayer Brown JSM
Rajah & Tann
Walkers
WongPartnership
STX O&S $1.1B rehabilitation
Holman Fenwick Willan
Kim & Chang
Watson Farley & Williams
Winsway Enterprises $500M restructuring
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Campbells
Reed Smith Richards Butler
Stephenson Harwood
Walkers
Finance Lawyer of the Year
Chin Chuan Chen – Ashurst
Indri (Mita) Guritno – Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners
Hun Ko – Lee & Ko
Madeline Leong – Watson Farley & Williams
Thomas Ng – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Jack Wang – King & Wood Mallesons
Zhang Xu – DeHeng Law Offices
Finance Firm of the Year
Fangda Partners
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Hogan Lovells
Kim & Chang
Linklaters
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Securities Deal of the Year: Debt
AP Renewables' $225M green bond
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Bank of China's $3B green bond
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Busan Bank's $250M coco bond
Allen & Overy
Bae, Kim & Lee
Geely's $400M green bond
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Haiwen & Partners
King & Wood Mallesons
National Bank of Canada's Rmb4B panda bond
JunHe
Linklaters
Valin Mining's $354M convertible bond
Allens
Ashurst
Latham & Watkins
Jia Yuan Law Firm
King & Wood Mallesons
Securities Deal of the Year: Equity
BOC Aviation $1.1B IPO
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Overy
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Cikarang Listrindo $275M IPO
Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
Herbert Smith Freehills
Shearman & Sterling
ICICI Prudential Life $908M IPO
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Davis Polk & Wardwell
S&R Associates
National Australia Bank's CYBG demerger & $5.5B capital raising
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
Postal Savings Bank $7.4B IPO
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Haiwen & Partners
King & Wood Mallesons
Samsung Biologics $2B IPO
Bae, Kim & Lee
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Lee & Ko
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
SF Logistics $6.3B backdoor listing
Grandall Law Firm
JunHe
Securities Lawyer of the Year
Bonnie Chan – Davis Polk & Wardwell
Wonsik Choo – Lee & Ko
William Liu – Linklaters
Richard Mazzochi – King & Wood Mallesons
Hee-Gang Shin – Bae, Kim & Lee
Anna-Marie Slot – Ashurst
Securities Firm of the Year
Bae, Kim & Lee
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Kim & Chang
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling
Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year
Adam Furber – Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Dean Moroz – Ashurst
Andrew Ostrognai – Debevoise & Plimpton
Eriko Sakata – Linklaters
Effie Vasilopoulos – Sidley Austin
Investment Funds Firm of the Year
Ashurst
Debevoise & Plimpton
King & Wood Mallesons
Sidley Austin
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year
Justin D'Agostino – Herbert Smith Freehills
Swee Yen Koh – WongPartnership
Eung Young Park – Kim & Chang
Thomas So – Mayer Brown JSM
Pyoung Kun Song – Lee & Ko
Bangwei Xu – Jingtian & Gongcheng
Zhenyong Ye – JunHe
Baosheng Zhang – King & Wood Mallesons
Dispute Resolution Firm of the Year
JunHe
Kim & Chang
King & Wood Mallesons
Latham & Watkins
Morrison & Foerster
WongPartnership
Yulchon
Compliance/Investigations Lawyer of the Year
Gary Gao – Zhong Lun Law Firm
Han Cheol Kang – Kim & Chang
Michael Kim – Kobre & Kim
Martin Rogers – Davis Polk & Wardwell
Akihisa Shiozaki – Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Sun Shiqi – Jingtian & Gongcheng
Yuet Ming Tham – Sidley Austin
Compliance/Investigations Firm of the Year
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Kim & Chang
Kobre & Kim
Lee & Ko
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Sidley Austin
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Competition Lawyer of the Year
Kala Anandarajah – Rajah & Tann
Nicholas French – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Janet Hui – JunHe
Min-Ho Lee – Lee & Ko
Susan Ning – King & Wood Mallesons
Keumseok Oh – Bae, Kim & Lee
Fay Zhou – Linklaters
Competition Firm of the Year
Allen & Gledhill
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
JunHe
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Linklaters
Yulchon
Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year
Gabriela Kennedy – Mayer Brown JSM
Taeck Soo Kwon – Bae, Kim & Lee
Choong Jin Oh – Lee & Ko
Xiang Wang – Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Jessica Xu – JunHe
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
Bird & Bird
Hogan Lovells
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Mayer Brown JSM
Employment Lawyer of the Year
Cynthia Chung – Deacons
Sang-Hoon Lee – Lee & Ko
Andrea Randall – Gall
Jenny Tsin – WongPartnership
Jennifer Van Dale – Eversheds
Employment Firm of the Year
Gall
Lee & Ko
Rajah & Tann
WongPartnership
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Energy Lawyer of the Year
Linh Doan – Watson Farley & Williams
Dong Eun Kim – Lee & Ko
Daniel Reinbott – Ashurst
Craig Rogers – King & Wood Mallesons
Stuart Salt – Linklaters
Energy Firm of the Year
Allen & Gledhill (Laos)
Eversheds
Herbert Smith Freehills
King & Wood Mallesons
Lee & Ko
Linklaters
TMT Lawyer of the Year
Luke Grubb – Latham & Watkins
Gabriela Kennedy – Mayer Brown JSM
Mark Parsons – Hogan Lovells
Kwang Hyun Ryoo – Bae, Kim & Lee
David Wang – Paul Hastings
Soon Yub (Samuel) Kwon – Lee & Ko
TMT Firm of the Year
Allen & Gledhill
Bae, Kim & Lee
Han Kun Law Offices
Hogan Lovells
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Mayer Brown JSM
Private Client Lawyer of the Year
Han (Antonio) Chen – Han Kun Law Offices
Radhika Gaggar – Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Richard Norridge – Herbert Smith Freehills
Vikna Rajah – Rajah & Tann
Xiaocheng Wang – Grandall Law Firm
Offshore Law Firm of the Year
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Maples and Calder
Walkers
6 In-house Counsel of Distinction
Sharyn Ch'ang – PwC
Leiming Chen – Ant Financial
Gladys Chun – Lazada
Junghoon Kenneth Oh – LG Display
Yong Kai Wong – CITIC Capital
Jerry Xia – Honeywell
Asian CSR Initiative of the Year
Winner to be revealed on the night
GRAND PRIZES
In-house Legal Department of the Year
Alibaba
Lazada
Intel
LG Chemical
LG Display
MTR Corporation
Telstra
International Law Firm Leader of the Year
William Barron – Davis Polk & Wardwell
Milton Cheng – Baker & McKenzie
Geraint Hughes – Clifford Chance
Michael Kim – Kobre & Kim
Ken Segel – Morrison & Foerster
Patrick Sherrington – Hogan Lovells
Asian Law Firm Leader of the Year
Melli Darsa – Melli Darsa & Co
Masaki Hosaka – Nishimura & Asahi
Sungjin Kim – Bae, Kim & Lee
Lee Eng Beng – Rajah & Tann
Wang Ling – King & Wood Mallesons
Xiao Wei – JunHe
International Law Firm of the Year
Baker & McKenzie
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Hogan Lovells
Linklaters
Paul Hastings
Sidley Austin
Asian Law Firm of the Year
Allen & Gledhill
Bae, Kim & Lee
Fangda Partners
Kim & Chang
King & Wood Mallesons
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
We are pleased to unveil the finalists for The Asian Lawyer's 2017 Asia Legal Awards. Winners will be announced at the dinner gala held on Wednesday, February 22 at the Four Seasons Hotel, Hong Kong.
To reserve your table, please contact Richard Morris at +44 75 8687 0325 or [email protected].
For more information on the ceremony and judging process, please visit www.asialegalawards.com.
Please contact Anna Zhang at [email protected] if your firm is missing on any of the nominated deals.
M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia
ChemChina's $43B acquisition of Syngenta
Bärr & Karrer
Didi & Uber China's $35B merger
Han Kun Law Offices
JD & Walmart's $1.5B partnership
Han Kun Law Offices
Kakao's $1.5B acquisition of Loen Entertainment
Bae, Kim & Lee
Lotte's $2.4B acquisition of Samsung's chemical business
Bae, Kim & Lee
Lee & Ko
Softbank's $31B acquisition of ARM Holdings
Slaughter and May
M&A Deal of the Year: South Asia
Essar Oil's $13B sale to Rosneft & Trafigura
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Slaughter and May
MakeMyTrip's $2B acquisition of ibibo
Appleby
S&R Associates
Trilegal
Nirma's $1.1B acquisition of Lafarge India
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Tata Power's $1.4B acquisition of Welspun Renewables
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia
Alibaba's $1B acquisition of Lazada
Noerr
Avago's $37B acquisition of Broadcom
WongPartnership
Jeonbuk Bank & Apro's $134M acquisition of Phnom Penh Commercial Bank
DFDL
Mitsui, Behn Meyer & Myanmar Agribusiness' JV
Rosneft & Pertamina's $14B partnership
Soemadipradja & Taher
M&A Deal of the Year: Private Equity & Venture Capital
Brookfield's $1B acquisition of IFC Seoul
KKR & Warburg's $550M investment in GO-JEK
Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
Ginting & Reksodiputro
Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners
MBK & TPG's $1.2B acquisition of The Wharf T&T
Deacons
Xiwang Food & Primavera's $730M acquisition of Iovate Health
Gowling WLG
Yokohama Rubber's $1.2B acquisition of Alliance Tire Group
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
M&A Lawyer of the Year
Charles Li – Han Kun Law Offices
Gene Oh Kim –
Sang Gon Kim – Lee & Ko
Dongwoo Seo – Bae, Kim & Lee
Cyril Shroff – Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Xu Ping –
M&A Firm of the Year
Bae, Kim & Lee
Han Kun Law Offices
WongPartnership
Finance Deal of the Year: Acquisitions
Apex-Lexmark $2.6B financing
ChemChina-Syngenta financing
Hahn & Company-Ssangyong Cement $675M financing
Lee & Ko
Midea-Kuka $4.6B financing
Softbank-ARM Holdings $10B financing
Slaughter and May
VietJet's $11.3B aircraft purchase financing
Finance Deal of the Year: Projects
Central Java $4.3B coal power project financing
Myingyan $300M IPP financing
Oyu Tolgoi $4.4B copper and gold mine project financing
Farara Kerins
Kaufhold & Reveillaud, Avocats
Lackowicz & Hoffman
LehmanLaw Mongolia
MahoneyLiotta
VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne
SMC $435M multi-facility coal power plant financing
Picazo Buyco
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
Tengizchevroil $16B upstream expansion financing
Yamal LNG $27B project financing
Finance Deal of the Year: Restructuring & Insolvency
Hyundai Merchant Marine $2.1B restructuring
Lee & Ko
Yulchon
Pacific Andes $1.5B liquidation
WongPartnership
STX O&S $1.1B rehabilitation
Holman Fenwick Willan
Winsway Enterprises $500M restructuring
Campbells
Finance Lawyer of the Year
Chin Chuan Chen –
Indri (Mita) Guritno – Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners
Hun Ko – Lee & Ko
Madeline Leong –
Thomas Ng –
Jack Wang –
Zhang Xu –
Finance Firm of the Year
Securities Deal of the Year: Debt
AP Renewables' $225M green bond
Bank of China's $3B green bond
Busan Bank's $250M coco bond
Bae, Kim & Lee
Geely's $400M green bond
National Bank of Canada's Rmb4B panda bond
JunHe
Valin Mining's $354M convertible bond
Allens
Jia Yuan Law Firm
Securities Deal of the Year: Equity
BOC Aviation $1.1B IPO
Cikarang Listrindo $275M IPO
Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
ICICI Prudential Life $908M IPO
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
S&R Associates
National Australia Bank's CYBG demerger & $5.5B capital raising
Postal Savings Bank $7.4B IPO
Samsung Biologics $2B IPO
Bae, Kim & Lee
Lee & Ko
SF Logistics $6.3B backdoor listing
JunHe
Securities Lawyer of the Year
Bonnie Chan –
Wonsik Choo – Lee & Ko
William Liu –
Richard Mazzochi –
Hee-Gang Shin – Bae, Kim & Lee
Anna-Marie Slot –
Securities Firm of the Year
Bae, Kim & Lee
Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year
Adam Furber –
Dean Moroz –
Andrew Ostrognai –
Eriko Sakata –
Effie Vasilopoulos –
Investment Funds Firm of the Year
Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year
Justin D'Agostino –
Swee Yen Koh – WongPartnership
Eung Young Park –
Thomas So –
Pyoung Kun Song – Lee & Ko
Bangwei Xu –
Zhenyong Ye – JunHe
Baosheng Zhang –
Dispute Resolution Firm of the Year
JunHe
WongPartnership
Yulchon
Compliance/Investigations Lawyer of the Year
Gary Gao –
Han Cheol Kang –
Michael Kim –
Martin Rogers –
Akihisa Shiozaki –
Sun Shiqi –
Yuet Ming Tham –
Compliance/Investigations Firm of the Year
Lee & Ko
Competition Lawyer of the Year
Kala Anandarajah –
Nicholas French –
Janet Hui – JunHe
Min-Ho Lee – Lee & Ko
Susan Ning –
Keumseok Oh – Bae, Kim & Lee
Fay Zhou –
Competition Firm of the Year
JunHe
Lee & Ko
Yulchon
Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year
Gabriela Kennedy –
Taeck Soo Kwon – Bae, Kim & Lee
Choong Jin Oh – Lee & Ko
Xiang Wang –
Jessica Xu – JunHe
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
Lee & Ko
Employment Lawyer of the Year
Cynthia Chung – Deacons
Sang-Hoon Lee – Lee & Ko
Andrea Randall – Gall
Jenny Tsin – WongPartnership
Jennifer Van Dale –
Employment Firm of the Year
Gall
Lee & Ko
WongPartnership
Energy Lawyer of the Year
Linh Doan –
Dong Eun Kim – Lee & Ko
Daniel Reinbott –
Craig Rogers –
Stuart Salt –
Energy Firm of the Year
Lee & Ko
TMT Lawyer of the Year
Luke Grubb –
Gabriela Kennedy –
Mark Parsons –
Kwang Hyun Ryoo – Bae, Kim & Lee
David Wang –
Soon Yub (Samuel) Kwon – Lee & Ko
TMT Firm of the Year
Bae, Kim & Lee
Han Kun Law Offices
Lee & Ko
Private Client Lawyer of the Year
Han (Antonio) Chen – Han Kun Law Offices
Radhika Gaggar – Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Richard Norridge –
Vikna Rajah –
Xiaocheng Wang –
Offshore Law Firm of the Year
Maples and Calder
6 In-house Counsel of Distinction
Sharyn Ch'ang – PwC
Leiming Chen – Ant Financial
Gladys Chun – Lazada
Junghoon Kenneth Oh – LG Display
Yong Kai Wong – CITIC Capital
Jerry Xia – Honeywell
Asian CSR Initiative of the Year
Winner to be revealed on the night
GRAND PRIZES
In-house Legal Department of the Year
Alibaba
Lazada
Intel
LG Chemical
LG Display
MTR Corporation
Telstra
International Law Firm Leader of the Year
William Barron –
Milton Cheng –
Geraint Hughes –
Michael Kim –
Ken Segel –
Patrick Sherrington –
Asian Law Firm Leader of the Year
Melli Darsa – Melli Darsa & Co
Masaki Hosaka –
Sungjin Kim – Bae, Kim & Lee
Lee Eng Beng –
Wang Ling –
Xiao Wei – JunHe
International Law Firm of the Year
Asian Law Firm of the Year
Bae, Kim & Lee
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan