China Law & Practice Awards 2012 - Shortlist revealed
The nominations for this year’s China Law & Practice Awards have been announced. For all deal, team and firm of the year shortlists, please see below.
The law firms listed on each deal are based on preliminary research and submissions. If your firm advised on one of these deals but we do not have you listed, please email David Tring at david.tring@euromoneyasia.com.
The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday September 13 at the Park Hyatt in Beijing.
To reserve your table, please contact Matthew Siu at matthew.siu@euromoneyasia.com or +852 28426937.
FINALISTS
DEALS OF THE YEAR | TEAMS OF THE YEAR | REGIONAL FIRMS | FIRMS OF THE YEAR
DEBT AND 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
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
Shangahi Pharmaceuticals US$1.95 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
BYouku 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
PRIVATE EQUITY
Harbin Electric privatisation
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 privatisation
Latham & Watkins
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Shearman & Sterling
Han Kun Law Offices
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
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 laon facility
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
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 Mineral's Tonkolili iron ore project and the associated acquisition financing
Linklaters
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Yada Williams & Associates
White & Case
OUTBOUND
China Three Gorges Corporation US$3.5billion 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 arrangement for Metorex
Allen & Overy
DLA Piper
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Bright Food's acquisition of Diva Bordeaux
Cleary Gottlieb
DLP Piper
K&M Advocates
IMMMA Advocates
DEALS OF THE YEAR | TEAMS OF THE YEAR | REGIONAL FIRMS | FIRMS OF THE YEAR
CHINA M&A
Fangda Partners
Haiwen & Partners
Jun He Law Offices
King & Wood Mallesons
Zhong Lun Law Firm
INTERNATIONAL M&A
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
CHINA CAPITAL MARKETS
Commerce & Finance Law Offices
Haiwen & Partners
Jingtian & Gongcheng
King & Wood Mallesons
Zhong Yin Law Firm
INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKETS
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Sullivan & Cromwell
CHINA BANKING & FINANCE
Conrad Law Offices
Global Law Office
Jincheng Tongda & Neal
Llinks Law Offices
Run Ming Law Office
INTERNATIONAL BANKING & FINANCE
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Herbert Smith
Hogan Lovells
Linklaters
CHINA PRIVATE EQUITY
Boss & Young
Fangda Partners
Han Kun Law Offices
Llinks Law Offices
MWE China Law Office
INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE EQUITY
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
CHINA PROJECTS, ENERGY & INFRASTRUCTURE
Broad & Bright
Dacheng Law Firm
Grandall Law Firm
Guantao Law Firm
Zhong Lun Law Firm
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS, ENERGY & INFRASTRUCTURE
Baker & McKenzie
Herbert Smith
Hogan Lovells
Shearman & Sterling
Vinson & Elkins
White & Case
DEALS OF THE YEAR | TEAMS OF THE YEAR | REGIONAL FIRMS| FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Chongqing
Exceedon & Partners
Solton & Partners
Zhonghao Law Firm
Guangzhou
Alpha & Leader Law Firm
C&I Partners
Guangda law Firm
Wang Jing & Co
Hangzhou
Capital Equity Legal Group
High Mark Law Firm
Zhejiang T&C Law Firm
Nanjing
JC Master Law Offices
Jiangsu Co-Far Law Firm
Jiangsu Way-To-Justice Law Firm
Jin Ding Partners
Qingdao
Shandong Deheng Law Firm
Qindao Law Firm
Shandong Ya & Tai Law Firm
Wincon Law Firm
Shenzhen
Jing Tian law Firm
Jingtian & Gongcheng
V&T Law Firm
Zhongyin Law Firm
Tianjin
Join & High Law Office
Mingzhou Law Firm
Tianjin Jinjianbaoqi Law Firm
Winners Law Firm
DEALS OF THE YEAR | TEAMS OF THE YEAR | REGIONAL FIRMS | FIRMS OF THE YEAR
China Dispute Resolution
AllBright Law Offices
Boss & Young
Fangda Partners
King & Wood Mallesons
Jun He Law Offices
International Dispute Resolution
Baker & McKenzie
DLA Piper
Herbert Smith
Mayer Brown JSM
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
China Competition
Broad & Bright
Dacheng Law Firm
Jun He Law Offices
King & Wood Mallesons
MWE Law Offices
International Competition
Clifford Chance
DLA Piper
Linklaters
Mayer Brown JSM
Norton Rose
China Labour & Employment
Baohua Law Firm
TransAsia Lawyers
R&P China Lawyers
King & Wood Mallesons
Shanghai HR&L Law Firm
International Labour & Employment
Baker & McKenzie
DLA Piper
Mayer Brown JSM
Paul Hastings
Simmons & Simmons
China Real Estate & Construction
Dacheng Law Firm
AllBright Law Offices
Guantao Law Firm
Jincheng Tongda & Neal Law Firm
Zhong Lun Law Firm
International Real Estate & Construction
Hogan Lovells
Mayer Brown JSM
Morrison & Foerster
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Paul Hastings
China Intellectual Property - Domestic Prosecution
CCPIT
China Patent Agent
King & Wood Mallesons
Liu Shen & Associates
Peksung
Unitalen
China Intellectual Property - Domestic Contenious
China Sinda
Fangda Partners
An Tian Zhang
King & Wood Mallesons
Hylands
Zhongzi Law Office
International Intellectual Property
Baker & McKenzie
Bird & Bird
Jones Day
Hogan Lovells
Ropes & Gray
Rouse
China Shipping & Maritime
Global Law Office
Yao Liang Law Office
Wang Jing & Co
Hai Tong & Partners
Richard Wang & Co
International Shipping & Maritime
Clyde & Co
Holman Fenwick Willan
Ince & Co
Mayer Brown JSM
Norton Rose
China Tax
Hwuason Law Firm
Jun He Law Offices
King & Wood Mallesons
Llinks Law Offices
Zhong Lun Law Firm
MWE Law Offices
International Tax
Baker & McKenzie
Clifford Chance
DLA Piper
O’Melveny & Myers
Salans
White & Case
China TMT
TransAsia Lawyers
Jun He Law Offices
Llinks Law Offices
Fangda Partners
Dacheng Law Firm
International TMT
Baker & McKenzie
Bird & Bird
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith
Hogan Lovells
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Offshore
Maples and Calder
Appleby
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Walkers
Hong Kong
Deacons
Oldham Li & Nie
ONC Lawyers
Tanner De Witt
Wilkinson & Grist
Woo Kwan Lee & Lo
Japan
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Nishimura & Asahi
Korea
Bae Kim & Lee
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Shin & Kim
Taiwan
Chen & Lin
LCS Partners
Lee & Li
Tsar & Tsai
Up-and-coming
Han Kun Law Offices
Broad & Bright Law Firm
Jade & Fountain PRC Lawyers
Jincheng Tongda & Neal Law Firm
PRC FirmDacheng Law Offices
Fangda Partners
Jun He Law Offices
King & Wood Mallesons
Zhong Lun Law Firm
International Firm
Baker & McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Allen & Overy
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
DEALS OF THE YEAR | TEAMS OF THE YEAR | REGIONAL FIRMS | FIRMS OF THE YEAR