The nominations for this year’s IFLR Asia awards have been announced. For all the deal and team of the year shortlists, please see below. National law firm of the year award winners will be announced on the night.
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 Lucy McNulty at lucy.mcnulty@euromoneyasia.com
The awards ceremony will take place on February 23 in Hong Kong.
To reserve your table please email Simon King at simon.king@euromoneyasia.com or +852 2842 6936.
DEBT & EQUITY LINKED DEAL OF THE YEAR
Danga Capital sukuk
Kadir Andri & Partners
Linklaters
Zaid Ibrahim & Co
ICBC (Asia) offshore Renminbi capital issue
Allen & Overy
Linklaters
Baosteel Group offshore Renminbi bond issuance
Allen & Overy,
Fangda Partners
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Linklaters
Cheung Kong Bond Securities
Allen & Gledhill
Baker & McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Maples and Calder
Hoang Anh Gia Lai joint stock company high yield bonds
DFDL Mekong
Latham & Watkins
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Vietnam International Law Firm
Vilaf
YKVN
Thailand inflation-linked bond
Baker & McKenzie
Lotte Shopping dual-currency convertible bond
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker
Shook Lin & Bok
Yulchon
EQUITY DEAL OF THE YEAR
Prada IPO
Bonelli Erede Pappalardo
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fangda Partners
Slaughter and May
Hutchison Port Business IPO
Allen & Overy
Allen & Gledhill
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Jun He Law Offices
King & Wood
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Hui Xian Reit IPO
Baker & McKenzie
Commerce and Finance Law Offices
Guantao Law Firm
Linklaters
Maples and Calder
Wilkinson & Grist
Woo Kwan Lee & Lo
Sun Art IPO
DLA Piper
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith
Jun He Law Offices
King and Wood
Lee and Li
Proskauer Rose
White & Case
SBI Holdings’ Hong Kong Depository Receipts offering
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Nishimura & Asahi
Paul Hastings
Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom
SECURITISATION AND STRUCTURED FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR
TORRENS Series 2011-1(E) Trust
Allen & Overy
Blake Dawson
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
CapitaLand refinancing
Allen & Gledhill
WongPartnership
Korea Airlines ticket receivables
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
O’ Melveny & Myers
Richards Layton & Finger
Walkers
Sarawak / Equisar International notes
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Chooi & Company
Shearn Delamore & Co
Linklaters
ING funding for Hyundai Card
Ashurst
Kim & Chang
Linklaters
Shin & Kim
Walkers
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR
Tongjitang Chinese Medical
Baker & McKenzie
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Hogan Lovells
Shearman & Sterling
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Thorp Alberga
Walkers
CAIGA/Cirrus Industries
Dewey & LeBeouf
King & Spalding
BP/Reliance
Allen & Overy
AZB & Partners
Linklaters
Talwar Thakore & Associates
Vinson & Elkins
Vedanta/Cairn India
Allen & Overy
AZB & Partners
Linklaters
Latham & Watkins
Talwar Thakore and Associates
Maybank/Kim Eng
Allen & Gledhill
Chandler & Thong-ek
Shook Lin & Bok
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Walkers
WongPartnership
PRIVATE EQUITY DEAL OF THE YEAR
Saban - PT Media Nusantara Citra Tbk Pipe
Latham & Watkins
Melli Darsa & Co
O’Melveny & Myers
Affinity Equity Partners - Tegel Foods
Allen & Overy
Buddle Findlay
Chapman Tripp
Freehills
Minter Ellison
Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
Russell McVeagh
TPG/Northstar - BFI Finance Indonesia
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Makes & Partners
Melli Darsa & Co
TPG, Shriram - Vishal Retail
AZB & Partners
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Kochar & Co
Trilegal Partners
Zeus Law Associates
Hyva Holdings - Unitas Capital
Allen & Overy
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Herbert Smith
Houthoff Buruma
Linklaters
Weil Gotshal
CVC - Hung Hing Printing
Ashurst
Clifford Chance
Oh-Ebashi
RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR
PT Mobile-8 Telecom notes restructuring
Clifford Chance
O’Melveny & Myers
Alinta deleveraging
Allens Arthurs Robinson
Baker & McKenzie
Freehills
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
Centro Properties
Allens Arthur Robinson
Arnold Bloch Leibler
Bracewell & Giuliani
Clayton Utz
Freehills
Gilbert & Tobin
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Wanhua / BorsodChem
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Kirkland & Ellis
Shearman & Sterling
WongPartnership
Lehman Brothers minibonds
Allen & Overy
Chadbourne & Parke
Hogan Lovells
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
WongPartnership
PROJECT FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR
Mong Duong 2 BOT Power Plant project financing
Bae Kim & Lee
Haiwen Law Firm
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Latham & Watkins
Loyens & Loeff
Little & Co
Lee & Ko
NautaDutilh
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker
Richards, Layton & Finger
Shearman & Sterling
YKVN
Yulchon
Financing of Jurong Aromatics
Al Tamimi & Company
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Overy
Baker & McKenzie
Bae Kim & Lee
C&A Law
Inca Law
Latham & Watkins
Lee & Lee
Norton Rose
Maples & Calder
Morris Nichols
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law
Run Ming
Rajah & Tann
Rodyk & Davidson
Wong & Leow
Solomon Harris
Yuan Wen Shanghai Law
WongPartnership
Islamic financing for PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler
Clifford Chance
HHP
Mochtar Karuwin Komar
Norton Rose
White & Case
Wiriadinata & Saleh
Project Baha Mar
Allen & Overy
Graham Thompson
Higgs & Johnson
Lennox Paton
Linklaters
Proskauer Rose
Shearman & Sterling
Wachtell Lipton Rosen and Katz
Project financing for Jhajjar
Amarchand Mangaldas
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
TEAMS OF THE YEAR
Debt and equity-linked
Allen & Overy
Baker & McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Linklaters
Equity
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith
Linklaters
Securitisation and structured finance
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
O’Melveny & Myers
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
M&A
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Private equity
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Linklaters
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Restructuring
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Hogan Lovells
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
Project finance
Allen & Overy
Hogan Lovells
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Latham & Watkins
Shearman & Sterling
Offshore team of the year
Appleby
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Maples and Calder
Walkers
Regional law firms of the year
Allen & Gledhill
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Kim & Chang
King & Wood
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
China practice of the year
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith
Linklaters
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Most innovative US law firm of the year
Cleary Gottleib Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Latham & Watkins
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Shearman & Sterling
In-house debt and equity-linked team of the year
JP Morgan
HSBC
Citi
Deutsche Bank
Credit Suisse
In-house equity team of the year
Citi
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
HSBC
Morgan Stanley
Pro bono law firm
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Overy
Hogan Lovells
Lee & Li
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
International law firm of the year
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Linklaters
Shearman & Sterling