IFLR Asia Awards 2017: shortlist revealed

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IFLR Asia Awards 2017: shortlist revealed

The nominations for the ceremony, taking place in Hong Kong on March 2, are now live

The nominations for the 2017 IFLR Asia Awards have been announced. For all the deal and team of the year shortlists, please see below.

The IFLR Asia Awards celebrate legally innovative teams and deals in the Asia-Pacific region, and will be held on March 2 at the Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong.

The National Law Firms of the Year and Pro Bono Firm of the Year 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 e-mail james.wilson@legalmediagroup.com

To reserve your table, please e-mail Andrew Tappin at ATappin@euromoneyplc.com or +44 (0) 20 7779 8661


DEALS OF THE YEAR


Debt & equity-linked

Bank of China international green bonds

Clifford Chance

Jingtian & Gongcheng

JunZeJun Law Offices

Linklaters

China Yangtze Power dual currency exchangeable bonds

Beijing Dentons Law Offices

Clifford Chance

Linklaters

Tian Yuan Law Firm

China Railway Construction convertible bonds

Clifford Chance

Davis Polk & Wardwell

DeHeng Law Offices

Fangda Partners

China's London listed RMB bond

Fangda Partners

Herbert Smith Freehills

Linklaters

HDFC rupee-denominated debt issuance

AZB & Partners

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Mizuho Financial Group notes offering

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

NTCP Green Masala bond

Allen & Overy

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Tiwi MakBan project bond

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

Picazo Buyco Tan Fider & Santos

SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan


Equity

BOC Aviation IPO

Allen & Gledhill

Allen & Overy

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

King & Wood Mallesons

Linklaters

China Resources Pharmaceutical IPO

Clifford Chance

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Jia Yuan Law Offices

King & Wood Mallesons

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company IPO

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Davis Polk & Wardwell

S&R Associates

Kyushu Railway Company IPO

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Sullivan & Cromwell

Line Corporation IPO

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Nishimura & Asahi

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Manulife US REIT's IPO

Allen & Gledhill

Allen & Overy

Shook Lin & Bok

Postal Savings Bank of China Hong Kong IPO

Clifford Chance

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Haiwen & Partners

King & Wood Mallesons



High yield

Biostime International Holdings

Clifford Chance

Fangda Partners

Linklaters

Ogier

Walkers

Zhong Lun Law Firm

Cikarang Listrindo

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Shearman & Sterling

Delhi International Airport

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Krishnamurthy & Co

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy

Shearman & Sterling

Greenko high yield green bond

Appleby

Ashurst

Bedell Cristin

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Mayer Brown JSM

Shearman & Sterling

Talwar Thakore & Associates

Hsin Chong Construction

Conyers Dill & Pearman

Jun He Law Office

Simmons & Simmons

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Jiangsu NewheadLine

Conyers Dill & Pearman

Jingtian & Gongcheng

King & Wood Mallesons

Mayer Brown JSM

Studio City

Ashurst

Kirkland & Ellis

Harneys

Henrique Saldanha A&N

Manuela António

Maples and Calder

White & Case


M&A

Alibaba Group/Lazada Group

Dechert

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Morgan Lewis Stamford

Noerr

Stibbe

SSEK

Sullivan & Cromwell

Weerawong C&P

China Resources Beer/SABMiller

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Fangda Partners

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Sullivan & Cromwell

Walkers

Chubu Electric-TEPCO joint-venture

Allen & Overy

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Ashurst

Baker McKenzie

Morrison & Foerster

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Nishimura & Asahi

Norton Rose Fulbright

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Tsujimaki Law Offices

White & Case

Didi Chuxing/Uber China

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Fangda Partners

Han Kun Law Offices

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Walkers

Foxconn/Sharp

Baker McKenzie

Nishimura & Asahi

Phoenix Healthcare Group/CR Healthcare

Reed Smith Richards Butler

Shearman & Sterling

TCC Group/Groupe Casino

Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier

Linklaters

Weerawong C&P

Tsinghua Unigroup/Hewlett-Packard Corporation

Allen & Overy

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Zhong Lun Law Firm



Private equity

Au Financiers secondary share sale

AZB Partners

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Jyoti Sagar Associates

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas

Baring and Glenwood/Lafarge Halla

Kim & Chang

Linklaters

White & Case

Yulchon

Baring/Interplex Holdings

Allen & Gledhill

Drew & Napier

Walkers

Weil Gotshal & Manges

Wong Partnership

Carlyle sale of New Century REIT

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft

Clifford Chance

Carlyle sale of Ta Chong Bank

Baker & McKenzie

Lee & Li

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison

CVC/Nirvana privatisation

Clifford Chance

Conyers Dill & Pearman

Mourant Ozannes

Sullivan & Cromwell

Walkers

Jiu Ding Capital/Modern Metal Precision Die Casting

Baker McKenzie

Sidley Austin

Zhong Lun Law Firm

MBK Partners and TPG acquisition of Wharf's telecom unit

Clifford Chance

Deacons

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Walkers



Project finance

Central Java IPP financing

Ali Budiarjo Nugroho Reksodiputro

Hendra Soenardi

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy

Mochtar Karuwin & Komar

Shearman & Sterling

Light Rail Manila Corporation's LRT project

Abuda Asis & Associates

Nabarro

Pinsent Masons

Shearman & Sterling

SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan

Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine

Farara Kerins

Kaufhold Ossola & Associates

Lackowicz & Hoffman

LehmanLaw Mongolia

Loyens & Loeff

MahoneyLiotta

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy

Shearman & Sterling

Sullivan & Cromwell

VanDoorne

VanEps Kunneman

Tangguh 3 LNG project

Allen & Overy

Ali Budiardjo Nugroho Reksodiputro

Ginting & Reksodiputro

Latham & Watkins

Linklaters

Widyawan & Partners

Tengizchevroil upstream expansion

Latham & Watkins

Sullivan & Cromwell

Thar Coal Mine and IPP financing

Anjarwalla Collins and Haidermota

Haidermota BNR & Co

Lincoln's Law Chamber

Linklaters

Moshin Tayebaly & Co

Pinsent Masons

RIAA Barker Gillette

Vellani & Vellani

Zhong Lun Law Firm

VICT Webb Dock container terminal

Allen & Overy

Allens

Linklaters

Zonergy's Quaid-i-Azam solar park

DeHeng Law Offices

Mohsin Tayebaly & Co

Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co



Restructuring

AusGroup restructuring

Allen & Gledhill

Ashurst

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy

Morgan Lewis

Murcia Pestell Hillard

CIT Aerospace – Skymark restructuring

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Nishimura & Partners

White & Case

Hyundai Merchant Marine

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Ince & Co

Kim & Chang

Lee & Ko

Shin & Kim

Yulchon

Kaisa Group restructuring

Harneys

Kirkland & Ellis

Mayer Brown JSM

O'Melveny & Myers

Mourant Ozannes

Ropes & Gray

Tanner de Witt

Walkers

Pacific Andes Resources Development restructuring

Advocatus Law

Appleby

Cavenagh Law

DLA Piper

Drew & Napier

Forbes Hare

Jingtian & Gongcheng

Harney Westwood & Riegels

Kelley Drye & Warren

Lowenstein Sandler

Luskin Stern & Eisler

Mayer Brown JSM

Meyer Suozzi English & Klein

Rajah & Tann

Sidley Austin

Tan Rajah & Cheah

TSMP Law Corporation

White & Case

Wong Partnership



Structured finance and securitisation

Bank of China green covered notes

Clifford Chance

Jingtian & Gongcheng

JunZeJun Law Offices

King & Wood Mallesons

Linklaters

ISDA Japan WGMR Project

Linklaters

Leveraged FCNR structuring

Juris Corp

Lotte Capital lease receivables securitisation

Jones Day

Kim & Chang

Lee & Ko

Pepper residential securities

Chapman and Cutler

Clayton Utz

King & Wood Mallesons

Mayer Brown JSM

Minter Ellison

Sidley Austin

Profit Reach international facility

Clifford Chance

King & Wood Mallesons

Ogier

White & Case



LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR

Debt & equity-linked

Allen & Overy

Clifford Chance

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Herbert Smith Freehills

Linklaters

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Equity

Allen & Overy

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Clifford Chance

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Linklaters

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Sullivan & Cromwell

High yield

Ashurst

Clifford Chance

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Linklaters

Mayer Brown JSM

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy

Shearman & Sterling

White & Case

M&A

Allen & Overy

Baker McKenzie

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Linklaters

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Sullivan & Cromwell

Private equity

Clifford Chance

Linklaters

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison

Sidley Austin

Weil Gotshal & Manges

White & Case

Project finance

Allen & Overy

Latham & Watkins

Linklaters

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy

Pinsent Masons

Shearman & Sterling

Sullivan & Cromwell

Restructuring

Drew & Napier

Hogan Lovells

Kirkland & Ellis

Mayer Brown JSM

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy

Morgan Lewis

Ropes & Gray

White & Case

Wong Partnership

Structured finance and securitisation

Clifford Chance

Jones Day

Kim & Chang

King & Wood Mallesons

Lee & Ko

Linklaters

White & Case

Regional firm of the year

Allen & Gledhill

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

AZB & Partners

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Fangda Partners

Kim & Chang

King & Wood Mallesons

Nishimura & Asahi

Zhong Lun Law Firm

Financial services regulatory

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Deacons

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Herbert Smith Freehills

Linklaters

Offshore firm of the year

Appleby

Bedell Cristin

Conyers Dill & Pearman

Harneys

Maples and Calder

Ogier

Walkers

China practice of the year

Allen & Overy

Clifford Chance

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Linklaters

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Sullivan & Cromwell

US law firm of the year

Baker McKenzie

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy

Shearman & Sterling

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Sullivan & Cromwell

White & Case

International law firm of the year

Allen & Overy

Clifford Chance

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Linklaters

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy

Shearman & Sterling

Sullivan & Cromwell

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