Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for van Laack GmbH in its acquisition of Australian-owned clothier Herringbone. The company will now have ownership of the brand and retail outlets of the shirt and suit retailer, after Herringbone was placed into voluntary administration in December 2008. The team was led by partner Steve Clifford. Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co acted as legal advisors to Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd in its acquisition of 76 percent shareholding of Apollo Sindhoori Capital Investments Ltd. 56 percent of the shareholding was acquired from the promoter group, with the remaining 20 percent being acquired through an open offer made to the public shareholders. Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co acted as transaction counsel to Reliance Petroleum Ltd and Reliance Industries Ltd in the merger of Reliance Petroleum into Reliance Industries. The transaction marks the largest ever merger in India and is being consummated by way of a court sanctioned scheme of amalgamation. Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co has advised Sodexo in relation to its acquisition of Radhakrishna Hospitality Services Ltd and its subsidiaries. Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. Baker & McKenzie has advised IBA Health on the company’s A$124 million rights offer. The offer comprised an underwritten accelerated institutional offer and a separate retail offer. Steven Glanz, partner in the firm’s Sydney office, led the legal team. Clifford Chance has advised Citigroup Global Markets Singapore Pte Ltd and Macquarie Capital Securities (Singapore) Pte Ltd as placing agents on the Section 4(2) private placement of new units in Singapore-listed Ascendas Real...

Allen & Gledhill LLP advised the joint lead managers and joint underwriters for the rights issues by CapitaLand Ltd and CapitaMall Trust (CMT) and also separately advised Temasek, as holders of a direct interest in CapitalLand and the CMT manager. Partners Tan Tze Gay and Leonard Ching led the team advising the joint lead managers and joint underwriters for the CapitaLand rights issue, Lim Mei, Hilary Low and Christopher Koh the group advising Temasek, while partners Jerry Koh and Chua Bor Jern led on the CMT rights issue and the CMT manager. AZB & Partners represented Nippon Express Co Ltd in its acquisition of an additional 30 percent stake in its Indian subsidiary Nippon Express India Private Ltd from R Jayakumar. Sai Krishna Bharathan was lead partner on the transaction. AZB & Partners represented TATA Teleservices Ltd in its divestment of up to 49 percent stake in Wireless TT Info Services Ltd by way of the sale of its equity shares in the company and the demerger of the passive telecom infrastructure business of Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Ltd into Wireless by way of a Court approved scheme of demerger. Abhijit Joshi led the advisory team on this transaction, in which the firm was involved in drafting of the transaction documents including scheme of demerger, share purchase agreements, demerger cooperation agreement and shareholders agreement. Baker & McKenzie has advised consortium Japan Uranium Management Inc on its investment in Uranium One, a Canadian-listed producer and marketer of uranium. The group has agreed to subscribe to a new share issue of 117 million shares in Uranium One, a holding of about 19.95...

Allens Arthur Robinson has advised ANZ Infrastructure Services Ltd in the recent acquisition by the Energy Infrastructure Trust of Babcock & Brown Power Ltd’s interest in the Neerabup Power Station. Executive partner Paul Quinn and partner Anna Collyer led the transaction. Allens Arthur Robinson acted as the lead legal adviser to Rio Tinto in the negotiation and agreement of their major strategic alliance transaction with Aluminum Corp of China. The transaction will be made up of investment joint ventures in respect of certain individual Rio Tinto assets, as well as the issue of convertible bonds at parent company level, delivering a total investment by Chinalco of US$19.5 billion. The firm advised across the full range of legal disciplines, covering corporate, resources, M&A, tax and regulatory matter, with commercial/resources partners Nic Tolé and Scott Langford leading the team. Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for Shell in acquisitions from, and a joint venture deal with, Arrow Energy Ltd. The deal sees Shell acquire 30 per cent of Arrow’s Australian upstream tenements and 10 percent of their international operations for up to a total of around US$700 million. A joint venture arrangement between Shell and Arrow for the exploration and development of coal seam gas assets in Australia and overseas also formed part of the transaction. Brisbane-based partners Chelsey Evans and Andrew Knox led a team from Australia and Asia on the deal. Azmi & Associates has advised Lhoist Group on the acquisition of its first operation of extraction of calcium carbonate site in Malaysia which involved direct acquisition of private lands and structured acquisition of state mining lands in the state...

AGZI LCT Law Firm have advised the Thu Thiem New Urban Area Authority in its first build-operate project, valued at approximately US$120 million. Under the terms of the contract, a Korean construction investor will design and develop an infrastructure area and relocate apartments in exchange for other land plots. Le Net and Nguyen Xuan Thuy acted as lead lawyers for the Authority. Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for ACCIONA Agua in assisting the company’s successful bid for Adelaide’s A$1.4 billion desalination plant contract. Melbourne-based partner Emma Warren led the team on the deal, advising the client on contractual documents covering design and construction, operations and maintenance. Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for Hutchison in the merger of its Australian telecommunications business with Vodafone creating a 50:50 joint venture, VHA Pty Ltd. The firm advised on the complete transaction, having a key role across three streams: corporate, integration strategy and competition. Corporate was led by partners Victoria Poole and Andrew Finch, the integration strategy team was led by partner Peter James, with Fiona Crosbie heading up the competition team. Allens Arthur Robinson has advised the Thailand Government on its new public private partnership framework aimed at providing funding for major infrastructure projects across the country. The new framework relates to projects valued in excess of 1 billion Thai baht. Sydney-based projects partner Leighton O’Brien led the team advising the Government, liaising with partner Marcus Clarke in Bangkok. Allen & Overy has advised Bank of Ayudhya PCL, Thailand’s fifth-largest bank, on its acquisition of 99.5 percent shares and 100 percent shares in AIG Retail Bank and AIG Card respectively. The deal...

AGZI LCT Law Firm has advised Bitexco Corp on a private powerplant project in Nho Que, Ha Giang Province, with investment capital of over US$130 million. Dr Le Net and Chau Huy Quang acted as lead lawyers on the deal. Allen & Gledhill LLP advised the joint arrangers and the co-trustee in the Islamic trust certificate issuance programme established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The S$200 million certificate represents the first such sukuk established by a statutory board in Singapore and the first local currency sukuk to be established by a central bank of a non-Muslim majority jurisdiction. Yeo Wico led the team of counsel on this transaction. Allen & Gledhill LLP have advised DBS and Temasek in a two for one rights issue valued at approximately S$4 billion. Under the terms of the offer, Temasek and a subsidiary will subscribe for their respective 27.6 percent holding in DBS entitlements in full. Temasek has also entered into a sub-underwriting agreement with the underwriters pursuant to the issuance. Partner Prawiro Widjaja led the team advising DBS, while partner Lim Mei led those advising Temasek. The listing represents Singapore’s largest ever capital markets transaction. Atsumi & Partners advised ProLogis on the sale of its interests in its three Japan funds to affiliates of GIC Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of Government of Singapore Investment Corp. Partner Daniel C Hounslow led the advisory team on the transaction, the total value of which was US$1.3 billion. AZB & Partners advised Bridgestone Corp Japan on its proposed acquisition of 51 percent of the shareholding of NS Antivibration Products Private Ltd. The...