Maples and Calder

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Shihui Partners have advised China’s leading logistics provider JD Logistics on its $3.2 billion IPO in Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Han Kun Law Offices advising the joint underwriters.

Fangda Partners and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have advised Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on its $11.3 billion secondary listing in Hong Kong, with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and King & Wood Mallesons advising the joint sponsors and underwriters.

Offshore law firm Walkers has added James Gaden as partner to its Corporate and Investment Funds Group in Hong Kong office from rival Maples and Calder.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has advised Yixin Group, China’s largest online car retailer, on its $867 million initial public offering in Hong Kong, with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer acting as legal adviser to the joint sponsors and underwriters.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has advised China Literature, the e-publishing arm of Chinese tech giant Tencent, on its initial public offering in Hong Kong that is anticipated to raise as much as $800 million.

Latham & Watkins has advised Nord Anglia Education on its go-private deal with a consortium led by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Baring Private Equity Asia, which owns 67 percent of the Hong Kong-based operator of international schools.

Future Land issues $250 million of senior notes, KKR takes a majority stake in Avendus Capital, and more in this week's Southeast Asia Deals table.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is acting for HKBN Ltd, Hong Kong’s second-largest broadband Internet provider, on its $750 million IPO.

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