Watson, Farley & Williams LLP (WFW), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has acted for Nordea Bank Norge ASA on a US$355m loan facility to Exmar LPG BVBA, a joint venture between Exmar and Teekay.

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Simpson Thacher represented J.P. Morgan Securities plc, as sole bookrunner and sole lead manager, in connection with the offering of US$300 million 2.75% Convertible Bonds due 2018 by Celltrion, Inc. The offering was conducted in reliance upon Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and BNP Paribas Capital (Asia Pacific) Limited in their capacity as placing agents for the top-up placement of 200,000,000 shares in NagaCorp Ltd. for a total consideration of approximately US$154 million.

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented Ayala Land, Inc. (“Ayala Land”) on its US$300 million top-up placement. Ayala Land is the largest real estate conglomerate in the Philippines engaged principally in the planning, development, subdivision and marketing of large-scale communities having a mix of residential, commercial, leisure and other uses.

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented Glorious Property Holdings Limited (“Glorious Property”), a leading PRC property developer based in Shanghai and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, in its issuance of additional senior notes (“Additional Notes”) in the aggregate principle amount of US$150 million, due 2018, which will be consolidated and form a single series with the US$250 million senior notes issued on March 4, 2013.

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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised ASM International N.V. (“ASM International“), a leading global supplier of semiconductor equipment and ranked among the top 10 semiconductor equipment manufacturers globally, as its Hong Kong and US counsel on its €422 million (HK$4.3 billion) partial secondary placement of shares of its subsidiary, ASM Pacific Technology Ltd. (“ASM PT“).

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DLA Piper today announces the appointment of Ed Sheremeta to the role of partner with the firm’s Real Estate practice in Hong Kong. Ed joins from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom where he was the Head of the Asia Real Estate group. Ed also served for a period as Vice President on the commercial real estate lending team at Morgan Stanley Japan in Tokyo.

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The Firm recently represented the underwriters led by Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC in connection with a follow-on offering of American depositary shares of Vipshop Holdings Limited (“Vipshop”). The offering by Vipshop and certain selling shareholders of an aggregate of 8,280,000 American depositary shares (including 1,080,000 American depositary shares pursuant to the underwriters’ exercise of the over-allotment option), representing 16,560,000 ordinary shares, raised an aggregate of approximately US$200 million.

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Appleby acted as Cayman counsel for Xinchen China Power Holdings Limited in relation to its listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with proceeds of approximately HK$878 million.

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Leading international law firm Clifford Chance announced today that Alastair C. MacAulay will join its Hong Kong office as a partner to lead on maritime and offshore finance matters.

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