Leading international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised Japanese mobile and ADSL telecom provider eAccess on its purchase by Japanese mobile and Internet carrier Softbank Corp. for $2.3 billion. The deal was signed today.

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Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, UBS AG, Hong Kong Branch as underwriters in connection with a Schedule B debt offering by Korea Finance Corporation of $300 million in aggregate principal amount of its 2.25% notes due 2017. The notes are consolidated and form a single class of notes with the $500 million aggregate principal amount of 2.25% notes due 2017 issued on August 7, 2012.

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DLA Piper has advised APG Asset Management on its US$130 million investment in the hotel assets of Lemon Tree Hotel Holdings Limited (“Lemon Tree”), one of India’s largest mid-market and upscale hotel developers and operators.

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Goodwin Procter advised long-term client TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, on its recently completed buyout of SpeedCast Ltd., a global network and satellite communications service provider, from Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd.

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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the eight banks underwriting a US$1 billion bank facility to Alibaba Group Holding, China’s biggest e-commerce company, as part of a US$5.7 billion financing package to fund the repurchase of half of Yahoo’s 40% stake in the company. The banks include Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Barclays Bank PLC, Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited, Credit Suisse AG, Singapore Branch, DBS Bank Ltd., Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore Branch, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. and Morgan Stanley Asia Limited.

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International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Alibaba Group, the largest e-commerce company in China, on the financing of a major repurchase of shares from Yahoo! and on the restructuring of its relationship with Yahoo! in transactions valued at approximately US$7.6 billion.

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Mayer Brown JSM today announced that it has advised Trade and Development Bank of Mongolia LLC (TDB) on its recent issuance of US$300 million senior notes due 2015.

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Goodwin Procter advised client DST Global on its recent follow-on investment in the Alibaba Group to help finance Alibaba’s repurchase of shares from Yahoo! and restructure its relationship with the Silicon Valley company.  The $7.6 billion raised by Alibaba was the largest ever private financing for a private sector Chinese company and the largest non-LBO financing for a technology company globally.  The new equity financing for Alibaba was completed at a valuation of approximately $40 billion. More >>

Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, KDB Asia Limited, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc as underwriters in connection with a Schedule B debt offering by The Korea Development Bank of $750 million in aggregate principal amount of its 3% notes due 2022.

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International law firm Simmons & Simmons has advised ONGC Videsh Ltd on the acquisition of a 2.72 percent interest in the Azeri, Chirag and Guneshli Fields (ACG) in Azerbaijan, one of the largest oil producing fields in the world, and a 2.36 percent interest in the associated BTC pipeline.

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