Herbert Smith Freehills has advised the joint bookrunners and lead managers on the S$350 million fixed rate bond offering by TML Holdings Pte. Ltd., the Singapore incorporated wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Motors and the holding company of Jaguar Land Rover PLC. This offering represented the first bond offering by the Tata Motors group on the Singapore Stock Exchange and the largest ever unrated Singapore dollar bond by an Indian corporate.

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Stamford Law bulks up its market-leading practice with the addition of Mr. Lim Sin Teck to its corporate practice.

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Norton Rose advised Standard Chartered Bank as coordinating bank and other lenders on the USD1.85 billion bridge financing to SapuraKencana Drilling Pte. Ltd. as part of the USD2.9 billion acquisition comprising of both debt and equity elements by SapuraKencana of the Seadrill tender rig business involving 18 offshore rigs in total.

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Ashurst has advised Asian Development Bank (“ADB”) and The Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited (“SCB”) as lenders to two solar power projects in Thailand financed on a limited recourse project finance basis. The financing closed on 11 April 2013.

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Stamford Law builds on its strength as a leading regional player with the addition of Mr. Daniel Yong to its top-tier corporate practice.

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Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP (“WFW”), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has advised SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad (“SapuraKencana”), a major oil & gas services company headquartered in Malaysia, on the debt and equity financing of its acquisition of the entire issued share capital in Seadrill Tender Rig Ltd (“Seadrill”) and certain other related businesses and assets. The acquisition included purchasing 18 tender drilling rigs from Seadrill (6 semi-tenders, 9 tender barges and 3 newbuilds.

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International law firm Simmons & Simmons has announced that it is opening an office in Singapore. It will be the firm’s fifth office in Asia, after Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo.

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Sidley Austin LLP has announced that Gregory Salathé joined the firm as a partner earlier this week. He is a member of the firm’s M&A practice and will reside in its Singapore office after a transition period in Tokyo.

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The Singapore office of Watson, Farley & Williams (“WFW”), a leading international law firm, along with its Singapore law capability Asia Practice LLP, is pleased to announce that it has, in conjunction with Asia Practice LLP, advised the Reignwood Group on the acquisition of the entire share and loan capital of Sardinia Properties Pte Ltd (the “Target”).

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Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised Australia’s Toga Group on a 50:50 joint venture in hotel management and ownership with Singapore’s Far East Orchard Limited.

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