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Deal Awards
M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia
Gotion High-Tech’s $1.3B Strategic Cooperation with Volkswagen China
King & Wood Mallesons
Itochu’s $5.6B Acquisition of FamilyMart
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Nakamura, Tsunoda & Matsumoto
Nishimura & Asahi
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Korean Air’s’ $1.6B Takeover of Asiana Airlines
Kim & Chang
Shin & Kim
Yoon & Yang
NTT Docomo’s $40B Take-Private
Hibiya Sogo Law Offices
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Nakamura, Tsunoda & Matsumoto
Nishimura & Asahi
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Shearman & Sterling
Prudential Financial’s $1.9B Sale of Prudential Life Insurance Korea
Debevoise & Plimpton
Kim & Chang
Yulchon
Sina’s $2.6B Take-Private
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Kirkland & Ellis
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
M&A Deal of the Year: South & Southeast Asia
Aviva Singapore’s $2B Combination with SingLife
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Latham & Watkins
Norton Rose Fulbright
Slaughter & May
TSMP Law Corp.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Bangkok Bank’s $2.3B Acquisition of Bank Permata
Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners
Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung
Linklaters
White & Case
Kimberly-Clark’s $1.2B Acquisition of Softex Indonesia
Allen & Gledhill
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Makarim & Taira S.
Maples & Calder
Soemadipradja & Taher
KKR’s $622M Investment in J.B. Chemicals
Platinum Partners
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Reliance Retail’s $3.3B Acquisition of Future Group’s Retail Assets
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Khaitan & Co
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Tesco’s $10.6B sale of Thailand and Malaysia Businesses
Adnan Sundra & Low
Allen & Overy
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Rahmat Lim & Partners
Finance Deal of the Year: Acquisitions
58.com’s $3.5B Leveraged Financing for Take-Private
Conyers
Fangda Partners
Harneys
JunHe
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
Maples and Calder
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Blackstone’s Financing for $2.3B Acquisition of Takeda Consumer Healthcare
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
CP Group’s Financing for $10.6B Acquisition of Tesco's Southeast Asian Business
Clifford Chance
Norton Rose Fulbright
Macquarie’s $1.4B Financing for Acquisition of Daesung Industrial Gases
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Standard Chartered Bank’s $339M Facilities for Aviva-SingLife Merger
Baker McKenzie
Latham & Watkins
Finance Deal of the Year: Insolvency and Restructuring
Duniatex Group’s $2.6B Debt Restructuring
Aji Wijaya & Co
Baker McKenzie
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners
IL&FS Group’s $13.5B Debt Resolution
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Jiangsu Akcome’s $1.85B Bankruptcy Restructuring
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Tiger Resources’ $271M Scheme of Arrangement
King & Wood Mallesons
Slaughter & May
Xihe Group’s $3.85B Restructuring
Allen & Gledhill
WongPartnership
Finance Deal of the Year: Projects
Changfang and Xidao Offshore Wind Project’s $3B Financing
Baker McKenzie
Lee & Li
Linklaters
Watson Farley & Williams
White & Case
Nam Kong 1 Power Co.’s $230M Financing for Hydropower Station Project
King & Wood Mallesons
Meghnaghat II Gas-Fired Power Project’s $642M Financing and Development
Baker McKenzie
Farooq & Associates
Sidrap I Windfarm’s $115M Refinancing
Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
Baker McKenzie
Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners
Shearman & Sterling
Udenna Corp.’s $300M Financing for Acquisition of Malampaya Gas Field Interest
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Milbank
Picazo Law
Villaraz & Angangco
Securities Deal of the Year: Debt
Indonesia’s $4.3B COVID Relief Bond
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Ginting & Reksodiputro
Hadipuranto, Hadinoto & Partners
Korea’s $1.4B Foreign Exchange Equalization Bonds
Bae, Kim & Lee
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Lee & Ko
Manila Water Company’s $500M Sustainability Bond
Dechert
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Mongolia’s $600M Sovereign Bond for Sustainable Development
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
DB>S
Dorsey & Whitney
Mayer Brown
Melville Erdenedalai
Tencent Music’s $800M Debut SEC-Registered Notes
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Han Kun Law Offices
Latham & Watkins
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Securities Deal of the Year: Equity
AREIT’s $253M IPO in the Philippines
Allen & Overy
Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz
Dechert
Latham & Watkins
Picazo Buyco Tan Fider & Santos Law Offices
Big Hit Entertainment’s $820M IPO on Korea Exchange
Bae, Kim & Lee
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Greenberg Traurig
Kim & Chang
China Pacific Insurance’s $2B Listing on London Stock Exchange
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
JD.com’s $4.3B Hong Kong Secondary Listing
Clifford Chance
Han Kun Law Offices
Shihui Partners
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Ninebot’s $290M CDR Listing on STAR Market
Zhong Lun Law Firm
SembCorp Marine’s $1.57B Renounceable Rights Issue
Allen & Gledhill
Clifford Chance
TSMP Law Corp.
WongPartnership
Private Equity Deal of the Year
Affinity Equity Partners and Baring’s $1B Investment in Shinhan Financial Group
Bae, Kim & Lee
Shin & Kim
Yulchon
Bain Capital’s $1.2B Leveraged Tender Offer for Nichiigakkan
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners
Ropes & Gray
White & Case
Carlyle’s $490M Acquisition of 20% in Piramal Pharma
AZB & Partners
Covington & Burling
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
White & Case
China Biologic Products’ $4.76B Take-Private
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fangda Partners
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham Watkins
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
KKR and Rakuten’s $1.6B Acquisition of Seiyu Stakes
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Nishimura & Asahi
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Macquarie-Led Consortium's $2.3B Acquisition of 88% of AirTrunk
Baker McKenzie
DLA Piper
Gilbert + Tobin
Hogan Lovells
King & Wood Mallesons
Norton Rose Fulbright
TMT Deal of the Year
Huya and DouYu’s $6B Merger
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Haiwen & Partners
Han Kun Law Offices
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Walkers
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Establishment of China Unified Broadcasting Network
Fangda Partners
Shu Jin Law Firm
Jio PLatforms’ $20B Fundraising
AZB & Partners
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Kirkland & Ellis
Nishith Desai Associates
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
SK Broadband’s $840M Acquisition of T-Broad
Bae, Kim & Lee
Lee & Ko
Yulchon
T-Map Mobility’s $910M Establishment and Joint Venture with Uber
Bae, Kim & Lee
Herbert Smith Freehills
KL Partners
Shin & Kim
Toyota and NTT’s $3.66B Smart City Platform Collaborations
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Individual Awards
IPO Lawyer of the Year
- Benjamin Carale, Latham & Watkins
- Christopher Wong, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
- King Wang Li, Tian Yuan Law Firm
- Grace Lai, Drew & Napier
- Myoung Jae Chung, Kim & Chang
- Paloma Wang, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Private Equity Lawyer of the Year
- Ian Ho, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
- Je Won Lee, Lee & Ko
- Jiangshan Tang, Haiwen & Partners
- Sidharth Bhasin, Shearman & Sterling
- Tsuyoshi Imai, Ropes & Gray
Energy and Infrastructure Lawyer of the Year
- Bill Yu, JunHe
- Hun Ko, Lee & Ko
- Martin David, Baker McKenzie
- Nick Kouvaritakis, Mayer Brown
- Tomohiro Sato, Nishimura & Asahi
International Trade Lawyer of the Year
- Eugene Lim, Taxise Asia
- Lindsay Zhu, Squire Patton Boggs
- Qing Ren, Global Law Office
- Riza Buditomo, Hadipuranto, Hadinoto & Partners
- Young Gee Park, Lee & Ko
Data Privacy Lawyer of the Year
- Gabriela Kennedy, Mayer Brown
- Kieran Donovan, Latham & Watkins
- Noriya Ishikawa, Nishimura & Asahi
- Paolo Sbuttoni, Baker McKenzie
- Susan Ning, King & Wood Mallesons
Private Client Lawyer of the Year
- Caroline McNally, Gall
- Echo Zhao, Shanghai SF Lawyers
- Kevin Lee, Stephenson Harwood
- Sim Ho Ong, Drew & Napier
- Stacy Choong, Withers KhattarWong
Firm Awards
M&A Firm of the Year (Large deal $500M or above)
- Bae, Kim & Lee
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Nishimura & Asahi
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
M&A Firm of the Year (Medium-sized deal under $500M)
- Baker McKenzie
- Goodwin Procter
- JunHe
- Lee & Ko
- Rahmat Lim & Partners
- Shearman & Sterling
Finance Firm of the Year
- Allen & Gledhill
- Baker McKenzie
- Fangda Partners
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Lee & Ko
Securities Firm of the Year
- Clifford Chance
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Sidley Austin
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
- Zhong Lun Law Firm
Dispute Resolution Firm of the Year
- Allen & Gledhill
- Drew & Napier
- Global Law Office
- King & Wood Mallesons
- Latham & Watkins
Offshore Law Firm of the Year
- Carey Olsen
- Maples
- Walkers
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
- Baker McKenzie
- Bird & Bird
- JunHe
- Lee & Ko
- Mayer Brown
- Tilleke & Gibbins
Investment Funds Firm of the Year
- Allen & Gledhill
- Baker McKenzie
- Cooley
- Han Kun Law Offices
- Shearman & Sterling
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
TMT Firm of the Year
- Bae, Kim & Lee
- Fangda Partners
- JunHe
- Nishimura & Asahi
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Other Categories
Asian Pro Bono Initiative of the Year
- Davis Polk, King & Wood Mallesons, Kirkland, Linklaters, Freshfields, Latham’s Legal Aid Work with Justice Centre Hong Kong
- Hogan Lovells’ Counter Trafficking Work in Vietnam with Pacific Links Foundation
- Shearman & Sterling’s Role on Impact Investment Exchange’s Women’s Livelihood Bond 2
- Yulchon’s Guardianship for Crime Victims with Cognitive Disability
Asian Diversity Initiative of the Year
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Fully Agile Pilot Program
- Hugill & Ip Solicitors’ Private Screening of Movie Suk Suk
- Mayer Brown, Sidley Austin’s LGBT+ Awareness Raising Virtual Event with Hong Kong Gay and Lesbian Attorneys Network
- Shearman & Sterling’s Women Partner/Associate Mentoring Circles
Asian Technology and Innovation Initiative of the Year
- King & Wood Mallesons’ LG Crowd Multifunctional Process Improvement Team for National Australia Bank
- Mayer Brown’s Unit Allocation Tool for Automating Property Conveyancing in Hong Kong
- Nishimura New Normal Remote Work Optimization Project
Asia Alternative Legal Service Offering of the Year
- KorumLegal
- LOD
- Ropes & Gray’s Insights Lab Consulting and Analytics Offering
Best Crisis Management of the Year
To be announced at the awards ceremony.
In-House Awards
In-House Legal Department of the Year
Sponsored by:
- CITIC Capital
- Damansara Holdings
- Klook
- Manulife Asia
- Ping An Group
General Counsel of the Year
- Ajai Kumar Jain, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing
- Auzan Syaidi Abdul Lateh, Damansara Holdings
- Olivia Tong, KPMG China
- Steven Yeo, Manulife Asia
- Vincent Ng, Klook
ACC Outstanding Achievement Award
To be announced at the awards ceremony.
Grand Prizes
International Law Firm Leader of the Year
- David Zemans, Managing Partner, Milbank Asia
- Jamie Stranger, Greater China Managing Partner, Stephenson Harwood
- Julie Gao, Head of China, Skadden
- Lorna Chen, Asia Managing Partner, Shearman & Sterling
- May Tai, Asia Managing Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
Asian Law Firm Leader of the Year
- Joyce Li, Chief Executive, Han Kun Law Offices
- Michael Han, Managing Partner, Fangda Partners
- Seok Hoon Kang, Chief Managing Partner, Yulchon
- Siqi Fu, Partner in Charge, Tian Yuan Law Firm Hong Kong
- Xiaoliang Wu, Managing Partner, CM Law Firm
International Law Firm of the Year
- Baker McKenzie
- Cooley
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Asian Law Firm of the Year
- Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
- Fangda & Partners
- King & Wood Mallesons
- Lee & Ko
- Nishimura & Asahi