Deal Awards
M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia
Prudential Financial’s $1.9B Sale of Prudential Life Insurance Korea
Debevoise & Plimpton
Kim & Chang
Yulchon
M&A Deal of the Year: South & Southeast Asia
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 Group
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
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
Finance Deal of the Year: Projects
Meghnaghat II Gas-Fired Power Project’s $642M Financing and Development
Baker McKenzie
Farooq & Associates
Securities Deal of the Year: Debt
Mongolia’s $600M Sovereign Bond for Sustainable Development
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
DB>S
Dorsey & Whitney
Mayer Brown
Melville Erdenedalai
Securities Deal of the Year: Equity
JD.com’s $4.3B Hong Kong Secondary Listing
Clifford Chance
Han Kun Law Offices
Maples Group
Shihui Partners
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Private Equity Deal of the Year
KKR and Rakuten’s $1.6B Acquisition of Seiyu Stakes
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Nishimura & Asahi
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
TMT Deal of the Year
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
Individual Awards
IPO Lawyer of the Year
Paloma Wang, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Private Equity Lawyer of the Year
Tsuyoshi Imai, Ropes & Gray
Energy and Infrastructure Lawyer of the Year
Tomohiro Sato, Nishimura & Asahi
International Trade Lawyer of the Year
Eugene Lim, Taxise Asia
Data Privacy Lawyer of the Year
Kieran Donovan, Latham & Watkins
Private Client Lawyer of the Year
Kevin Lee, Stephenson Harwood
Firm Awards
M&A Firm of the Year (Large deal $500M or above)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
M&A Firm of the Year (Medium-sized deal under $500M)
Goodwin Procter
Finance Firm of the Year
Fangda Partners
Securities Firm of the Year
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Dispute Resolution Firm of the Year
King & Wood Mallesons
Offshore Law Firm of the Year
Maples
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
Lee & Ko
Investment Funds Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
TMT Firm of the Year
Bae, Kim & Lee
Other Categories
Asian Pro Bono Initiative of the Year
Hogan Lovells’ Counter Trafficking Work in Vietnam with Pacific Links Foundation
Asian Diversity Initiative of the Year
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
Asia Alternative Legal Service Offering of the Year
KorumLegal
Best Crisis Management of the Year
Fangda Partners
In-House Awards
In-House Legal Department of the Year
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Manulife Asia
General Counsel of the Year
Vincent Ng, Klook
ACC Outstanding Achievement Award
Sharyn Ch'ang, PwC
Grand Prizes
International Law Firm Leader of the Year
May Tai, Herbert Smith Freehills Asia
Asian Law Firm Leader of the Year
Joyce Li, Han Kun Law Offices
International Law Firm of the Year
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Asian Law Firm of the Year
Nishimura & Asahi