The nominations for the 2018 IFLR Asia Awards have been announced. For all the deal and team of the year shortlists, please see below.
The IFLR Asia Awards celebrate legally innovative teams and deals in the Asia-Pacific region, and will be held on Thursday March 1 at the Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong.
The national law firms of the year and pro bono firm of the year will be announced on the night.
The law firms listed on each deal are based on preliminary research and submissions. If your firm advised on one of these deals but we do not have you listed, please mail james.wilson@legalmediagroup.com
To reserve your table, please email Andrew Yuen at andrew.yuen@euromoneyasia.com or call +852 2842 6936.
DEALS OF THE YEAR
Debt & equity-linked
Ayala Corporation fixed-for-life notes
Maples and Calder
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Romulo Mabanta Buenaventura Sayoc & De Los Angeles
China Lodging equity-linked refinancing transactions
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Latham & Watkins
Tian Yuan Law Firm
Walkers
Government of Mongolia's liability management and sovereign bond
Allen & Gledhill
GTs Advocates
Hogan Lovells Mongolia
Mayer Brown JSM
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China CICERO notes
Allen & Overy
JunHe
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
Kyobo Life Insurance's subordinated capital securities offering
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Yulchon
Postal Savings Bank of China AT1 preference shares
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
PTTEP liability management and new issues
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Singha Estate's convertible bonds offering
Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow
Linklaters
Equity
China Literature IPO
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Grandall Law Firm
Han Kun Law Offices
Maples and Calder
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Lotte Chemical Titan Holding IPO
Adnan Sundra & Low
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Kadir Andri & Partners
Kim & Chang
Netlink NBN Trust IPO
Allen & Gledhill
Clifford Chance
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Sea Limited NYSE IPO
Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung
Kirkland & Ellis
Maples and Calder
Rajah & Tann
Rajah & Tann LCT Lawyers
VietJet Aviation IPO
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Vincom Retail IPO
Allen & Overy
Latham & Watkins
Vilaf
WuXi Biologics IPO
Fangda Partners
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Maples and Calder
Shearman & Sterling
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance H-share listing
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Grandall Law Firm
Han Kun Law Offices
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
High yield
Azure Power Energy
Appleby
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
IndusLaw
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown JSM
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Indika Energy senior notes
Allen & Gledhill
Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
Ginting & Reksodiputro in association with Allen & Overy
Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners
Mayer Brown JSM
Shearman & Sterling
Kaisa Group Holdings exchange offer and issuance
Harneys Westwood & Riegels
Jia Yuan Law Offices
Mayer Brown JSM
Shearman & Sterling
Sidley Austin
Paiton Energy coal-fired power plant
Adnan Kelana Haryanto & Hermanto
Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung
Latham & Watkins
NautaDutilh
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
SoftBank Group notes
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Sullivan & Cromwell
WTT high yield offering
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Maples and Calder
Xinhu Zhongbao senior notes
Grandall Law Firm
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
Ogier
M&A
Chow Tai Fook Enterprises / Alinta Energy
Allen & Overy
Harneys Westwood & Riegels
Herbert Smith Freehills
Greenwood Roche
HP / Samsung Electronics' printing business
Bae Kim & Lee
Christopher & Lee Ong
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
Kim & Chang
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Rajah & Tann Singapore
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Humanwell Healthcare and Citic Capital / Ansell
Gilbert + Tobin
Khaitan & Co
King & Wood Mallesons
Ropes & Gray
Thanathip & Partners
JERA / ReNew Power Ventures Private
Allen & Overy
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Nishith Desai Associates
Trilegal
Rosneft / Essar Oil
AZB Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mandalgas
Dechert
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
J Sagar Associates
Linklaters
Talwar Thakore & Associates
Slaughter and May
Starbucks / Uni-President Enterprises and President Chain Store
Chen & Lin
Fangda Partners
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Yangming Partners
Yanzhou Coal Mining and Yancoal / Coal & Allied
Allens
Baker McKenzie
Gilbert + Tobin
Herbert Smith Freehills
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
Private equity
Bank of East Asia / PRASAC Microfinance
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Maples and Calder
Mayer Brown JSM
Rajah & Tann
Sciaroni & Associates
Shook Lin & Bok
CITIC and The Carlyle Group / McDonald's
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
JunHe
Kirkland & Ellis
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Zhong Lun Law Firm
KKR / Calsonic Kansei
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
KKR / Pepper
Herbert Smith Freehills
Jones Day
King & Wood Mallesons
PAG / Yingde Gases
Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
David Norman & Co
Fangda Partners
Slaughter and May
Sullivan & Cromwell
Walkers
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati
Permira / Tricor
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Walkers
Prostar Capital / Kyungnam Energy
Allen & Overy
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Ropes & Gray
Walkers
Warburg Pincus / ARA
Allen & Gledhill
Baker McKenzie
Hall & Wilcox
Jones Day
Kim & Chang
Latham & Watkins
Rahmat Lim & Partners
WongPartnership
Project finance
Cirebon II IPP
Ali Budiardjo Nugroho Reksodiputro
Bae Kim & Lee
Drew & Napier
Latham & Watkins
Lee & Ko
Loyens & Loeff
Makarim & Taira S
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Shin & Kim
Karot Hydropower
Allen & Overy
Aqlaal Advocates
Deacons
Global Law Office
Kabraji & Talibuddin
Mourant Ozannes
RIAA Barker Gillette
Shearman & Sterling
Legoland theme park – Tokyo
Clifford Chance
White & Case
Muara Laboh IPP
Ali Budiardjo Nugroho Reksodiputro
Latham & Watkins
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Mochtar Karuwin Komar
Momo-o Matsuo & Namba
Myingyan IPP
Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar)
Allen & Overy
DFDL (Myanmar)
Duane Morris & Selvam
Mayer Brown JSM
Sidrap Wind Farm
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
DLA Piper
Sirajganj Greenfield Power Plant
Allen & Overy
Ahmed & Farooq
Baker & McKenzie
DFDL
Shearman & Sterling
Tanjung Jati 5 & 6 (Jawa-4) expansion
Ali Budiardjo Nugroho Reksodiputro
Allen & Overy
Latham & Watkins
Makarim & Taira S
Restructuring
Arrium restructuring
Arnold Bloch Leibler
Clayton Utz
Gilbert + Tobin
King & Wood Mallesons
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Bis Industries restructuring
Allens
Carey Olsen
Clifford Chance
Gilbert + Tobin
Herbert Smith Freehills
Linklaters
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
EMAS Chiyoda Subsea restructuring
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Allen & Gledhill
Blank Rome
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Porter Hedges
Shook Lin & Bok
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Vinson & Elkins
White & Case
WongPartnership
Emeco recapitalisation and triple merger
Baker McKenzie
Gilbert + Tobin
Sullivan & Cromwell
KrisEnergy capital restructuring
Allen & Gledhill
Clifford Chance
Latham & Watkins
WongPartnership
Walkers
Mongolian Mining restructuring
Carey Olsen
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Harneys Westwood & Riegels
Mayer Brown JSM
Ogier
Ropes & Gray
Walkers
Structured finance and securitisation
Avant Trust notes
Allen & Overy
Clayton Utz
King & Wood Mallesons
Latitude's credit card master trust
Clifford Chance
Herbert Smith Freehills
King & Wood Mallesons
Neerg Energy / ReNew high yield
Allen & Overy
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Latham & Watkins
Orient auto loan-backed receivables
Clifford Chance
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Nishimura & Asahi
Seward & Kissel
Sidley Austin
Shinhan Card's Credit Card ABS issuance
Bae Kim & Lee
Jones Day
Kim & Chang
Shin & Kim
Walkers
Trafigura's non-recourse commodity inventory funding programme
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Overy
JunHe
Katten Muchin & Rosenman
Kim & Chang
Lee and Li
Rahmat Lim & Partners
White & Case
United Overseas Bank covered bonds
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Overy
Linklaters
LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Debt & equity-linked
Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Mayer Brown JSM
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Equity
Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
High yield
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown JSM
Shearman & Sterling
Sidley Austin
Sullivan & Cromwell
M&A
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Private equity
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
King & Wood Mallesons
Kirkland & Ellis
Ropes & Gray
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Project finance
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Latham & Watkins
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling
Mayer Brown JSM
Linklaters
Restructuring
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Gilbert + Tobin
King & Wood Mallesons
Kirkland & Ellis
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Ropes & Gray
White & Case
Structured finance and securitisation
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Jones Day
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
In-house equity team
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley
In-house debt team
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
JP Morgan
HSBC
Standard Chartered
Pro bono team of the year
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Overy
Bae Kim & Lee
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Hogan Lovells
Lee & Ko
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
WongPartnership
Regional firm of the year
Allen & Gledhill
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
AZB & Partners
Bae Kim & Lee
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Fangda Partners
Gilbert + Tobin
Kim & Chang
King Wood & Mallesons
Financial services regulatory
Allen & Overy
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deacons
Herbert Smith Freehills
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
Offshore firm of the year
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Maples and Calder
Mourant Ozannes
Walkers
China practice of the year
Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
US law firm of the year
Baker McKenzie
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown JSM
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
International law firm of the year
Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Mayer Brown JSM
Shearman & Sterling