The nominations for the 2017 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 March 2 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 e-mail james.wilson@legalmediagroup.com
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DEALS OF THE YEAR
Debt & equity-linked
Bank of China international green bonds
Clifford Chance
Jingtian & Gongcheng
JunZeJun Law Offices
Linklaters
China Yangtze Power dual currency exchangeable bonds
Beijing Dentons Law Offices
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Tian Yuan Law Firm
China Railway Construction convertible bonds
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
DeHeng Law Offices
Fangda Partners
China's London listed RMB bond
Fangda Partners
Herbert Smith Freehills
Linklaters
HDFC rupee-denominated debt issuance
AZB & Partners
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Mizuho Financial Group notes offering
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
NTCP Green Masala bond
Allen & Overy
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Tiwi MakBan project bond
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Picazo Buyco Tan Fider & Santos
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
Equity
BOC Aviation IPO
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Overy
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
China Resources Pharmaceutical IPO
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Jia Yuan Law Offices
King & Wood Mallesons
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company IPO
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Davis Polk & Wardwell
S&R Associates
Kyushu Railway Company IPO
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
Line Corporation IPO
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Nishimura & Asahi
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Manulife US REIT's IPO
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Overy
Shook Lin & Bok
Postal Savings Bank of China Hong Kong IPO
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Haiwen & Partners
King & Wood Mallesons
High yield
Biostime International Holdings
Clifford Chance
Fangda Partners
Linklaters
Ogier
Walkers
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Cikarang Listrindo
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Shearman & Sterling
Delhi International Airport
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Krishnamurthy & Co
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling
Greenko high yield green bond
Appleby
Ashurst
Bedell Cristin
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Mayer Brown JSM
Shearman & Sterling
Talwar Thakore & Associates
Hsin Chong Construction
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Jun He Law Office
Simmons & Simmons
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Jiangsu NewheadLine
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Jingtian & Gongcheng
King & Wood Mallesons
Mayer Brown JSM
Studio City
Ashurst
Kirkland & Ellis
Harneys
Henrique Saldanha A&N
Manuela António
Maples and Calder
White & Case
M&A
Alibaba Group/Lazada Group
Dechert
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Morgan Lewis Stamford
Noerr
Stibbe
SSEK
Sullivan & Cromwell
Weerawong C&P
China Resources Beer/SABMiller
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fangda Partners
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Sullivan & Cromwell
Walkers
Chubu Electric-TEPCO joint-venture
Allen & Overy
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Ashurst
Baker McKenzie
Morrison & Foerster
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Nishimura & Asahi
Norton Rose Fulbright
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Tsujimaki Law Offices
White & Case
Didi Chuxing/Uber China
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fangda Partners
Han Kun Law Offices
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Walkers
Foxconn/Sharp
Baker McKenzie
Nishimura & Asahi
Phoenix Healthcare Group/CR Healthcare
Reed Smith Richards Butler
Shearman & Sterling
TCC Group/Groupe Casino
Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier
Linklaters
Weerawong C&P
Tsinghua Unigroup/Hewlett-Packard Corporation
Allen & Overy
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Private equity
Au Financiers secondary share sale
AZB Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Jyoti Sagar Associates
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Baring and Glenwood/Lafarge Halla
Kim & Chang
Linklaters
White & Case
Yulchon
Baring/Interplex Holdings
Allen & Gledhill
Drew & Napier
Walkers
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Wong Partnership
Carlyle sale of New Century REIT
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Clifford Chance
Carlyle sale of Ta Chong Bank
Baker & McKenzie
Lee & Li
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
CVC/Nirvana privatisation
Clifford Chance
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Mourant Ozannes
Sullivan & Cromwell
Walkers
Jiu Ding Capital/Modern Metal Precision Die Casting
Baker McKenzie
Sidley Austin
Zhong Lun Law Firm
MBK Partners and TPG acquisition of Wharf's telecom unit
Clifford Chance
Deacons
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Walkers
Project finance
Central Java IPP financing
Ali Budiarjo Nugroho Reksodiputro
Hendra Soenardi
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Mochtar Karuwin & Komar
Shearman & Sterling
Light Rail Manila Corporation's LRT project
Abuda Asis & Associates
Nabarro
Pinsent Masons
Shearman & Sterling
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine
Farara Kerins
Kaufhold Ossola & Associates
Lackowicz & Hoffman
LehmanLaw Mongolia
Loyens & Loeff
MahoneyLiotta
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling
Sullivan & Cromwell
VanDoorne
VanEps Kunneman
Tangguh 3 LNG project
Allen & Overy
Ali Budiardjo Nugroho Reksodiputro
Ginting & Reksodiputro
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Widyawan & Partners
Tengizchevroil upstream expansion
Latham & Watkins
Sullivan & Cromwell
Thar Coal Mine and IPP financing
Anjarwalla Collins and Haidermota
Haidermota BNR & Co
Lincoln's Law Chamber
Linklaters
Moshin Tayebaly & Co
Pinsent Masons
RIAA Barker Gillette
Vellani & Vellani
Zhong Lun Law Firm
VICT Webb Dock container terminal
Allen & Overy
Allens
Linklaters
Zonergy's Quaid-i-Azam solar park
DeHeng Law Offices
Mohsin Tayebaly & Co
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co
Restructuring
AusGroup restructuring
Allen & Gledhill
Ashurst
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Morgan Lewis
Murcia Pestell Hillard
CIT Aerospace – Skymark restructuring
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Nishimura & Partners
White & Case
Hyundai Merchant Marine
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Ince & Co
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Shin & Kim
Yulchon
Kaisa Group restructuring
Harneys
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown JSM
O'Melveny & Myers
Mourant Ozannes
Ropes & Gray
Tanner de Witt
Walkers
Pacific Andes Resources Development restructuring
Advocatus Law
Appleby
Cavenagh Law
DLA Piper
Drew & Napier
Forbes Hare
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Kelley Drye & Warren
Lowenstein Sandler
Luskin Stern & Eisler
Mayer Brown JSM
Meyer Suozzi English & Klein
Rajah & Tann
Sidley Austin
Tan Rajah & Cheah
TSMP Law Corporation
White & Case
Wong Partnership
Structured finance and securitisation
Bank of China green covered notes
Clifford Chance
Jingtian & Gongcheng
JunZeJun Law Offices
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
ISDA Japan WGMR Project
Linklaters
Leveraged FCNR structuring
Juris Corp
Lotte Capital lease receivables securitisation
Jones Day
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Pepper residential securities
Chapman and Cutler
Clayton Utz
King & Wood Mallesons
Mayer Brown JSM
Minter Ellison
Sidley Austin
Profit Reach international facility
Clifford Chance
King & Wood Mallesons
Ogier
White & Case
LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Debt & equity-linked
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Linklaters
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Equity
Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
High yield
Ashurst
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Linklaters
Mayer Brown JSM
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling
White & Case
M&A
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Private equity
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Sidley Austin
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Project finance
Allen & Overy
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Pinsent Masons
Shearman & Sterling
Sullivan & Cromwell
Restructuring
Drew & Napier
Hogan Lovells
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown JSM
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Morgan Lewis
Ropes & Gray
White & Case
Wong Partnership
Structured finance and securitisation
Clifford Chance
Jones Day
Kim & Chang
King & Wood Mallesons
Lee & Ko
Linklaters
White & Case
Regional firm of the year
Allen & Gledhill
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Fangda Partners
Kim & Chang
King & Wood Mallesons
Nishimura & Asahi
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Financial services regulatory
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deacons
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Linklaters
Offshore firm of the year
Appleby
Bedell Cristin
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Harneys
Maples and Calder
Ogier
Walkers
China practice of the year
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
US law firm of the year
Baker McKenzie
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
White & Case
International law firm of the year
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling
Sullivan & Cromwell