About

Provided by Linklaters

Debt
We have unrivalled depth and experience, leading the market in innovative and ground-breaking regulatory capital transactions. We actively participate in the current regulatory debate and have regular dialogue with a range of market participants, including national regulators, issuers, structurers and investors.

Equity
Our Equities practice brings together market leading practitioners with local and international knowledge and experience across the full range of equities products, including IPOs, rights issues, open offers, block trades and other equity offerings. Banks, financial institutions and corporates turn to us for their most significant equities transactions.

High Yield
Linklaters offers a high caliber Asia-based high yield team supported by London specialists, and can provide innovative solutions in this increasingly sophisticated high yield debt market. We have long standing relationships with a number of PRC corporates and other Asian issuers, who value the experience and innovation we bring to their transactions and continue to choose us when seeking advice on for their high yield debt issuances.

DSP and Securitisation
Linklaters has the leading derivatives, structured finance and securitisation practice team in Asia. Our award-winning team work on the high-profile and most innovative and continuously delivering solutions for structurally complex deals that help our clients navigate the ever changing nature of financial regulation in Greater China and Asia.

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Capital Markets: Equity - Asia-Pacific Region

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What the Team is Known For

Linklaters has a truly region-wide offering with large pools of resources and expertise in Greater China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand, in addition to robust activity in the Indian and Indonesian markets. The team represents blue-chip clients in a comprehensive range of DCM matters, including convertible and exchangeable bond offerings and vanilla investment-grade debt issuances. Additionally, the firm maintains a notable ECM practice advising on IPOs, block trades and secondary offerings in a number of key jurisdictions. In addition, it has a comprehensive derivatives, securities and structured products practice.

Notable practitioners

William Liu is a key contact in Hong Kong, while Singapore-based Jonathan Horan and Amit Singh are also key contacts. Peter Frost is the key contact for the Japan practice, while Pornpan Chayasuntorn is a main contact for the Thailand practice.

Work Highlights

  • Linklaters advised the joint lead managers on the issuance of USD2.75 billion trust certificates by the Republic of Indonesia.

  • Linklaters acted as the Hong Kong and US counsel for the joint sponsors and underwriters on the global offering and listing of H-shares of Contemporary Amperex Technology on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, raising approximately USD5.3 billion.

Strengths

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