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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 India and Indonesia 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

Provided by Linklaters

  • Linklaters acted for the joint lead managers on a USD300 million 144A/Reg S repack senior secured social notes securitisation offering by India Vehicle Finance.

  • Linklaters acted for Bank of America Merrill Lynch as the lead underwriter of iDreamSky Technology's issuance of convertible bonds listed on the Singapore Exchange. New shares issued upon conversion of the bonds were to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. 

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Their international presence combined with their vast knowledge and expertise in capital markets have made our lives a lot easier whenever we've tried to explore new ideas.

Capital Markets: Equity respondent
Global

They have an incredible market share for equity-linked transactions in APAC. They are very, very good at understanding the technical elements when it comes to drafting and product-specific details. 

Capital Markets: Equity respondent
Global