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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates
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Capital Markets: Equity - Asia-Pacific Region

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What the Team is Known For

Skadden has a strong reputation for its broad capital markets practice, with notable prowess in cross-border equity offerings. It has extended its practice across South-East Asia from its Singapore office, while maintaining its strong presence in Hong Kong. Its established team in Japan is well regarded for advice on US law and international IPOs. It also ably handles high-yield bond issuances, where it has been busy advising on complex offerings in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. The firm ably handles regional investment-grade offerings spanning South-East Asia, China and Japan and represents an impressive roster of international banks, industrial corporations and sovereign wealth funds.

Strengths

Skadden has a highly trusted team that is very easy to work with and reliable and helpful across many situations.

Skadden is very dedicated, with efficient execution. Everything felt smooth despite the complex transaction structure and very tight project time window.

Work Highlights

Skadden advised Perenti on the issuance of USD350 million guaranteed senior unsecured notes by its finance subsidiary, maturing in April 2029, to refinance existing notes and reduce syndicated debt.

Skadden advised Xiaomi on its HKD42.6 billion placing of existing shares and top-up subscription of new shares.

Notable practitioners

Asia-Pacific head of capital markets Adrian Deitz is a key contact in Sydney. Other key contacts include Jonathan Stone in Hong Kong and Rajeev Duggal in Singapore.