Linklaters

We offer clients premium international legal advice with lawyers advising English and US law. Singapore is our hub for South East Asia and India, forming an integral part of the firm’s global capital markets, corporate/M&A, banking and projects teams. We serve clients across  Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, providing them with an international legal service unparalleled in excellence.

Recent significant transactions include advising

• the Republic of Indonesia on its US$9 billion global medium term note program and each of its 144A/Reg S issuances in 2009, 2010 and 2011 in an aggregate US$7.5 billion– the first GMTN program established for the Republic of Indonesia. Debt Market Deal of the Year, ALB South East Asia Law Awards 2010
• on the Khazanah S$1.5 billion sukuk – the largest sukuk issuance in Singapore with the longest tenor, the largest Singapore dollar issuance by a foreign issuer in Singapore and the first  Singapore dollar sukuk issuance out of the Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre.  Islamic Finance Deal of the Year, ALB SE Asia Awards 2011 and Singapore Deal of the Year, Corporate Finance Deal of the Year, Islamic Finance News Awards 2010
• Cebu Air, Inc., in connection with its ₱27 billion (US$617 million) initial public offering – the largest ever IPO in the Philippines
• PT Bank CIMB Niaga Tbk and Standard Chartered Bank, Jakarta Branch in their capacities as mandated lead arrangers on an IDR 3.5 trillion (approximately US$370 million) facility for PT Matahari Department Store Tbk – the first Rupiah financed private equity leveraged buy-out in Indonesia, Private Equity Deal of the Year, IFLR Asia Awards 2011
• the Singapore Ministry of Finance on the development of the US$1.3 billion Sports Hub PPP project, under which a new national stadium and related sporting and leisure facilities will be developed in Singapore – this will be the world's largest sports PPP - PPP Deal of the Year, Infrastructure Journal Awards 2010 and PPP Deal of the Year, Project Finance International Asia-Pacific Awards 2010
• the international lenders, including both Japanese and PRC banks, on the financing of CLP’s 1,320MW Jhajjar coal-fired IPP in India – the first financing of an Indian thermal power project by international commercial banks in more than a decade and at US$1.3 billion a significant overseas investment by CLP into India - Indian Deal of the Year, Project Finance International Asia-Pacific Awards 2010
• the arrangers on the US$6 billion acquisition financing to members of the Vedanta Plc group to fund the acquisition of a controlling stake in Cairn Energy Limited – one of the largest in-bound acquisitions into India to date with a complex acquisition and financing structure