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Harneys wins Deal of the Year Awards: IFLR Asia-Pacific and The Asia Legal Awards

22 Mar 2024
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Harneys has won three Deal of the Year Awards from IFLR Asia-Pacific. The results were announced on 20 March at an awards ceremony in Hong Kong, attended by Partners Calvin Chow, Maggie Kwok, Raymond Ng, and Paul Sephton. The firm was also awarded Deal of the Year at The Asia Legal Awards, hosted by Law.com International, which took place in Singapore on 14 March 2024.

The deals

  • Equity Deal of the Year awarded by IFLR for the firm’s involvement in J&T Global Express’s Hong Kong IPO. Harneys acted as Cayman Islands legal counsel to J&T Global Express Limited on its successful initial public offering with an offering size of HK$3,918.6 million (approximately US$500 million).
  • Restructuring Deal of the Year awarded by IFLR for the firm’s work on the Sunac debt restructuring. Harneys acted as offshore counsel for the ad hoc group of bondholders and lenders of Sunac China, a Hong-Kong listed property developer in the PRC, in relation to Sunac China’s financial restructuring of its offshore liabilities amounting to approximately US$10.2 billion
  • Private Equity Deal of the Year awarded by both bodies for the firm’s instruction on the Chindata Group take-private. Harneys acted as Cayman Islands counsel to APG Asset Management N.V. in relation to the going-private transaction of Chindata Group Holdings Ltd.

The IFLR awards celebrate the most legally innovative cross-border deals closed in the previous year and the law firms, legal teams, and lawyers behind them.

The Asia Legal Awards honour the best work in the region, identify the most important transactions and cases with the most complex and outstanding legal work in Asia.

Recently, the firm also won several Deal of the Year awards from China Business Law Journal.

The Harneys Asia practice is known as one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing offshore legal teams in the region. With 65 lawyers and continuing to grow, the firm’s three full-service offices across Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai represent one of the largest Asia networks of any offshore law firm.