FinanceAsia is pleased to announce the winners of its country awards, the second of a four-part series revealing our Achievement Awards for 2016.
We will announce the best deals overall and the best banks in a variety of categories next week. But for now — the following deals were the most impressive among all those we considered from individual countries.
BEST CHINA DEAL
Hewlett-Packard’s $2.3 billion sale of 51% of H3C to Tsinghua Unisplendour
Target adviser: Credit Suisse
Acquirer adviser: Zhong De Securities
BEST HONG KONG DEAL
SCMP Group’s HK$2 billion sale of its media assets to Alibaba Group
Target adviser: HSBC
BEST INDIA DEAL
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance's $912 million IPO
Global coordinators: Bank of America Merrill Lynch and ICICI Securities
Bookrunners: UBS, Citic CLSA, Deutsche Bank, Edelweiss, HSBC, IIFL, JM Financial and SBI Capital
BEST INDONESIA DEAL
The Republic of Indonesia’s €3 billion seven and 12 year bond
Global coordinators: Barclays, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Societe Generale
BEST KOREA DEAL
Samsung BioLogics’ $2 billion IPO
Global coordinators: Citigroup and Korea Investment & Securities
Bookrunners: NH Investment & Securities, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse
BEST MALAYSIA DEAL
Maybank’s $500 million 10.5NC5.5 Basel III-compliant bond
Bookrunners: Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Maybank Kim Eng
BEST MONGOLIA DEAL
The Government of Mongolia’s $500 million bond
Global coordinators: Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, ING and JP Morgan
BEST PAKISTAN DEAL
Abraaj Group’s $1.77 billion sale of 66.4% of K-Electric to Shanghai Electric Power
Seller advisers: Citi, Credit Suisse
Acquirer adviser: Guotai Junan Securities, JP Morgan
BEST PHILIPPINES DEAL
ICTSI’s $345.4 million tender offer and $375 million perpetual bond issue
Bookrunners: Citi, HSBC, Standard Chartered
BEST SINGAPORE DEAL
DBS Holdings' $750 million additional Tier One capital deal
Global coordinator: DBS
Bookrunners: Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Societe Generale
BEST SRI LANKA DEAL
The Republic of Sri Lanka’s $1.5 billion bond
Joint global coordinators: Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Standard Chartered.
BEST TAIWAN DEAL
Hon Hai Precision’s ¥388.8 billion acquisition of Sharp
Target advisers: Mizuho and Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities
Acquirer adviser: JP Morgan
BEST THAILAND DEAL
Casino’s Bht122.16 billion sale of 58.56% of Big C Supercentre to BJC
Seller advisers: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, Natixis, Rothschild, Societe Generale
Acquirer adviser: Morgan Stanley
BEST VIETNAM DEAL
Casino’s €920 million sale of Big C Vietnam to Central Group
Seller adviser: BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, HSBC
Acquirer adviser: Citi, Deutsche Bank
On Thursday, we announced the Best Private Bank winners.
