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As Asia’s most renowned ceremony for the legal elite, The Asia Legal Awards honor the best work in the region. Across our coverage of practice areas and disciplines we intend to identify the most important transactions and cases with the most complex and outstanding legal work in Asia. The awards is open to all firms with offices in Asia.

2019 Past Winner

M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia
Takeda Pharmaceutical’s acquisition of Shire
Davis Polk Wardwell
Linklaters
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Nishimura & Asahi
Slaughter and May
Sullivan & Cromwell

M&A Deal of the Year: South Asia
Merger of Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers
AZB & Partners
Bharucha & Partners
Nishith Desai & Associates
S&R Associates
Slaughter & May

M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia
Grab’s acquisition of Uber Southeast Asia business
ABNR Counselors at Law
Allen & Gledhill
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Morrison & Foerster
Rahmat Lim & Partners
SSEK Indonesian Legal Consultants
Walkers
Weerawong C&P
Zaid Ibrahim & Co

Finance Deal of the Year: Acquisitions
Financing for Tianqi Lithium’s acquisition of SQM
Allen & Overy
JunHe
King & Wood Mallesons
Latham & Watkins
Nishimura & Asahi
White & Case
Zhong Lun Law Firm

Finance Deal of the Year: Insolvency and Restructuring
Noble Group restructuring
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Allen & Gledhill
Allen & Overy
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Clifford Chance
HFW
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Morgan Lewis Stamford
Walkers
White & Case
WongPartnership

Finance Deal of the Year: Projects
Financing for Eastern Indonesian renewable energy project
ABNR
Assegaf Hamzah and Partners
Baker & McKenzie
DLA Piper
Hendra Soenardi
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Shearman & Sterling

Securities Deal of the Year: Debt
Korea Housing Finance Corp.’s social covered bond
Kim & Chang
Linklaters
Shin & Kim

Securities Deal of the Year: Equity
Xiaomi’s Hong Kong IPO
Clifford Chance
Jingtian & Gongcheng
JunHe
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Private Equity Deal of the Year
Ant Financial's series c financing
Allen & Overy
Appleby
Fangda Partners
Goodwin Procter
King & Wood Mallesons
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
Morrison & Foerster
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
Walkers
White & Case

Energy and Infrastructure Project of the Year
West Java LNG-to-power project
Allen & Overy
Ginting & Reksodiputro
Mayer Brown
Shearman & Sterling
Widyawan & Partners

TMT Deal of the Year
Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart
Allen & Gledhill
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Dentons Rodyk
Drew & Napier
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian
Hogan Lovells
Khaitan & Co
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Trilegal
WongPartnership

M&A Lawyer of the Year
Marcia Ellis, Morrison & Foerster

Finance Lawyer of the Year
Richard Perks, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Securities Lawyer of the Year
Julie Gao, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Litigation and Investigations Lawyer of the Year
Baek Chang-hoon, Kim & Chang

Energy and Infrastructure Lawyer of the Year
Ben Shorten, Shearman & Sterling

Trade Lawyer of the Year
Pu Lingchen, Zhong Lun Law Firm

M&A Firm of the Year
Nishimura & Asahi

Finance Firm of the Year
King & Wood Mallesons

Investment Funds Firm of the Year
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Securities Firm of the Year
Clifford Chance

Dispute Resolution Firm of the Year
Gall

Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
Tilleke & Gibbins

TMT Firm of the Year
Lee & Ko

Offshore Law Firm of the Year
Maples and Calder

Shipping Firm of the Year
Norton Rose Fulbright

Private Client Firm of the Year
Stephenson Harwood

New Asian Office of the Year
CMS, Hong Kong

Asian Pro Bono Initiative of the Year
Mayer Brown: help refugees obtain Hong Kong employment permission

Asian Diversity Initiative of the Year
Hogan Lovells, Pride+

Asian Technology and Innovation Initiative of the Year
Bird & Bird: Patent Portfolio Intelligence Offering

Alternative Legal Service Offering of the Year
Herbert Smith Freehills' Global Alternative Legal Services Resourcing

In-House Legal Department of the Year
Walmart Asia

International Law Firm Leader of the Year
Julie Gao, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Asian Law Firm Leader of the Year
Sai Ree Yun, Yulchon

Asian Law Firm of the Year
King & Wood Mallesons