Linklaters

Together, we offer clients premium domestic and international legal advice with lawyers advising on Singapore, Hong Kong, UK and US law.  Singapore is a hub of activity for South East Asia. From this base we serve clients in Singapore as well as further afield in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Following recent deregulation of the Singaporean legal market, Linklaters Allen & Gledhill decided to remain a joint law venture for a variety of reasons. These include:

• Proven track record – with Allen & Gledhill named IFLR’s ‘Singapore Law Firm of the Year’ for nine consecutive years and Linklaters Allen & Gledhill listed at the top of all rankings tables year upon year, we are consistently advising on the region’s headline transactions
• Unrivalled experience in the Singapore market – Allen & Gledhill’s 106 years’ experience in Singapore combined with Linklaters’ global expertise and almost 20 years in Singapore, results in a client offering in South East Asia that is second to none
• More than the sum of the parts – the Linklaters Allen & Gledhill joint law venture is widely recognised as the most successful in Singapore with many factors underpinning this success including: history, the sharing of know-how and resources, teamwork as well as a strong commitment to ensuring we remain market leader

Linklaters Allen & Gledhill is an integral part of the firm’s regional capital markets, corporate/M&A, banking and projects teams. We also have members of our India team based in Singapore covering the majority of practice areas.

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

Linklaters operates in Singapore through Linklaters Allen & Gledhill Pte Ltd, a registered law joint venture between Linklaters LLP and Allen & Gledhill.