Capital Markets: Derivatives & Structured Products
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025 : Asia-Pacific Region
Band 1
About
Provided by Linklaters
Debt
We have unrivalled depth and experience, leading the market in innovative and ground-breaking regulatory capital transactions. We actively participate in the current regulatory debate and have regular dialogue with a range of market participants, including national regulators, issuers, structurers and investors.
Equity
Our Equities practice brings together market leading practitioners with local and international knowledge and experience across the full range of equities products, including IPOs, rights issues, open offers, block trades and other equity offerings. Banks, financial institutions and corporates turn to us for their most significant equities transactions.
High Yield
Linklaters offers a high caliber Asia-based high yield team supported by London specialists, and can provide innovative solutions in this increasingly sophisticated high yield debt market. We have long standing relationships with a number of PRC corporates and other Asian issuers, who value the experience and innovation we bring to their transactions and continue to choose us when seeking advice on for their high yield debt issuances.
DSP and Securitisation
Linklaters has the leading derivatives, structured finance and securitisation practice team in Asia. Our award-winning team work on the high-profile and most innovative and continuously delivering solutions for structurally complex deals that help our clients navigate the ever changing nature of financial regulation in Greater China and Asia.
Chambers Review
Linklaters has a truly region-wide offering with large pools of resources and expertise in Greater China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand, in addition to robust activity in the India and Indonesia markets. The team represents blue-chip clients in a comprehensive range of DCM matters, including convertible and exchangeable bond offerings and vanilla investment-grade debt issuances. Additionally, the firm maintains a notable ECM practice advising on IPOs, block trades and secondary offerings in a number of key jurisdictions. In addition, it has a comprehensive derivatives, securities and structured products practice.
William Liu is a key contact in Hong Kong, while Singapore-based Jonathan Horan and Amit Singh are also key contacts. Peter Frost is the key contact for the Japan practice.
Work Highlights
- Linklaters acted forBank of America Merrill Lynch as the lead underwriter of iDreamSky Technology's issuance of convertible bonds listed on the Singapore Exchange. New shares issued upon conversion of the bonds were to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
- Linklaters acted for the joint lead managers on a USD300 million 144A/Reg S repack senior secured social notes securitisation offering by India Vehicle Finance.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Their international presence combined with their vast knowledge and expertise in capital markets have made our lives a lot easier whenever we've tried to explore new ideas."
"They have an incredible market share for equity-linked transactions in APAC. They are very, very good at understanding the technical elements when it comes to drafting and product-specific details."
"Their international presence combined with their vast knowledge and expertise in capital markets have made our lives a lot easier whenever we've tried to explore new ideas."
"They have an incredible market share for equity-linked transactions in APAC. They are very, very good at understanding the technical elements when it comes to drafting and product-specific details."