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Investors acquire stake in Alibaba Group

US$1,600.00 m

Entry date - Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Jurisdiction - China, Hong Kong, Singapore
Practice - M&A
Investors acquire stake in Alibaba Group

Firm Debevoise & Plimpton Client Alibaba Group Lead Lawyers Tom Britt Role International counsel to target	Firm Goodwin Procter Client Digital Sky Technologies Lead Lawyers Yash Rana Role International counsel to investor	Firm Haiwen & Asia Client Silver Lake, Temasek Lead Lawyers Role PRC counsel to investors
Firm Paul Weiss Client Silver Lake, Temasek Lead Lawyers Jeanette Chan Role International counsel to investors	Firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Client Yunfeng Lead Lawyers Leiming Chen, Philip Culhane Role International counsel to investor

DEAL SUMMARY

· A consortium of investors to acquire a stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group for $1.6 billion

· Consortium includes; US private equity firm Silver lake Technology Management, Digital Sky Technologies, Singapore’s Temasek and Yunfeng Capital

· Debevoise & Plimpton has long-standing relationship with Alibaba dating back to 2005 when Yahoo! bought a 40 percent stake in the company for $1 billion

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