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Investors acquire stake in Alibaba Group

- $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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