January 22, 2007 Contact information: Carrie Ho (deal queries, submissions etc) carrie.ho@mergermarket.com Tel: + 852 2158 9725 Elisabeth Nygren (PR) elisabeth.nygren@mergermarket.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7059 6151 mergermarket s Year End 2006 M&A House League Tables of Legal Advisers to Asia-Pacific M&A Regional league tables provided for Asia (ex. Japan), Australasia, Greater China, and Asia-Pacific (ex. Japan). ASIA* (EX JAPAN): transactions in Asia (ex Japan) in the period 01 January 2006 31 December 2006 (1) 1 Linklaters 27,620 48 2 Slaughter and May 25,170 22 3 Allen & Overy 19,572 20 4 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz, Stibbe 18,577 16 5 Davis Polk & Wardwell 17,512 10 6 Allen & Gledhill 17,287 33 7 Baker & McKenzie 16,661 44 8 Kim & Chang 15,840 10 9 Sullivan & Cromwell 15,790 10 10 White & Case 13,348 19 11 Clifford Chance 12,528 35 12 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 11,870 45 13 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 11,669 4 14 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 11,291 9 15 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 10,110 18 16 LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae 9,278 6 17 Hunton & Williams 8,563 8 18 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 7,913 2 19 Shearman & Sterling 7,790 12 20 Zaid Ibrahim & Co 6,006 8 1
mergermarket league table (by volume) of legal advisers advising on announced transactions in Asia (ex Japan) in the period 01 January 2006 31 December 2006 (1) 1 Linklaters 27,620 48 2 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 11,870 45 3 Baker & McKenzie 16,661 44 4 Clifford Chance 12,528 35 5 Allen & Gledhill 17,287 33 6 Jones Day 5,517 33 7 Wong Partnership 5,890 31 8 Slaughter and May 25,170 22 9 Allen & Overy 19,572 20 10 White & Case 13,348 19 11 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 10,110 18 12 Norton Rose 4,975 17 13 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz, Stibbe 18,577 16 14 Rajah & Tann 4,361 15 15 Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co 3,291 13 16 Shearman & Sterling 7,790 12 17 King & Wood 5,417 12 18 Lee and Li 3,973 12 19 Simmons & Simmons 3,592 12 20 Desai & Diwanji 632 12 * Excludes Australasia. 2
AUSTRALASIA**: transactions in Australasia in the period 01 January 2006 31 December 2006 (1) 1 Freehills 81,762 86 2 Allens Arthur Robinson 57,795 73 3 Blake Dawson Waldron 51,130 68 4 Linklaters 32,451 8 5 Bell Gully 31,440 35 6 Slaughter and May 29,299 5 7 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 25,761 45 8 Gilbert + Tobin 25,528 30 9 Minter Ellison 24,868 62 10 Clifford Chance 22,651 16 11 Allen & Overy 17,908 5 12 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 16,905 4 13 Hengeler Mueller 16,610 2 14 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 16,157 5 15 Berwin Leighton Paisner 16,147 2 mergermarket league table (by volume) of legal advisers advising on announced transactions in Australasia in the period 01 January 2006 31 December 2006 (1) 1 Freehills 81,762 86 2 Allens Arthur Robinson 57,795 73 3 Blake Dawson Waldron 51,130 68 4 Minter Ellison 24,868 62 5 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 25,761 45 6 Bell Gully 31,440 35 7 Deacons 3,471 34 8 Clayton Utz 11,035 32 9 Gilbert + Tobin 25,528 30 10 Baker & McKenzie 9,630 30 11 Chapman Tripp 3,630 28 12 Clifford Chance 22,651 16 13 McCullough Robertson 3,539 15 14 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 7,165 10 15 DLA Piper 2,492 10 ** Australasia includes Australia, Fiji, Guam, New Zeeland, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tonga. 3
GREATER CHINA***: transactions in Greater China in the period 01 January 2006 31 December 2006 (1) 1 Linklaters 14,303 34 2 Baker & McKenzie 13,752 29 3 Slaughter and May 12,834 18 4 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 9,633 37 5 Davis Polk & Wardwell 9,510 6 6 LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae 8,913 3 7 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz, Stibbe 7,467 11 8 Clifford Chance 7,217 20 9 Sullivan & Cromwell 6,952 6 10 Haiwen & Partners 5,970 10 11 Chen & Lin 5,620 6 12 King & Wood 5,417 12 13 Allen & Gledhill 5,160 5 14 Jones Day 5,115 24 15 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 4,587 9 mergermarket league table (by volume) of legal advisers advising on announced transactions in Greater China in the period 01 January 2006 31 December 2006 (1) 1 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 9,633 37 2 Linklaters 14,303 34 3 Baker & McKenzie 13,752 29 4 Jones Day 5,115 24 5 Clifford Chance 7,217 20 6 Slaughter and May 12,834 18 7 King & Wood 5,417 12 8 Lee and Li 3,973 12 9 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz, Stibbe 7,467 11 10 LCS & Partners 1,942 11 11 Haiwen & Partners 5,970 10 12 Simmons & Simmons 2,944 10 13 DeHeng Law Offices 2,256 10 14 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 4,587 9 15 Jun He Law Office 1,849 9 *** Greater China includes mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. 4
ASIA-PACIFIC (EX JAPAN): transactions in Asia-Pacific (ex Japan) in the period 01 January 2006 31 December 2006 (1) 1 Freehills 83,276 89 2 Linklaters 59,817 55 3 Allens Arthur Robinson 57,905 75 4 Slaughter and May 54,469 27 5 Blake Dawson Waldron 51,130 68 6 Allen & Overy 37,480 25 7 Clifford Chance 33,940 48 8 Bell Gully 31,440 35 9 Sullivan & Cromwell 29,179 15 10 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 28,027 50 11 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 26,696 51 12 Gilbert + Tobin 25,528 30 13 Minter Ellison 25,012 63 14 Baker & McKenzie 24,998 72 15 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 23,408 13 16 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 22,321 11 17 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz, Stibbe 19,729 18 18 Hengeler Mueller 18,010 4 19 Allen & Gledhill 17,741 35 20 Davis Polk & Wardwell 17,512 10 5
mergermarket league table (by volume) of legal advisers advising on announced transactions in Asia-Pacific (ex Japan) in the period 01 January 2006 31 December 2006 (1) 1 Freehills 83,276 89 2 Allens Arthur Robinson 57,905 75 3 Baker & McKenzie 24,998 72 4 Blake Dawson Waldron 51,130 68 5 Minter Ellison 25,012 63 6 Linklaters 59,817 55 7 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 26,696 51 8 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 28,027 50 9 Clifford Chance 33,940 48 10 Jones Day 15,765 38 11 Bell Gully 31,440 35 12 Allen & Gledhill 17,741 35 13 Deacons 3,471 35 14 Clayton Utz 11,139 34 15 Wong Partnership 5,890 31 16 Gilbert + Tobin 25,528 30 17 Chapman Tripp 3,630 28 18 Slaughter and May 54,469 27 19 Allen & Overy 37,480 25 20 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 13,529 25 6
Notes to Editors 1. Criteria: The year end 2006 house league tables are based on announced transactions (where the bidder or target or parent of either is from the country or region to which the table refers), over USD 5m in the period from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006. Deals with undisclosed deal values are included where the target's turnover exceeds USD 10m. Activities excluded from the league tables include property transactions and restructurings where the ultimate shareholders interests are not changed. About mergermarket mergermarket is part of The Mergermarket Group which has over 400 employees worldwide and regional head offices in Hong Kong, London and New York. mergermarket is an unparalleled mergers and acquisitions (M&A) intelligence service, unique for its provision of origination intelligence to the investment banking, legal, private equity, acquisition finance, public relation and corporate markets. With an unrivalled network of analysts covering M&A in Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, mergermarket generates proprietary intelligence and delivers it on its mergermarket.com platform and by real-time email alerts to subscribers. This wealth of intelligence, together with a series of historical deal databases, individual and house league tables, profiles and editorial have proven time and time again that this product can and does generate real revenues for clients. This is confirmed by the fact that mergermarket s services are used by over 1,000 of the world s foremost advisory firms to assist in their origination process. Visit us at: www.mergermarket.com Contact information: Carrie Ho (deal queries, submissions etc) carrie.ho@mergermarket.com Tel: + 852 2158 9725 Elisabeth Nygren (PR) elisabeth.nygren@mergermarket.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7059 6151 7