Alibaba has announced it will seek to raise $4.5 billion through a bond issuance after JD.com’s $1.75 billion deal.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has advised long-term client JD.com on its latest debt issuance. Latham & Watkins and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton are advising underwriters to the JD.com issuance while Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Haitong Securities Co. and UBS Group AG are bookrunners of the bond issuance.