Debevoise & Plimpton and Linklaters have taken lead roles on AIG’s $6bn (£3.8bn) placement of shares in its Hong Kong spin-off, AIA Group, reports The Asian Lawyer.

Debevoise took the lead for for insurance giant AIG, which sold the shares to institutional investors on 5 March as a way of partially paying back the US Government for a $182bn (£116bn) bailout in 2008, following the onset of the global financial crisis.