Deals of the week - March 26 2012

March 25 2012

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Acquisition	$6.8 billion	United Parcel Service	TNT Express	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer - Machiel Lambooij, Job van der Pol	Allen & Overy
Acquisition	$6.15 billion	Glencore International	Viterra	King & Wood Mallesons - Justin Cherrington / Bennett Jones	Torys / Ashurst / Sidley Austin
Acquisition	$900 million	Richardson International	Viterra	Stikeman Elliott - John Lorito, Francesco Gucciardo
Acquisition	$623.1 million	Omega Pharma	GSK (European portfolio of Healthcare OTC products)		Hengeler Mueller / Slaughter & May / Bonelli Erede
Acquisition	$449 million	NEC	Convergys	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Avishai Shachar, Anthony Oliva	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Deborah Paul, Rachel Carlton
Acquisition	$180 million	Zynga	OMGPOP	Cooleys
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Notes Offering	$2.5 billion	Rio Tinto	Citigroup / Credit Suisse / Deutsche Bank / J.P. Morgan / ANZ / Credit Agricole / Mitsubishi UFJ / SG Americas	Linklaters	Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton, Alon Gurfinkel
Notes Offering	$1.1 billion	Medtronic	Deutsche Bank / Merrill Lynch / UBS	Fredrikson & Byron	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon, Juelle Gomes
Vendor Financing	$375 million	Telefónica	China Development Bank	White & Case / Uría Menéndez / De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Senior Notes Offering	$300 million	AK Steel	Merrill Lynch / J.P. Morgan / Citigroup / Credit Suisse / Deutsche Bank / Wells Fargo		Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon, Ethan Goldman
Common Units Offering	$288 million	AmeriGas	Wells Fargo / Barclays / Citigroup / Credit Suisse / Merrill Lynch / UBS	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Neil Barr, Changsheng Song
Common Stock Offering	$145 million	XPO Logistics	Morgan Stanley / Deutsche Bank / Jefferies & Company	Cravath, Swaine & Moore	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell, Isaac MacDonald

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