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 |
Deals of the week - March 26 2012
