Deals of the week - February 27 2012

February 27 2012

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Acquisition	$1.25 billion	URS	Flint Energy	Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt	Bennett Jones
Acquisition	$1.09 billion	SBA Communications	Mobilitie	Greenberg Traurig	Goodwin Procter
Acquisition	$139 million	AWE	Genting Oil Natuna / Sanyen Oil and Gas	WongPartnership / Mallesons Stephen Jacques
Acquisition	Undisclosed	Wells Fargo	BNP Paribas	Sullivan & Cromwell	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Buyout Fund	$8.74 billion	BC Partners		Weil, Gotshal & Manges / Clifford Chance
Notes Offering	$3 billion	Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	Merrill Lynch / J.P. Morgan	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Arie Rubenstein	Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Secured Term Loan Facility	$475 million	NXP	Morgan Stanley / Merrill Lynch	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus
Multicuurency Medium-term Note Programme	$397 million	Cambridge Industrial Trust	ANZ Bank	WongPartnership - Colin Ong, Trevor Chuan	Allen & Gledhill
High-yield Bond	$300 million	MMI International	Credit Suisse / J.P. Morgan / UBS	WongPartnership
Amendment and Restatement of Credit Facilities	$280 million	Windstream	J.P. Morgan	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Brian Radigan
Follow-on Common Stock Offering	$103.5 million	GSV Capital	Citigroup		Davis Polk & Wardwell - Mary Conway, Kay Ng

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