Deals of the week - May 7 2012

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Deals of the week - May 7 2012

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Acquisition

$5.3 billion

Energy Transfer Partners

Sunoco

Latham & Watkins - Timothy Fenn, Laurence Stein

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Eiko Stange / Michael Sabbah

Acquisition

$2.2 billion

Starlight Investments

TransGlobe Apartment REIT

Cassels, Brock & Blackwell / Bloom Lanys / Stikeman Elliott

Blake, Cassels & Graydon

Acquisition

$2 billion

Wolverine Worldwide / Blum Capital / Golden Gate

Collective Brands

Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer

Acquisition

$1.3 billion

Terra Firma

Four Seasons Health Care

Slaughter & May

Macfarlanes

Acquisition

$1.02 billion

Glory

Talaris Topco

Hengeler Mueller / Slaughter & May / Bredin Prat / Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Clifford Chance

Acquisition

$300 million

Microsoft

Barnes & Noble

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Acquisition

$137 million

Pramerica

215 Adelaide Street

King & Wood Mallesons

Allens Arthur Robinson

Joint Venture

Undisclosed

Keppel

iseek Communications

King & Wood Mallesons

Mike Madden

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Leveraged Acquisition Financing

$3.8 billion

Hologic

Goldman Sachs

Brown Rudnick

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Global Bond Offering

$1.5 billion

Province of British Columbia

CIBC / HSBC / RBC / Scotia

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Senior Notes Offering

$750 million

Aetna

Barclays / Citigroup / Credit Suisse / Merrill Lynch

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, William Curran

Secured Revolving Credit Facility

$652 million

NXP

Morgan Stanley / Barclays

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus, Changsheng Song

Construction Financing

$300 million

Stockbridge Real Estate

JP Morgan

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Cahill Gordon & Reindel

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