Deals of the week - January 23 2012

January 23 2012

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Acquisition	$7.3 billion	SMFG	RBS Aviation	Milbank Tweed	Clifford Chance
Acquisition	$3.16 billion	Pembina Pipeline	Provident Energy	Blake, Cassels & Graydon / Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison	Norton Rose Canada / Dorsey and Whitney
Acquisition	$2.85 billion	Apache	Cordillera Energy Partners III	Jefferies & Co / Thompson & Knight	Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co
Merger	$2.2 billion	Abacus Property Group	Abacus Storage Fund	Freehills	Freehills
Acquisition	$1.46 billion	Cinven	CPA (Intermediate Capital Group)	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	DLA Piper
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Rights Offering	$473.2 million	China Communications Services	CITIC Securities	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer / Jingtian & Gongcheng	Davis Polk & Wardwell
High Yield Bond Offering	$420 million	Ardagh		Shearman & Sterling - Jeffrey Tate & Craig Gibian
Convertible Notes Offering	$250 million	PHH Corporation	JP Morgan / Merrill Lynch / Pierce Fenner & Smith	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Po Sit & Nicole Field

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