Deals of the week - July 2 2012

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Deals of the week - July 2 2012

TYPE OF DEAL

VALUE

ACQUIRER

TARGET

ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX)

ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX)

Acquisition

$20.1 billion

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Grupo Modelo

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom / Sullivan & Cromwell / Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Cravath Swaine & Moore

Acquisition

$5.35 billion

Petronas

Progress Energy

Norton Rose

Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer

Acquisition

$3.8 billion

MediaTek

Mstar Semiconductor

Jones Day

Lee & Li

Acquisition

$1.9 billion

Rift

Veolia

Hogan Lovells

Simmons & Simmons

Acquisition

$1.2 billion

Microsoft

Yammer

Perkins Coie

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe

Acquisition

$500 million

Oriental Financial Group

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell

Acquisition

$315 million

Affymetrix

eBioscience

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg

DLA Piper

Acquisition

$237.6 million

Marubeni

ACR

Allen & Gledhill

WongPartnership

TYPE OF DEAL

VALUE

ISSUER / BORROWER

LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS

ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER

ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS

Notes Offering

$1.5 billion

Caterpillar

Citigroup / J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch

Sidley Austin

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell

Refinancing

$1.08 billion

Loy Yang B Power Station (International Power / GDF Suez / Mitsui & Co)

King & Wood Mallesons

Freehills

Secondary Offering

$1 billion

IHS

Goldman Sachs

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan

Sullivan & Cromwell

Global Bond Offering

$1 billion

Province of Ontario

Deutsche Bank / Goldman Sachs / J.P. Morgan / TD Securities

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Medium-term Note Programme

$630.7 million

Mewah International

DBS Bank

WongPartnership

Allen & Gledhill

Notes Offering

$250 million

Brasil Foods

BB Securities / HSBC / Itau BBA / Santander

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett / Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon, Yuliya Epifantseva

Term Loan Facility

$250 million

NCI Building Systems

Credit Suisse

Debevoise & Plimpton

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus

Entitlement Offer

$225 million

Billabong

Goldman Sachs / Deutsche Bank

Allens / Sidley Austin

King & Wood Mallesons / Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

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