Deals of the week - December 9 2013

December 09 2013

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Merger	Undisclosed	Pfizer Limited	Wyeth Limited	EY	Davis Polk & Wardwell
Acquisition	Undisclosed	Vicente Capital Partners	iBwave Solutions	Stikeman Elliott - Philippe Kattan, Frank Mathieu
Acquisition	Undisclosed	Dynamic Precision Group (Carlyle Group)	Unison Engine Components (8 manufacturing facilities)	Latham & Watkins; PwC; Stikeman Elliott - Frank Mathieu


Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Convertible senior notes offering	$205 million	RPM International	Wells Fargo; Goldman, Sachs	Calfee, Halter & Griswold	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Ankur Dalal; Squire Sanders
Initial public offering	$80.5 million	Xencor	Credit Suisse Securities; Leerink Swann	Cooley	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, Catherine Paskoff Chang
Common stock offering	$46 million	Medallion Financial Corporation	Morgan Stanley; Keefe, Bruyette & Woods; Sandler O'Neill		Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus, Arie Rubenstein, Juelle Gomes

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