Deals of the week - October 14 2013

International Tax Review is part of Legal Benchmarking Limited, 1-2 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8ND

Copyright © Legal Benchmarking Limited and its affiliated companies 2026

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement

Deals of the week - October 14 2013

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Merger

$4.4 billion

Millicom International Cellular (Colombia Móvil)

UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones

Brigard & Urrutia / Uría Menéndez / Davis Polk & Wardwell

Acquisition

$2.2 billion

Darling International

Vion Food Group (Vion Ingredients)

K&L Gates / Clifford Chance

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

Acquisition

$1.35 billion

Solvay

The Chemlogics Group

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Neil Barr

Merger

$1.1 billion

Industrial Developments International

Verde Realty

Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Scott Sontag

Acquisition

$458.9 million

Ultrapar Participações

Imifarma Produtos Farmacêuticos e Cosméticos

Lefosse Advogados

Acquisition

$378.6 million

Saputo

Warrnambool

Stikeman Elliott / Maddocks

Acquisition

$315 million

KIK Custom Products

Chemtura Corporation

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Acquisition

$280 million

Hochschild Mining

International Minerals

Stikeman Elliott - John O'Connor

Axium Law Group

Acquisition

$158 million

SolarCity

Zep Solar

Fenwick & West - Ronald Schrotenboer, Idan Netser

Acquisition

$130 million

Vonage

Vocalocity

Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Stuart Goldring, Chayim Neubort

DLA Piper

Acquisition

$97 million

Huntington Bancshares

Camco Financial

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Joshua Holmes

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Advent International

P2 Energy Solutions

Stikeman Elliott / Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Acquisition

Undisclosed

MAX Automation

AIM Group

Allen & Overy - Asmus Mihm

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Respol Group

Forchem Oy

Uría Menéndez

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Senior Secured Credit Facilities

$8.6 billion

Hilton

Deutsche Bank / Merrill Lynch / JP Morgan / Morgan Stanley / Goldman Sachs / Wells Fargo

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Senior Notes Offering

$4.5 billion

General Motors Company

Citigroup

Jenner & Block

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon

Preferred Stock Offering

$862.5 million

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley / Goldman Sachs / JP Morgan / Merrill Lynch / UBS / Wells Fargo

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Po Sit

Sidley Austin

Convertible Bond Issue

$642.5 million

CapitaLand

Credit Suisse

Allen & Overy / Allen & Gledhill

Linklaters / WongPartnership

Senior Notes Offering

$500 million

Marsh & McLennan Companies

Goldman Sachs / HSBC / Merrill Lynch / Deutsche Bank

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr

Willkie Farr & Gallagher

more across site & shared bottom lb ros

More from across our site

The deal, reportedly worth $400m, will add Svalner Atlas’s 50-partner Nordic and Benelux presence to Ryan’s rapidly growing global footprint
The combined firm, which comprises over 1,400 lawyers, will boast robust tax practices in both the UK and US
Cascading tax reform, bullish foreign investment and vigorous TP audits have made Italy’s tax advisory market dynamic and stiffly competitive
As ITR data reveals that 2025 saw more than double the amount of private client hires than 2024, it seems firms are jostling for position
The US multinational paid 20% more tax in 2025 than 2024, it said; in other news, more than 25,000 HMRC staff have been upskilled on AI
Belt and Road Initiative countries face tax incentive conundrums due to pillar two, but relatively few countries would seek to scrap the project, ITR has heard
Hany Elnaggar examines how the OECD’s global minimum tax is reshaping the GCC’s investment incentive landscape, shifting the region from rate-based competition toward substance-driven economic positioning
The acquisition of a two-partner practice from Stephenson Harwood means that Charles Russell Speechlys has the largest private client team in Asia, the firm claimed
Complex and constantly shifting rules on global mobility mean ‘the risk is too great’ for staff to work abroad on personal time, EY’s Maureen Flood tells ITR
While it’s great that the OECD is alive to multinationals’ fears of being caught in a compliance trap, the ‘common understanding’ illustrates a worrying lack of readiness
Gift this article