Type of deal |
Valuer |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
M & A |
£2.18 billion |
Gala |
Coral Eurobet |
Ashurst, John Watson, UK |
Latham & Watkins, UK |
M & A |
$2.8 billion |
Gas Natural SDG SA |
Endesa SA |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Javier Gazulla and Maria Mera, Spain |
Clifford Chance, Jose Ignacio Jimenez-Blanco, Spain |
M & A |
$1.3 billion |
St. Jude Medical |
Advanced Neuromodulation Systems |
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Stephen Tolles, US |
Baker Botts, Steve Marcus and James Raborn, US |
M & A |
$1 billion |
Golden Gate Capital |
Geac Computer |
Borden Ladner Gervais, Larissa Tkachenko, Canada |
Blake, Cassels and Graydon, Jeffrey Trossman Paul Stepak, US, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Sally Thurston and Ben Handler, US |
M & A |
$9.2 billion offer |
Barrick Gold Corporation bid |
Placer Dome |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Michael Schler, Sharon Mendelson, US |
|
M & A |
$2 billion |
NSG |
Pilkington |
Allen & Overy, UK |
Slaughter and May, Richard Carson, UK |
M & A |
Undisclosed |
Southern Cross, the nursing home operator owned by Blackstone |
Ashbourne Homes |
Clifford Chance, UK |
Simmons & Simmons, Nick Cronkshaw, Darren Oswick, UK |
M & A |
€1.035 billion ($1.2 billion) |
Telenor |
Vodafone, Sweden |
Allen & Overy, Sweden |
Linklaters, Mats Anderson, Odile Fallenius, Sweden |
M & A |
$3.2 billion |
Allergan |
Inamed |
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Andrew Bogen, US |
Morrison & Foerster, Raj Tanden, US |
M & A |
Undisclosed |
IBM |
Collation |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Christian Brause, US |
Fenwick & West, US |
M & A |
€1.85 billion ($2.168 billion) |
Blackstone Group International and Lion Capital LLP |
European Beverages division of Cadbury Schweppes (CSEB) |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, UK |
Slaughter and May, Sarah Luder, UK |
M & A |
$6.9 billion |
Cisco Systems |
Scientific-Atlanta |
Fenwick & West, Ron Schrotenboer, Timothy Fitzgibbon, US |
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, US |
M & A |
$1.1 billion |
Deutsche Bahn |
The Brink's company's BAX Global operating unit |
Shearman & Sterling, Germany |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Stephen Gordon, US |
M & A |
Undisclosed |
Link Theory Holdings |
Schleicher Holding GmbH, the parent company of Rosner GmbH & Co. Avantgardistische Mode, Ingolstadt, Germany |
Haarman & Hemmelrath, Jürgen Fahrenberg and Dr Florian Eisele, Germany |
Honert Funke Maute Neumayer, Germany |
M & A |
Undisclosed |
Cinven Funds |
AlticeOne |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Antoine Colonna d'Istria and Vincent Daniel-Mayeur, Belgium |
JeantetAssociés, Belgium |
M & A |
$6.8 billion |
Swiss Re |
GE Insurance Solutions |
Herbert Smith, Howard Murray, Lindsay J'Afari-Pak, Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe, Sven-Christian Witt |
|
M & A |
$25 billion |
Boston Scientific |
Guidant |
Shearman & Sterling, Germany |
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Germany |