Deals

Deals

DATE

TYPE OF DEAL

VALUE

ACQUIRER

TARGET

HOLDER

ADVISERS TO TARGET

ADVISERS TO ACQUIRER

ADVISERS TO HOLDER

01/08/01

acquisition ($1.6 billion)

£1.1 billion

Gallaher Group, financed by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, HSBC

41.3% stake in Austria Tabak

n/a

Cerha, Hempel & Spiegelfeld, Vienna, Dr Albert Birkner, Edith Hlawati

Gallaher - Simmons & Simmons, London; Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, New York; Banks - Linklaters, London, Ian Bowler, Giles Horridge, Sulivan & Cromwell, New York

n/a

06/08/01

proposed acquisition

£2.8 billion ($4.08 billion)

Valentia Telecom-munications

Eircom

Valentia Consor-tium

Arthur Cox, Dublin, Caroline Devlin, Niamh Caffrey

n/a

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, Francis Sandison, Tom Passingham; Washington, Claude Stansbury, Kevin Cunningham; Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, Gary Friedman; London, Peter Schuur; A&L Goodbody, Dublin, Peter Maher, Andrew Quinn

06/08/01

tax planning and merger implemen-tation

$6.86 billion

Schneider/ Legrand

n/a

n/a

n/a

Andersen Legal, Paris, Frederic Donnedieu de Vabres

n/a

10/08/01

convertible bond issue

$500 million

South African Breweries

n/a

JP Morgan Securities, Cazenove & Co

n/a

Lovells, London, Lyndsey Bainton

Linklaters, London, Martin Lynchehan, Simon Marks

21/08/01

acquisition

undisclosed

Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg

Ely Fund Managers Holdings Ltd

n/a

Wedlake Bell, London, Jack Harper

Norton Rose, London, Jeremy Reynolds

n/a

31/08/01

share sale

$157 million

Enterprise Oil

Petrobras' UK interests

Petrobras

Herbert Smith, London, David Mogford, Neil Warriner

CMS Cameron McKenna, London, Richard Croker

n/a

04/09/01

acquisition

$2.2 billion

Royal Ahold

Alliant Food Service Inc

n/a

Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, Bob Cubitto, Seth Rosen, Rafael Kariyev

White & Case, New York, Mario Fulgieri

n/a

05/09/01

development

£204 million($297.39 million)

The Moor House Limited Partnership Ltd

n/a

n/a

n/a

Herbert Smith, London, Isaac Zailer

n/a

10/09/01

merger / acquisition

$25 billion

Hewlett-Packard Company

Compaq Computer Corporation

n/a

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York, Stuart Finkelstein, Kathy Bristor, Melissa McCann, Patrick Chu

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, Ivan Humphreys, David Gerson, Eileen Marshall

n/a

10/09/01

merger

$4.2 billion

C-MAC Industries Inc

Solectron Corporation

n/a

Stikeman Elliott, Montreal, Frederic Harvey, Luc Bernier; Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, Kathleen Ferrell, Michael Mollerus

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, Ron Roth, Susie Morse; San Francisco, David Hasen; Osler Hoskin & Harcourt

n/a

19/09/01

strategic alliance

$1 billion

Bristol-Myers Squibb

ImClone Systems Incorporated

n/a

Davis Polk & Wardwell, Michael Mollerus, Kathleen Ferrell, Roy Caner

Cravath Swaine & Moore, New York, Stephen Gordon

n/a

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