Deals of the Week

December 09 2009

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Acquisition	£136 million ($222 million)	Palamon Capital Partners	Associated Dental Practices	Slaughter & May Graham Earles
Acquisition	Undisclosed	Alstom/Schneider	Areva Transmission & Distribution	Arsene Taxand Frederic Donnedieu de Vabres, Laurent Partouche & Laurent Mamou
Merger	Undisclosed	Cable Onda	Telecarrier	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Integration	Undisclosed	Aldermore Bank	Absolute Invoice Finance Holdings	SJ Berwin Dominic Adams
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Notes Issue	€750 million ($1.11 billion)	Lottomatica Group	Banca IMI, Calyon Crédit Agricole CIB, The Royal Bank of Scotland & UniCredit Group	Shearman & Sterling
Bond Issue	A$200 million ($185 million)	Commonwealth Property Office Fund	Citigroup		Mallesons Stephen Jaques Richard Snowden

If you would like to raise the profile of your firm, please send deal information to Jack Grocott (jgrocott@euromoneyplc.com).

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