Type of deal |
Value |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
Acquisition |
$49 billion |
British American Tobacco |
Reynolds American |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Herbert Smith Freehills |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges; Moore & Van Allen |
Acquisition |
$30 billion |
Johnson & Johnson |
Actelion |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Homburg AG; SextonRiley |
Niederer Kraft & Frey; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Slaughter & May |
Acquisition |
$17.9 billion |
Reckitt Benckiser |
Mead Johnson Nutition |
Davis Polk & Wardwell: Michael Mollerus; Linklaters |
Kirkland & Ellis |
Acqiuisition of remaining stake |
$9.3 billion |
Oneok |
Oneok Partners |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: David Levy |
Andrews Kurth Kenyon |
Acquisition |
$6.4 billion |
AltaGas |
WGL Holdings |
Stikeman Elliot: David Weekes & Julie D'Avignon; Vinson & Elkins |
Kirkland & Ellis; Covington & Burling |
Joint venture |
$4.2 billion |
Intel Corporation & TPG Capital |
McAfee |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
|
Acquisition |
$3.7 billion |
Cisco |
AppDynamics |
Fenwick & West: Ora Grinberg |
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
Acquisition |
$3.3 billion |
SoftBank Group Corp |
Fortress Investment Group |
Davis Polk & Wardwell: David Schnable & Rachel Lerner |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: David Polster |
Acquisition |
$3.2 billion |
Noble Energy |
Clayton Williams Energy |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: Brian Krause & David Rievman |
Latham & Watkins |
Acquisition |
$2.85 billion |
Starwood Capital Group |
Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust |
Stikeman Elliot; Kirkland & Ellis |
Goodmans; Vinson & Elkins |
Acquisition |
$1.65 billion |
Hologic |
Cynosure |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: Nathaniel Carden |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz: Jodi Schwartz |
Acquisition of a 40% stake |
$1.3 billion |
KKL |
Telxius from Telefónica |
More details in cover story (p39) |
More details in cover story (p39) |
Joint venture with investors |
$1.1 billion |
GIC Pte. |
More than 2.1 million square feet of office assets in the Washington, DC metropolitan area |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
|
Acquisition |
$700 million |
Heineken |
Brasil Kirin |
Davis Polk & Wardwell: Avishai Shachar & Patrick Sigmon; Mundie Advogados: Ana Cristina de Moraes & Guilherme Ribas |
TozziniFreire Advogados: Jun Oyafuso Makuta, Daniel Oliveira Andreoli, Fernande Eduardo Serec; Allen & Overy Japan: Nick Wall |
Acquisition |
$690 million |
An affiliate of Veritas Capital |
The government IT services business of Harris Corporation |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
|
Acquisition |
$170 million |
Communications Sales & Leasing |
Hunt Telecommunications |
Davis Polk & Wardwell: Michael Mollerus |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Fabric from Twitter |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: Gavin White |
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Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
PwC |
GE Tax Services Team |
Davis Polk & Warwell: Rachel Klienberg |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
BlackRock |
First Reserve Energy Infrastructure Funds |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: Victor Hollender |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Validus Holdings |
The Crop Risk Services business of Archer Daniels Midland Company |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: Jessica Hough |
|
Type of deal |
Value |
Issuer/Borrower |
Lead managers/arrangers |
Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) |
Adviser to lead managers (tax) |
Senior notes offering |
$3 billion |
Morgan Stanley |
Morgan Stanley & Co |
Davis Polk & Wardwell: Po Sit & Andrew Smith |
|
Senior notes offering |
$2.5 billion |
General Motors Financial Company |
Davis Polk & Wardwell: Lucy Farr, Caroline Dayton & Sam Van Peperstraete |
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Senior notes offering |
$500 million |
Crown Castle International Corp |
JP Morgan Securities;Barclays Capital;Mizuho; RBC Capital Markets; TD Securities |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
