Type of Deal |
Value |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
Acquistion |
$6.93 billion |
Apollo Global Management |
ADT Corporation |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
Acquisition |
$3.8 billion |
NBCUniversal; Comcast Corporate |
DreamWorks Animation |
Davis, Polk & Wardwell: Neil Barr |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
Acquisition |
$2.9 billion |
BCE |
Manitoba Telecom Services |
Aikins MacAulay & Thorvaldson; Stikeman Elliott: John Lorito & Katy Pitch |
|
Acquisition of 56% interest |
$2.65 billion |
China Molybdenum Co |
Freeport-McMoRan; Tenke Fungurume mine |
Davis, Polk & Wardwell: Kathleen Ferrell & Anne McGinnis |
|
Stock offering 6.25% |
$1.5 billion |
Citigroup |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
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Merger |
$1.4 billion |
Dada Nexus |
JD Daojia |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
|
Acquisition |
$1.35 billion |
JAB Beech |
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice |
Acquisition |
$1.1 billion |
TiVo |
Rovi Corporation |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: Sean Shimamoto |
Cooley |
Acquisition |
$1.1 billion |
XIO Group |
JD Power & Associates; McGraw Hill Financial |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
Shearman & Sterling |
Acquisition of 26.21% stake |
$1 billion |
Brookfield Asset Mangament; BRE Colombia Investments |
ISAGEN SA ESP |
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero Du & Uría: Claudia Barrero |
|
Global bond offering 2.5% bonds due 2026 |
$1 billion |
Province Ontario |
Underwriter |
Shearman & Sterling: Laurence Crouch, Elleen O'Pray & Kyle Phillips |
Davis, Polk & Wardwell |
Acquisition of 67.19% stake |
$892 million |
Petrobras Argentina |
Pampa Energía |
Davis, Polk & Wardwell: Kathleen Ferrell, Caroline Dayton & Sam Peperstraete |
|
Acquisition |
$820 million |
Veritas Capital |
Verisk Health; Verisk Analytics |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
McCarter & English; Davis, Polk & Wardwell |
Acquisition |
$815 million |
Gannett Co |
Tribune Publishing Company |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: Jessica Hough |
Unsolicited |
Merger |
Undisclosed |
AlliedBarton Security Services |
Universal Services of America |
Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom: Gavin White; Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton |
Acquistion |
Undisclosed |
Open Text Corporation |
Hewlett Packard Company |
Fenwick & West: Will Skinner & Andrew Kim |
|
Type of Deal |
Value |
Issuer/Borrower |
Lead managers/arrangers |
Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) |
Adviser to lead managers (tax) |
Notes offering |
$5 billion |
The Emirate of Abu Dhabi |
JP Morgan; Bank of America; Citigroup |
Davis, Polk & Wardwell: John Paton, Alon Gurfinkel & Veronica Orecharova |
|
Senior notes issuance |
$4 billion |
Nederlandse Waterschapsbank Bank |
Davis, Polk & Wardwell: John Paton, Alon Gurfinkel & Omer Harel |
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Debt tender offer for over 68% notes |
$3.9 billion |
GE Capital Funding Company |
Deutche Bank, Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Canada |
McCarthy Tétrault: Gabrielle Richards & Ryan Walker |
|
SEC-Registered senior notes offering due 2023 |
$3 billion |
General Motors Financial Company |
Deutsche Bank Securities; Banco Bradesco BBI SA; Goldman Sachs & Co; Loyds Securities; Morgan Stanley & Co |
Davis, Polk & Wardwell: Lucy Farr & Sam Van |
|
SEC-Registered offfering of 15 million shares |
$1.2 billion |
Walgreens Boots Alliance |
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co |
Davis, Polk & Wardwell: Lucy Farr |