Deals of the month

Deals of the month

See who has done the tax work on this month’s biggest deals

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

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

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



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