Deals of the week - July 9 2012

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Deals of the week - July 9 2012

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Merger

$5.47 billion

Volkswagen

Porsche

Clifford Chance

Hengeler Mueller / Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Acquisition

$5.3 billion

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Amylin Pharmaceuticals (AstraZeneca)

Kirkland & Ellis

Davis Polk & Wardwell / Covington & Burling

Acquisition

$2.5 billion

EverBank Financial

Business Property Lending

Sullivan & Cromwell

Gotshal & Manges

Acquisition

$840 million

Ingram Micro

Brightpoint

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg

Blank Rome

Acquisition

$820 million

One Equity

M*Modal

Dechert

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Acquisition

$727 million

KKR

WMF

Hengeler Mueller

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Australian Food Group (Pacific Equity)

Nestlé (Peters Ice Cream)

Clayton Utz

King & Wood Mallesons

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Capvis

Ondal Group

Hengeler Mueller - Martin Klein

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Federal-Mogul

BorgWarner (BERU)

Hengeler Mueller - Stefanie Beinert

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Notes Offering

$2.25 billion

Comcast

BNP Paribas / Citigroup / Merrill Lynch / Wells Fargo

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg

Cahill Gordon & Reindel

Notes Offering

$1.5 billion

Oesterreichische Kontrollbank

BNP Paribas / Deutsche Bank / Goldman Sachs / J.P. Morgan

Shearman & Sterling / Pöch Krassnigg

Davis Polk & Wardwell

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