Deals of the week - July 9 2012

July 08 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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