Deals of the week - March 5 2012

March 05, 2012

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Acquisition	$828 million	Kirkbi A/S	Dong Energy		Hengeler Mueller
Acquisition	$334 million	AMD	SeaMicro		Fenwick & West - Larissa Neumann
Acquisition	$309.5 million	Fiera	Natcan	Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt	McCarthy Tétrault
Acquisition	$271 million	Cisco	Lightwire	Fenwick & West - Matthew Noerper
Acquisition	$146.3 million	ShoreTel	M5 Networks	Fenwick & West - Ron Schrotenboer
Acquisition	$140.5 million	Bendigo and Adelaide Bank	Bank of Cyprus	Freehills	King & Wood Mallesons
Acquisition	Undisclosed	SanDisk	FlashSoft		Fenwick & West - Natalie Pardo De Zela
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Registered Notes Offering	$3 billion	ArcelorMittal	J.P. Morgan / Citigroup / Merrill Lynch		Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton, Sarah Joy
Notes Offering	$750 million	Korea Development Bank	BNP Paribas / Citigroup / Deutsche / J.P. Morgan / KDB Asia / RBS	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton / Lee & Ko	Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton, Sarah Joy
Note Issue	$650 million	AGL	Deutsche Bank / ANZ / NAB / Commonwealth BoA	Freehills	King & Wood Mallesons
Notes Offering	$300 million	CSX	J.P. Morgan / UBS	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Una Au	Shearman & Sterling
SEC-registered offering	$250 million	Westar Energy	Barclays / Mitsubishi UFJ / Wells Fargo	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Po Sit, Yuliya Epifantseva	Dewey & LeBoeuf

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