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Deals of the week - August 27 2012

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Acquisition

$7.3 billion

Aetna

Coventry Health Care

Jones Day / Davis Polk & Wardwell

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Deborah Paul

Merger

$3.7 billion

Hudson City Bancorp

M&T Bank Corporation

Sullivan & Cromwell

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Joshua Holmes

Merger

$2.3 billion

Hertz Global Holdings

Dollar Thrifty Automotive

Cravath, Swaine & Moore / Debevoise & Plimpton / Jones Day

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton - Jason Factor

Acquisition

$1.2 billion

Pacific Industrial Services BidCo

Spotless

Gilbert + Tobin

Clayton Utz

Acquisition

$1 billion

Bain Capital Partners

Genpact

Ropes & Gray

Cravath, Swaine & Moore / Nishith Desai Associates

Acquisition

$577 million

Silver Lake

Global Blue Luxembourg Holdings

WongPartnership

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Joint Venture

$337 million

SK Innovation

Continental AG

Kim & Chang / WongPartnership

Acquisition

$285 million

FMC Technologies

Pure Energy Services

Stikeman Elliott - Douglas Richardson / Vinson & Elkins

Blake, Cassels & Graydon

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Notes Offering

$3 billion

Rio Tinto

HSBC / Morgan Stanley / RBS / BNP Paribas / RBC / SG Americas / Standard Chartered

Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton

Notes Offering

$2.5 billion

PepsiCo

Citigroup / Morgan Stanley / RBS

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Avishai Shachar

Jones Day

Subordinated Notes Offering

$2 billion

UBS AG

UBS Securities / Citigroup / Goldman, Sachs / J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch / Morgan Stanley / RBS / Wells Fargo

Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton

High-Yield Notes Offering

$1.2 billion

Continental Resources

Merrill Lynch

Latham & Watkins

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus

Notes Offering

$750 million

ICICI Bank

Citigroup / HSBC / J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch / Standard Chartered

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Alon Gurfinkel

Senior Notes Offering

$500 million

Moody's

Citigroup / Merrill Lynch

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus

Dribble-Out Offering

$500 million

Westar Energy

BNY Mellon

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Hunton & Williams

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