Deals of the week - August 27 2012

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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