Deals of the week - May 21 2012

May 20, 2012

TYPE OF DEAL	VALUE	ACQUIRER	TARGET	ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX)	ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX)
Acquisition	$4.08 billion	Macquarie European / Infinity Investments / British Columbia / MEAG MUNICH ERGO	Open Grid Europe		Hengeler Mueller - Stefanie Beinert
Acquisition	$3.9 billion	ABB	Thomas & Betts	Kirkland & Ellis	Davis Polk & Wardwell
Acquisition	$2.2 billion	Agilent Technologies	Dako (EQTV)	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton / Kromann Reumert	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Neil Barr / Accura
Acquisition	$2.2 billion	China Guangdong Nuclear Power	Extract Resources	Ashurst / Stikeman Elliott / Minter Ellison	Clayton Utz
Acquisition	$1.9 billion	Bright Food	Weetabix	Linklaters / Stikeman Elliott	Mills & Reeve / Weil Gotshal & Manges
Acquisition	$678 million	Perron	Centro Galleria / Centro The Glen / Centro Colonnades	King & Wood Mallesons	Freehills
Acquisition	$605 million	Nucor	Skyline Steel (ArcelorMittal)		Shearman & Sterling - Doug McFadyen
Acquisition	$238 million	China Resources Gas	AEI China Gas	King & Wood Mallesons	Clifford Chance
PIPE	$187 million	JP Morgan	Technicolor	Gide Loyrette Nouel / Latham & Watkins	Davis Polk & Wardwell
Acquisition	$136 million	Cameco	Nukem	Hengeler Mueller - Matthias Scheifele
Acquisition	$100 million	Crestview Partners	Silver Creek Oil & Gas	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Mary Conway	Vinson & Elkins
Merger	Undisclosed	IMX Resources	Continental Nickel	Stikeman Elliott / Finlaysons	Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt / Corrs Chambers Westgarth
TYPE OF DEAL	VALUE	ISSUER / BORROWER	LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS	ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER	ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS
Senior Notes Offering	$1 billion	Discovery Communications	J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch	Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr	Davis Polk & Wardwell
Common Stock Offering	$519 million	SXC Health Solutions	J.P. Morgan / Barclays	Sidley Austin / Heenan Blaikie / Lackowicz & Hoffman	Davis Polk & Wardwell / Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Senior Notes Offering	$500 million	Medicis Pharmaceutical	Deutsche Bank / J.P. Morgan	Latham & Watkins	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr
First-Mortgage Bond Offering	$300 million	Westar Energy	BNP Paribas / Citigroup / J.P. Morgan	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg	Hunton & Williams
Initial Public Offering	$100 million	Edwards Group	Barclays / Goldman Sachs / Deutsche Bank	Weil, Gotshal & Manges / Maples & Calder	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan

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