Deals of the week - September 24 2012

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Deals of the week - September 24 2012

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Acquisition

$7.6 billion

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Alibaba (Yahoo!)

Sullivan & Cromwell

Acquisition

$1.03 billion

JSC Russian Railways

PSA Peugeot Citroën (GEFCO)

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Bredin Prat - Yves Rutschmann

Acquisition

$977 million

PTT Mining

Sakari Resources

Allen & Gledhill

WongPartnership

Acquisition

$279 million

Teleflex

LMA International

WongPartnership / Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Shearman & Sterling / Allen & Gledhill

Share Subscription Deed

$237 million

Shandong Gold

Focus Minerals

Minter Ellison

King & Wood Mallesons

Acquisition

$137 million

Wesco Aircraft Holdings

Interfast

Latham & Watkins / Stikeman Elliott

Gowlings Lafleur Henderson

Acquisition

$130 million

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. / Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company / Coastwood Senior Housing Partners

Sunrise Senior Living Management Company

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - T. Eiko Stange

Partnership Agreement

$118 million

Synutra

Sodiaal

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Acquisition

Undisclosed

KRG Capital

Convergint Technologies

Hogan Lovells - Daniel Davidson, Stephen Giordano / Stikeman Elliott - Marie-Andrée Beaudry, Éric Lévesque

Jones Day

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

"Covered Bonds Offering

"

$2.5 billion

Royal Bank of Canada

Morgan Stanley / RBS

Morrison & Foerster / Sullivan & Cromwell

Allen & Overy / Davis Polk & Wardwell

"SEC-Registered Notes Offering

"

$2 billion

RBS

RBS Securities / Citigroup / Wells Fargo / BMO / BNY Mellon / CIBC / HSBC / nabSecurities / RBC / TD Securities / UBS

Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton

Shearman & Sterling

Vendor Financing

$1.2 billion

Telefónica

China Development Bank / Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

Uría Menéndez / White & Case / De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

Notes Offering

$1.15 billion

Mexichem

White & Case / Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Farber, Yuliya Epifantseva

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton / Ritch Mueller

Notes Offering

$1 billion

DBS Bank

BNYM

WongPartnership

Schedule B Debt Offering

$750 million

The Korea Development Bank

Credit Suisse / HSBC / J.P. Morgan Securities / Morgan Stanley / RBS

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton / Jipyong & Jisung

Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton

Senior High-yield Bond Issue

$150 million

Sound Global

Deutsche Bank / HSBC

Troutman Sanders / WongPartnership

Sidley Austin / Zhong Lun

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