Deals of the week - April 2 2012

April 01 2012

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
All-share Merger	$61.9 billion	Xstrata	Glencore International	King & Wood Mallesons	King & Wood Mallesons
Acquisition	$2 billion	Guggenheim Baseball Management	Los Angeles Dodgers	Foley & Lardner	Sullivan & Cromwell
Strategic Partnership	$2 billion	Mubadala Development	EBX Group	Shearman & Sterling	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell, Michelle Messer, Arie Rubenstein
Acquisition	$681.7 million	PetroChina	Athabasca Oil Sands (MacKay River)	Stikeman Elliott
Acquisition	$500 million	Bausch & Lomb	ISTA Pharmaceuticals	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton	Davis Polk & Wardwell / Greenhill & Co.
Acquisition	$380.2 million	ISPT	CFS Retail Property Trust	Holding Redlich	King & Wood Mallesons
Acquisition	$173 million	Monitise	Clairmail	Sullivan & Cromwell
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Senior Five-Year Revolving Credit Facility	$1.5 billion	Aetna	J.P. Morgan / Citigroup / Merrill Lynch	Davis Polk & Wardwell	Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Ordinary Shares Offering	$1.2 billion	Michael Kors Holdings	Morgan Stanley / J.P. Morgan / Goldman Sachs	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison / Harney Westwood & Riegels	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Mary Conway, Lauren Murphey
Refinancing Senior Secured Term Loans	$1.2 billion	Rovi	J.P. Morgan / Morgan Stanley	Cooley	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Arie Rubenstein
Notes Offering	$750 million	Syngenta Finance	Citigroup / Merrill Lynch	Sidley Austin / Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton, Alon Gurfinkel	De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek / Homburger
Initial Public Offering	$575 million	Vantiv	J.P. Morgan / Morgan Stanley / Credit Suisse	Weil, Gotshal & Manges	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, William Curran, Kerry Price

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