Deals of the week - February 27 2012

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Deals of the week - February 27 2012

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Acquisition

$1.25 billion

URS

Flint Energy

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt

Bennett Jones

Acquisition

$1.09 billion

SBA Communications

Mobilitie

Greenberg Traurig

Goodwin Procter

Acquisition

$139 million

AWE

Genting Oil Natuna / Sanyen Oil and Gas

WongPartnership / Mallesons Stephen Jacques

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Wells Fargo

BNP Paribas

Sullivan & Cromwell

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Buyout Fund

$8.74 billion

BC Partners

Weil, Gotshal & Manges / Clifford Chance

Notes Offering

$3 billion

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold

Merrill Lynch / J.P. Morgan

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Arie Rubenstein

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Secured Term Loan Facility

$475 million

NXP

Morgan Stanley / Merrill Lynch

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus

Multicuurency Medium-term Note Programme

$397 million

Cambridge Industrial Trust

ANZ Bank

WongPartnership - Colin Ong, Trevor Chuan

Allen & Gledhill

High-yield Bond

$300 million

MMI International

Credit Suisse / J.P. Morgan / UBS

WongPartnership

Amendment and Restatement of Credit Facilities

$280 million

Windstream

J.P. Morgan

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Brian Radigan

Follow-on Common Stock Offering

$103.5 million

GSV Capital

Citigroup

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Mary Conway, Kay Ng

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