Deals of the week - February 6 2012

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Deals of the week - February 6 2012

TYPE OF DEAL

VALUE

ACQUIRER

TARGET

ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX)

ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX)

Acquisition

$3.6 billion

Outokumpu

Inoxum

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Hengeler Mueller - Stefanie Beinert, Martin Klein

Acquisition

$3.9 billion

ABB

Thomas & Betts

Kirkland & Ellis

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Acquisition

$1.5 billion

Permira

Genesys

Clifford Chance / Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

Acquisition

$1.16 billion

Amgen

Micromet

Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer

Cooley

Acquisition

$427 million

Hudson's Bay

Lord & Taylor Holdings

Stikeman Elliott - Dean Kraus, Jonathan Willson

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison

Acquisition

$108 million

Dundee

5001 Yonge Street

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt

Stikeman Elliott

TYPE OF DEAL

VALUE

ISSUER / BORROWER

LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS

ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER (TAX)

ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS (TAX) 

Loan Agreement

$10.5 billion

Schaeffler AG

BNP Paribas / Commerzbank / Deutsche Bank / HSBC / JP Morgan / LBBW / RBS / UniCredit

Hengeler Mueller

Notes Offering

$800 million

CEVA

Credit Suisse / Deutsche Bank / Goldman Sachs / JP Morgan / Morgan Stanley / UBS / Apollo Global

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, Changsheng Song / Linklaters

Debut Global Offering

$600 million

Grupo Aval

Goldman Sachs / JP Morgan

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, Juelle Gomes

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett / Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta

Subordinated Notes Offering

$500 million

AEGON

Merrill Lynch / Citigroup / Morgan Stanley / Wells Fargo

Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton, Adam Perry

Incremental Revolving Credit Facility

$131.5 million

CEVA

Credit Suisse

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Davis Polk & Wardwell

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