TYPE OF DEAL |
VALUE |
ACQUIRER |
TARGET |
ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX) |
ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX) |
Merger |
$1.4 billion |
Justice Holdings / Pershing Square Capital |
Burger King Worldwide |
Sullivan & Cromwell - Davis Wang / Greenberg Traurig |
Kirkland & Ellis |
Patent Deal |
$1.1 billion |
Microsoft |
AOL |
Covington & Burling |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz / Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner |
Acquisition |
$1 billion |
Fenwick & West - Adam Halpern, Natalie Pardo de Zela |
Orrick |
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Acquisition |
$950 million |
Cerberus Capital |
AT&T (Yellow Pages) |
Schulte Roth - Alan Waldenberg |
Sullivan & Cromwell - Andrew Mason |
Acquisition |
$221.4 million |
Witwatersrand Consolidated Gold Resources / Pan African Resources |
Evander Gold Mines (Harmony Gold Mining) |
Stikeman Elliott / Eversheds |
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TYPE OF DEAL |
VALUE |
ISSUER / BORROWER |
LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS |
ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER |
ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS |
Notes Offering |
$3 billion |
Apache |
Citigroup / Goldman Sachs / J.P. Morgan |
Bracewell & Giuliani |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Farber, Juelle Gomes |
Notes Offering |
$2.15 billion |
Hartford Financial |
Citigroup / Goldman Sachs |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, Yuliya Epifantseva |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton |
Senior Notes Offering |
$1.5 billion |
Lloyds TSB |
Citigroup / Merrill Lynch / Morgan Stanley / Wells Fargo |
Linklaters / Dundas & Wilson / Davis Polk & Wardwell |
Allen & Overy |
Refinancing |
$1.25 billion |
Cargill |
ANZ / Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ / BNP Paribas / Deutsche Bank / HSBC / RBS / Standard Chartered |
WongPartnership |
Linklaters |
High-yield Notes Offering |
$1.1 billion |
OGX |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Po Sit, Ankur Dalal |
White & Case / Machado Meyer Sendacz Opice |
|
Initial Public Offering |
$490 million |
Rexnord |
Merrill Lynch / Goldman Sachs / Credit Suisse / Deutsche Bank / Barclays |
O’Melveny & Myers |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon, Arie Rubenstein |
Initial Public Offering |
$100.1 million |
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals |
JP Morgan |
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Neil Barr, Changsheng Song |
Deals of the week - April 9 2012
