Deals of the week - April 9 2012

April 09, 2012

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	Facebook	Instagram	Fenwick & West - Adam Halpern, Natalie Pardo de Zela	Orrick
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
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

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