Deals of the week - April 30 2012

April 29, 2012

TYPE OF DEAL	VALUE	ACQUIRER	TARGET	ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX)	ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX)
Acquisition	$11.85 billion	Nestlé	Pfizer (Infant Nutrition)	Mayer Brown / King & Wood Mallesons	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom / Clifford Chance / DLA Piper
Acquisition	$4.1 billion	Fresenius	Rhön-Klinikum	Hengeler Mueller - Mathias Link
Acquisition	$1.8 billion	Suburban Propane	Inergy	Evercore	Greenhill
Acquisition	$1.25 billion	Veritas Capital	Thomson Reuters (Healthcare)	Sullivan & Cromwell - David Spitzer	Covington & Burling
Acquisition	$617 million	IAMGOLD	Trelawney Mining	Fasken Martineau DuMoulin	Stikeman Elliott - Dean Kraus, John O'Connor
Acquisition	$307 million	Chalco	Winsway		Davis Polk & Wardwell
Acquisition	$199 million	Korea Panama Mining	Minera Panama (Inmet Mining)	Stikeman Elliott	Torys
Share Repurchase	$150 million	Primerica	Warburg Pincus	Greenhill	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
TYPE OF DEAL	VALUE	ISSUER / BORROWER	LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS	ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER	ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS
Convertible Senior Notes Offering	$600 million	TIBCO Software	Morgan Stanley / J.P. Morgan	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg
Secondary Share Offering	$410 million	Qualicorp	Credit Suisse / Merrill Lynch / Bradesco / Goldman Sachs	Latham & Watkins / Mattos Filho	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Neil Barr, Arie Rubenstein
Initial Public Offering	$264 million	Splunk	Morgan Stanley / Credit Suisse / J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Juelle Gomes, Una Au
Senior Notes Offering	$150 million	Wabash National	Morgan Stanley / Wells Fargo	Hogan Lovells	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Yuliya Epifantseva

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