Deals of the week - January 23 2012

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Deals of the week - January 23 2012

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Acquisition

$7.3 billion

SMFG

RBS Aviation

Milbank Tweed

Clifford Chance

Acquisition

$3.16 billion

Pembina Pipeline

Provident Energy

Blake, Cassels & Graydon / Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Norton Rose Canada / Dorsey and Whitney

Acquisition

$2.85 billion

Apache

Cordillera Energy Partners III

Jefferies & Co / Thompson & Knight

Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co

Merger

$2.2 billion

Abacus Property Group

Abacus Storage Fund

Freehills

Freehills

Acquisition

$1.46 billion

Cinven

CPA (Intermediate Capital Group)

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

DLA Piper

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Rights Offering

$473.2 million

China Communications Services

CITIC Securities

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer / Jingtian & Gongcheng

Davis Polk & Wardwell

High Yield Bond Offering

$420 million

Ardagh

Shearman & Sterling - Jeffrey Tate & Craig Gibian

Convertible Notes Offering

$250 million

PHH Corporation

JP Morgan / Merrill Lynch / Pierce Fenner & Smith

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Po Sit & Nicole Field

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