Deals of the week - July 2 2012

July 01, 2012

TYPE OF DEAL	VALUE	ACQUIRER	TARGET	ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX)	ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX)
Acquisition	$20.1 billion	Anheuser-Busch InBev	Grupo Modelo	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom / Sullivan & Cromwell / Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	Cravath Swaine & Moore
Acquisition	$5.35 billion	Petronas	Progress Energy	Norton Rose	Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer
Acquisition	$3.8 billion	MediaTek	Mstar Semiconductor	Jones Day	Lee & Li
Acquisition	$1.9 billion	Rift	Veolia	Hogan Lovells	Simmons & Simmons
Acquisition	$1.2 billion	Microsoft	Yammer	Perkins Coie	Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Acquisition	$500 million	Oriental Financial Group	Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria		Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell
Acquisition	$315 million	Affymetrix	eBioscience	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg	DLA Piper
Acquisition	$237.6 million	Marubeni	ACR	Allen & Gledhill	WongPartnership
TYPE OF DEAL	VALUE	ISSUER / BORROWER	LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS	ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER	ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS
Notes Offering	$1.5 billion	Caterpillar	Citigroup / J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch	Sidley Austin	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell
Refinancing	$1.08 billion	Loy Yang B Power Station (International Power / GDF Suez / Mitsui & Co)		King & Wood Mallesons	Freehills
Secondary Offering	$1 billion	IHS	Goldman Sachs	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan	Sullivan & Cromwell
Global Bond Offering	$1 billion	Province of Ontario	Deutsche Bank / Goldman Sachs / J.P. Morgan / TD Securities		Davis Polk & Wardwell
Medium-term Note Programme	$630.7 million	Mewah International	DBS Bank	WongPartnership	Allen & Gledhill
Notes Offering	$250 million	Brasil Foods	BB Securities / HSBC / Itau BBA / Santander	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett / Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon, Yuliya Epifantseva
Term Loan Facility	$250 million	NCI Building Systems	Credit Suisse	Debevoise & Plimpton	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus
Entitlement Offer	$225 million	Billabong	Goldman Sachs / Deutsche Bank	Allens / Sidley Austin	King & Wood Mallesons / Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

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