Deals of the week - August 12 2013

August 11 2013

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Acquisition	$1.1 billion	Brookfield Property Partners	Industrial Developments International	Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Scott Sontag	Alston & Bird - Jennifer Weiss
Acquisition	$405 million	AOL	Adap.tv		Fenwick & West - Ronald Schrotenboer, Zach Jones
Acquisition	$347 million	Samsung Group	Novaled	Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom	Sullivan & Cromwell
Acquisition	$181.5 million	TreeHouse Foods	Associated Brands	Winston & Strawn / Stikeman Elliott - Luc Bernier, Éric Lévesque	Torys
Acquisition	$126 million	York Capital Management	Primus Telecommunications Group (North American retail telecom operations)	Stikeman Elliott - John Lorito
Acquisition	$122.5 million	Estrella International Energy Services	San Antonio Internacional Colombia	Aird and Berlis / Estudio Garrido	Davis Polk & Wardwell / Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg / Cárdenas & Cárdenas
Acquisition	Undisclosed	Crossroads C&I	GlassCell Isofab	Stikeman Elliot / Kirkland & Ellis
Merger	Undisclosed	Theraclone Sciences	PharmAthene	Fenwick & West - Michael Solomon, Amanda Athanasiou
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Loan Facility Refinancing	$1.49 billion	Hologic	Goldman Sachs	Brown Rudnick	Davis Polk & Wardwell
Block Trade	$1.1 billion	LyondellBasell Industries	Barclays Capital	Baker Botts	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Farber
Notes Offering	$1 billion	Baidu	JP Morgan / Goldman Sachs	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom / Han Kun Law Offices / Maples and Calder / Li & Partners	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Alon Gurfinkel
Initial Public Offering	$383 million	Sprouts Farmers Market	Goldman Sachs /Credit Suisse	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon
Notes Offering	$300 million	Bankrate		Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Joshua Holmes
Initial Public Offering	$140 million	Ardmore Shipping	Morgan Stanley	Seward & Kissel	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus

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