Deals of the week - November 4 2013

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Deals of the week - November 4 2013

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Acquisition

$3.5 billion

Murray Energy

Consolidation Coal

Kirkland & Ellis

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Deborah Paul / Greenberg Traurig / Steptoe & Johnson / Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney

Acquisition

$1.62 billion

Crown Holdings

Mivisa Envases

Dechert

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Acquisition

$1.5 billion

Yue Xiu Enterprises

Chong Hing Bank

Slaughter & May

Acquisition

$1.4 billion

Mosaic Company

CF Industries (phosphate business)

Dorsey & Whitney / Mayer Brown / Arnold & Porter

Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom

Acquisition

$1.1 billion

Plum Creek Timber

MeadWestvaco

In-house / Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Jodi Schwartz, Joshua Holmes / Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough

Acquisition

$145 million

Internap Network Services

iWeb

Stikeman Elliott - Katy Pitch

Acquisition

Undisclosed

PwC

Booz & Co

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg / Linklaters

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Acquisition

Undisclosed

RealPage

ActiveBuilding

Fenwick & West

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Notes Offering

$1.5 billion

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Deutsche Bank / JP Morgan / Barclays / Credit Suisse / BNP Paribas / RBS

Kirkland & Ellis

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus

Secondary Offering

$1.12 billion

ING

Morgan Stanley / Goldman Sachs / Citigroup / Merrill Lynch

Sullivan & Cromwell

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg

Floating-Rate Notes Offering

$250 million

General Mills

JP Morgan

Dorsey & Whitney

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr

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