Deals of the week - September 2 2013

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Deals of the week - September 2 2013

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Acquisition

$10.4 billion

Amgen

Onyx Pharmaceuticals

Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer

Goodwin Procter

Acquisition

$5.2 billion

Deutsche Wohnen

GSW Immobilien

Sullivan & Cromwell

Hengeler Mueller

Acquisition

$3.1 billion

Sinopec Group

Apache

Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Jared Rusman

Acquisition

$1.9 billion

Baidu

91 Wireless

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Acquisition

$1.6 billion

Atlas Copco

Edwards Group

Weil, Gotshal & Manges / Davis Polk & Wardwell

Merger

$1.6 billion

Dole Food

David H Murdock

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher / Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer, David Passey

Paul Hastings

Merger

$220 million

Cullen/Frost Bankers

WNB Bancshares

Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer

Haynie Rake Repass & Lowry / Atkins, Hollmann, Jones, Peacock, Lewis & Lyon

Acquisition

$200 million

C.R. Bard

Medafor

Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Helyn Goldstein

Fredrikson & Byron

Acquisition

$143.9 million

Keppel REIT Management

8 Exhibition Street

King & Wood Mallesons

Acquisition

$104.5 million

Garda World Security

G4S Cash Solutions

Stikeman Elliott - John Lorito

Acquisition

Undisclosed

ARM Limited

Sensinode

Hannes Snellman / Davis Polk & Wardwell

Acquisition

Undisclosed

CPG International

Ares Management / Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

Sullivan & Cromwell - Andrew Mason, David Spitzer

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Facebook

Mobile Technologies

Fenwick & West - Adam Halpern, Larissa Neumann, Julia Ushakova-Stein

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Senior Notes Offering

$500 million

Moody's

JP Morgan / Merrill Lynch

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus

Block Trade

$276 million

PDC Energy

Merrill Lynch

Davis Graham & Stubbs

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr

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