Deals of the week - September 16 2013

September 15 2013

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Acquisition	$10 billion	Vodafone	Kabel Deutschland	Stikeman Elliott
Acquisition	$7.2 billion	Koch Industries	Molex	Latham & Watkins	Dentons
Acquisition	$4.1 billion	Fresenius Helios	Rhön-Klinikum (Hospitals)	Hengeler Mueller - Ernst-Thomas Kraft, Mathias Link
Acquisition	$2.15 billion	Suntory Beverage & Food	Ribena / Lucozade (GSK)	Clifford Chance	Allen & Overy
Acquisition	$2 billion	Umpqua Holdings	Sterling Financial	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Joshua Holmes	Davis Polk & Wardwell
Acquisition	$1.2 billion	Jacobs Engineering Group	Sinclair Knight Merz	Paul Hastings / Allens / Linklaters	Jones Day
Recommunalisation of Berlin Wasserbetriebe	$804 .3 million	State of Berlin	Berlin Wasserbetriebe (Veolia)		Noerr - Carsten Heinz
Acquisition	$800 million	Vista Equity Partners	Omnitracs	Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Acquisition	$415 million	Cisco	WhipTail	Fenwick & West - Ron Schrotenboer
Acquisition	$217.7 million	Prologis	Schroder Property		Hengeler Mueller - Martin Klein
Acquisition	$100 million	Magellan Health Services	Partners Rx®	Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Helyn Goldstein
Acquisition	Undisclosed	Facebook	Monoidics	Fenwick & West - Larissa Neumann
Acquisition	Undisclosed	Hellman & Friedman	CarProof		Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Acquisition	Undisclosed	NATIONAL Public Relations	Madano Partnership	Stikeman Elliott - Luc Bernier
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Bond Issue	$49 billion	Verizon		Debevoise & Plimpton	Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Notes Offering	$2 billion	Royal Bank of Canada	RBC Capital Markets / JP Morgan		Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr
Block Trade	$1.1 billion	LyondellBasell Industries	Citigroup	Baker Botts	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Farber
Senior Notes Offering	$800 million	Cubist Pharmaceuticals	Morgan Stanley / Barclays / RBC Capital Markets	Ropes & Gray	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon

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