Deals of the week - September 16 2013

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Deals of the week - September 16 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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