Deal of the week - May 13 2013

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Deal of the week - May 13 2013

TYPE OF DEAL

VALUE

ACQUIRER

TARGET

ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX)

ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX)

Acquisition

$1.5 billion

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group

PT Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Nasional

Linklaters

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Acquisition

$600 million

OMERS Private Equity

Civica

Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Joanne Etherton

Acquisition

$370 million

Baidu

PPS

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

Acquisition

$240.1 million

Sprott Inc.

Sprott Resource Lending Corp.

Heenan Blaikie

Stikeman Elliott - Dean Kraus, Jill Winton

Acquisition

$214 million

Perpetual

The Trust Company

Herbert Smith Freehills

King & Wood Mallesons - Darren McClafferty

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Charter Hall / PSP Investments

FKP Property Group (Gasometer 2 Brisbane)

King & Wood Mallesons

Thomson Lawyers

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Hain Celestial

Ella's Kitchen Group

DLA Piper

Davenport Lyons - Gerald Montagu

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Sana Kliniken

Klinikum Offenbach

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft - Jens Röhrbein

TYPE OF DEAL

VALUE

ISSUER / BORROWER

LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS

ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER

ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS

SEC Registered Guaranteed Notes Offering

$4 billion

CNOOC

Bank of China (Hong Kong) / Bank of China / BOCI Asia / China International Capital Corporation / Citigroup / Credit Suisse / Goldman Sachs / J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch / CCB / ICBC / Scotia Capital / Société Générale

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr / Walkers

Linklaters / Commerce & Finance Law Offices

Secondary Public Offering

$1.82 billion

RTL Group

Hengeler Mueller / Davis Polk & Wardwell

Secondary Offering

$1.3 billion

Cobalt International Energy

Citigroup

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus

Shearman & Sterling

Initial Public Offering

$1.27 billion

ING

Morgan Stanley / Goldman Sachs / Citigroup

Sullivan & Cromwell

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg

Notes Offering

$1 billion

Texas Instruments

J.P. Morgan / Morgan Stanley

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg

Notes Offering

$650 million

Praxair

Citigroup / Credit Suisse / RBS

Cahill Gordon & Reindell

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon

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