Deals of the week - October 7 2013

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Deals of the week - October 7 2013

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Acquisition

$2.18 billion

Darling International

Vion Ingredients

K&L Gates / Clifford Chance

Acquisition

$1.6 billion

Pacific Rubiales Energy

Petrominerales

Norton Rose Fulbright

McCarthy Tetrault / Torys

Acquisition

$1.13 billion

Aspen

GSK (thrombosis drug brands)

Bredin Prat - Julien Gayral / Slaughter & May

Merger

$1.1 billion

Industrial Developments International

Verde Realty Operating Partnership

Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Scott Sontag

Acquisition

$1.05 billion

Vista Equity Partners

Active Network

Kirkland & Ellis

DLA Piper

Acquisition

$930 million

Monsanto Company

Climate Corporation

Latham & Watkins

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Acquisition

$453 million

Ultrapar Participações

Imifarma Produtos Farmacêuticos e Cosméticos

Lefosse Advogados

Acquisition

$280 million

Hochschild Mining

International Minerals

Stikeman Elliott - Dean Kraus, John O’Connor

Acquisition

Undisclosed

AXA Liabilities Managers

Global Reinsurance

Stikeman Elliott

Acquisition

Undisclosed

GPVTL Canada

Xtreme Labs

Stikeman Elliott

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Senior Notes Offering

$4.5 billion

General Motors Company

Citigroup

Jenner & Block

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon

Convertible Bonds Issue

$641.4 million

CapitaLand

Credit Suisse

Allen & Overy / Allen & Gledhill

Linklaters / WongPartnership

Senior Notes Offering

$500 million

Marsh & McLennan Companies

Goldman Sachs / HSBC / Merrill Lynch / Deutsche Bank

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr

Willkie Farr & Gallagher

Initial Public Offering

$192.3 million

Ophthotech Corporation

Morgan Stanley / JP Morgan

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

Davis Polk & Wardwell

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