Deals of the week - March 25 2013

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Deals of the week - March 25 2013

TYPE OF DEAL

VALUE

ACQUIRER

TARGET

ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX)

ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX)

Acquisition

$55 billion

Rosneft

TNK-BP

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom / Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld / Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Acquisition

$2.62 billion

Liberty Media Corporation

Charter Communications

Baker Botts

Kirkland & Ellis

Acquisition

$900 million

Dynegy

Ameren Energy Resources

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Jodi Schwartz, Joshua Holmes

Acquisition

$528 million

GRIP Unit Trust

G:Res1

Simmons & Simmons - Nick Cronkshaw, Chris Agnoli

Pinsent Masons

Acquisition

$418.7 million

GE Capital Australia

Allianz Finance

King & Wood Mallesons

Allens

Acquisition

$360 million

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International

Obagi Medical Products

Jenner & Block

Acquisition

$294 million

Cynosure

Palomar Medical Technologies

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder

WilmerHale

Acquisition

$209 million

Glatfelter Gernsbach

Dresden Papier

Jones Day

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft / Sangra Moller

Acquisition

Undisclosed

Dropbox

Orchestra

Fenwick & West - Adam Halpern, Larissa Neumann

TYPE OF DEAL

VALUE

ISSUER / BORROWER

LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS

ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER

ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS

Senior Notes Offering

$1.5 billion

Goldcorp

HSBC / Merrill Lynch

Shearman and Sterling / Cassels Brock & Blackwell

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus

Senior Notes Offering

$1.2 billion

Discovery Communications

J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch / Credit Suisse

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale / Dorr

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon

Secondary Offering

$600 million

Yandex

Morgan Stanley / Deutsche Bank / Goldman Sachs

Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale / Dorr

Senior Notes Offering

$500 million

Maxim Integrated Products

J.P. Morgan / Goldman Sachs

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg

Junior Subordinated Notes Offering

$450 million

PPL Capital Funding

Citigroup / Merrill Lynch / Morgan Stanley / UBS / Wells Fargo

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon

Sullivan & Cromwell

Debut Offering

$275 million

NANA Development Corporation

Goldman Sachs

Stoel Rives

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon

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