Type of Deal |
Value |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
Acquisition |
$6 billion |
International Paper |
Weyerhaeuser |
Debevoise & Plimpton, Peter Furci |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Andrew Needham |
Acquisition |
$4 billion |
Reed Elsevier |
ChoicePoint |
Sullivan & Cromwell |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Joshua Holmes |
Acquisition |
$3.7 billion |
First Reserve Corporation |
CHC Helicopter Corporation |
Slaughter and May, Gareth Miles & Tim Woodthorpe, Blake, Cassels & Graydon, Jeffrey Trossman, Paul Stepak |
DLA Piper, David Buss |
Merger |
$3.1 billion |
DoubleClick |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Steve Todrys |
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Acquisition |
?1.8 billion ($2.7 billion) |
Scottish and Southern Energy |
Airtricity Holdings |
A& L Goodbody, Andrew Quinn, KPMG UK, Russell Hills |
Arthur Cox, Fintan Clancy, KPMG Ireland, Mike Hayes |
Acquisition |
$2.4 billion |
Hellman & Friedman |
Getty Images |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Katharine Moir, Steve Todrys & Ben Applestein |
Weil Gotshal & Manges, Helyn Goldstein |
Merger |
$2.3 billion |
WebMD Health |
HLTH |
Cahill Gordon & Reindel, L. Howard Adams & Sam Lichtman |
O'Melveny & Myers, Robert Blashek & Robert Fisher |
Acquisition |
£545 million ($1.1 billion) |
Autogrill |
BAA's World Duty Free duty-free retail outlets |
Lovells, Kevin Ashman |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer |
Acquisition |
$850 million |
AOL |
Bebo |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Helyn Goldstein, Sharon Shachar & Jane Scobie |
|
Acquisition |
$745 million |
Barclays Bank |
Expobank |
Clifford Chance, Alexander Anichkin |
|
Acquisition |
?320 million ($481 million) |
Jerónimo Martins |
Plus |
Uría Menéndez, Filipe Romão & Miguel Agrellos, Hengeler Mueller, Martin Klein, Soltysinski Kawecki & Szlezak, Piotr Andrzejak |
|
Acquisition |
$420 million |
Galderma Pharma |
CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals |
Debevoise & Plimpton, Peter Furci |
Milbank Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Russell Kestenbaum |
Acquisition |
$293 million |
JPMorgan |
Bear Stearns |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Jodi Schwartz & Joshua Holmes |
|
Acquisition |
$268 million |
UGI Utilities |
PPL Corporation |
Simpson Thacher, Robert Holo & Peter Rosen |
|
Merger |
$219 million |
Visant |
Phoenix Color |
Simpson Thacher, Robert Holo & Peter Rosen |
|
Acquisition |
$195 million |
Pfizer |
Encysive Pharmaceuticals |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Andrew Gaines |
Covington & Burling, Rob Heller & Guy Dingley |
Acquisition |
$150 million |
NBC Universal |
NDTV |
White & Case, Peita Menon, James Meakin, Luthra & Luthra, Vikas Srivastava, Sundeep Dudeja & S.R. Pattnaik, KPMG |
|
Acquisition |
£42 million ($82.6 million) |
Sanlam |
Principal Investment Holdings |
Taylor Wessing, Peter Jackson & Omleen Ajimal |
|
Acquisition |
?46 million ($72 million) |
Affiliated Computer Services |
sds business services |
Ashurst, Matthias Kuhn |
P+P Pöllath + Partner |
Acquisition |
$71.3 million |
PT Carrefour Indonesia |
PT Alfa Retailindo |
Milbank Tweed, Hadley & McCloy |
|
Acquisition |
?16.2 million ($24.5 million) |
Imperial Tobacco Group |
Altadis |
Uría Menéndez, Rafael Garcia Llaneza |
|
Acquisition |
$17 million |
Yellow Pages Group |
TBayTel |
Ogilvy Renault, Joel Boucher |
|
Acquisition |
£2.1 million ($4.2 million) |
British American Tobacco |
Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni |
Herbert Smith, Isaac Zailer |
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kromann Reumert |
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Bridgepoint Capital |
Pret A Manger |
Travers Smith, Kathleen Russ |
KPMG, Michelle Quest, Adrian Crouch, Simon Page, Edwin Huang, Garry O'Neill, Daniel Grant |
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Elekta |
CMSI Holdings |
Shearman & Sterling, Michael Sunwoo |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund |
Sony Berlin's Sony Centre |
Hengeler Mueller, Martin Klein |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Christian Ruoff & Martin Mues |
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance |
Fyfe Group |
Pinsent Masons, Liz Morgan |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Suez and Gaz de France |
Goldman Sachs and Cargill (sale of Teesside Power) |
Chadbourne & Parke |
Ashurst, Richard Palmer & Nicholas Gardner |
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Rewe Group |
Tengelmann Group |
Shearman & Sterling, Johannes Frey & Hendrik Jürging |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Vivartia |
Nonni's Food Company |
Shearman & Sterling, Don Lonczak & Patrick Valenti |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
IBM |
Encentuate |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Andrew Needham, J. Leonard Teti & Joanne Lee |
|
Type of Deal |
Value |
Issuer/borrower |
Lead managers/arrangers |
Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) |
Adviser to lead managers (tax) |
IPO |
$46.3 million |
ATA |
Merrill Lynch |
Davis Polk & Wardwell, William Weigel & Joshua Ruland |
Simpson Thacher, Rob Holo, Benjamin Applestein & Wei Cui |
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