Type of Deal |
Value |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
Acquisition |
$24 billion |
Becton, Dickinson and Company |
C.R Bard |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
Merger |
$14.5 billion |
South State Corporation |
Park Sterling Corporation |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
McGuireWoods |
Acquisition |
$13.3 billion |
Cenovus Energy |
ConocoPhillips' 50% stake in the Foster Creek Christina Lake oil sands partnership and the majority of its western Canada Deep Basin gas assets |
Wharton & Garrison |
Goldman, Sachs & Co (financial adviser) advised by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
Merger |
$7.4 billion |
Care Capital Properties |
Sabra Health Care REIT |
Sidley Austin |
O’Melveny & Myers; Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson |
Acquisition |
$7.2 billion |
Thermo Fisher Scientific |
Patheon |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
Acquisition |
$5.6 billion |
Bain Capital, LP and Cinven Partners |
STADA Arzneimittel AG |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
|
Acquisiton |
$4.2 billion |
Tyson Foods |
AdvancePierre Foods Holdings |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
Acquisition |
$3.3 billion |
Moody's Corporation |
Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing BV |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
|
Acquisition |
$2.2 billion |
First Horizon National Corp |
Capital Bank Financial Corp |
Sullivan & Cromwell |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz: Joshua Holmes |
Acquisition |
$1.7 billion |
Intact Financial Corporation |
OneBeacon Insurance Group, Ltd. |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Blake, Cassels & Graydon |
|
Acquistion |
$627 million |
ORIX Corporation |
Ormat Technologies |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
|
Acquisition |
$560 million |
Owens Corning |
Pittsburgh Corning Corporation |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
|
Acquisition |
$462 million |
ESW Capital |
Jive Software |
Cooley |
Morgan Stanley (financial adviser) advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell; P.C. |
Acquisition |
$222 million (approx.) |
Telus Communications |
BCE |
||
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Comcast Corporation |
Craftsy |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
|
Merger |
Undisclosed |
Fivory subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel-CM11 |
RMW (Wa!) subisdiary of BNP Paribas subsidiary |
Bredin Prat |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
The Middleby Corporation |
Burford Corporation |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
|
Type of Deal |
Value |
Issuer/Borrower |
Lead managers/arrangers |
Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) |
Adviser to lead managers (tax) |
Notes offering |
$6.5 billion |
Intel Corporation |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
||
Notes offering |
$3.88 billion (approx) |
Morgan Stanley |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
||
Notes offering |
$2.25 billion |
Eli Lilly |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
||
Notes offering |
$1.75 billion |
Morgan Stanley |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
||
Notes offering |
$850 million |
CSX Corporation |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
||
Notes offering |
$750 million |
General Motors Financial Company |
AmeriCredit Financial Services |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
Deals of the month
