Type of Deal |
Value |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
Merger |
$13 billion |
Progressive Waste Solutions |
Waste Connections |
Stikeman Elliott: John Lorito; Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
Locke Lord; Bennett Jones |
Acquisition |
$11.3 billion |
Fortis |
ITC Holdings Company |
White & Case; Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg |
Simpson Thacher Bartlett |
Acquisition |
$6.4 billion |
CPPIB |
Asciaono |
Stikeman Elliott |
|
Acquisition |
$6 billion |
Ingram Micro |
Tianjin Tianhai Invesment Company; HNA Group |
Davis Polk & Wardwell: Rachel Kleinberg |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
Acquisition |
$5.8 billion |
Abbott Laboratories |
Alere |
Evercore; Kirkland & Ellis |
Davis Polk & Wardwell; Cravath Swaine & Moore |
Acquisition |
$5.4 billion |
Qingdao Haier |
GE Appliances |
Stikeman Elliott; White & Case |
Sidley Austin |
Merger |
$3.4 billion |
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated |
FirstMerit Corporation |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Joshua Holmes |
|
Acquisition |
$2.7 billion |
Stryker Corporation |
Madison Dearborn Partners; Sage Products |
Davis Polk & Wardwell; Sullivan & Cromwell |
Kirkland & Ellis; Madden, Jiganti, Moore & Sinars |
Acquistion |
$2.4 billion |
The Empire District Electric Company |
Algonquin Power & Utilities |
Skadden, Arps Slate Meagher & Flom; Cahill Gordon & Reindel |
Husch Blackwell |
Acquistion |
$2.3 billion |
Lowe's Companies |
Rona |
Stikeman Elliott |
|
Merger |
$1.8 billion |
Lockheed Martin Corporation; Information Systems & Global Solutions |
Leidos Holdings |
Davis Polk & Wardwell: Neil Barr, Kathleen Ferrell, Nicole Field and Aaron Weil |
Skadden, Arps Slate Meagher & Flom |
Acquisition |
$1.5 billion |
EQUATE Petrochemical Company |
The Dow Company; ME Global |
McCarthy Tetrault; Shearman & Sterling |
|
Acquisition |
$1.4 billion |
Cisco Systems |
Jasper Technologies from Temasek Holdings, Sequoia Capital, Integral Capital Partners, Crescendo Ventures Management, Bridgescale Partners, DAG Ventures and KPN Ventures |
Fenwick & West: Andrew Kim, Ora Grinberg |
|
Acquisition |
$1.3 billion |
Stryker Corporation |
Physio-Control International |
Skadden, Arps Slate Meagher & Flom: Kenneth Betts |
Kirkland & Ellis |
Acquisition of stake |
$1.1 billion |
Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation |
Vallourec |
Skadden, Arps Slate Meagher & Flom |
|
Acquisition |
$1 billion |
Abertis Infraestruturas |
Alberta Investment Management Corporation; Autopista Central de Chile |
Stikeman Elliott |
|
Acquisition of 13% ownership interest |
$1 billion |
Sumitomo Metal Mining |
Freeport-McMoRan; Morenci unincorporated |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
|
Acquisition |
$895 million |
TE Connectivity |
Permira Funds; Creganna Medical |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
Skadden, Arps Slate Meagher & Flom; Gavin White |
Acquisition of 67% stake |
$408 million |
China Ming Yang Wind Power Group |
China Ming Yang |
Skadden, Arps Slate Meagher & Flom |
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett |
Type of Deal |
Value |
Issuer/Borrower |
Lead managers/arrangers |
Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) |
Adviser to lead managers (tax) |
Offering of common stock |
$2.5 billion |
Molson Coors Brewing Company |
Anheuser-Busch InBev |
Davis Polk & Wardwell: Alexander Wu |
|
Notes offering of 5.819% by 2017 |
$1.4 billion |
ConAgre Foods |
Davis Polk & Wardwell: Gregory Hannibal |
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Notes offering of 4.45% by 2026 |
$900 million |
Crown Castle International Corporation |
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets, JP Morgan Securities |
Skadden, Arps Slate Meagher & Flom |
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