Type of Deal |
Value |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
Merger |
$54.8 billion |
Shire plc |
AbbVie Inc. |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus |
|
Acquisition |
$175 million |
LinkedIn Corporation |
Bizo Inc. |
Fenwick & West - Adam Halpern, William Skinner |
|
Type of Deal |
Value |
Issuer/Borrower |
Lead managers/arrangers |
Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) |
Adviser to lead managers (tax) |
Bridge Facility |
$5.7 billion |
Tyson Foods, Inc. |
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
Senior Notes Offering |
$3 billion |
Morgan Stanley |
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Andrew Smith |
Sidley Austin |
Term Loan Facility |
$2.5 billion |
Tyson Foods, Inc. |
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
Notes Offering |
$1.25 billion |
Toyota Motor Credit Corporation |
Barclays Capital Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and RBC Capital Markets, LLC |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Rachel Kleinberg, Koonho Cho |
|
Notes Offering |
$1 billion |
CSX Corporation |
Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and UBS Securities LLC |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, Adam Bedzow |
Shearman & Sterling |
Senior PIK Toggle Notes Offering |
$400 million |
MHGE |
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BMO Capital Markets Corp., Jefferies LLC, Nomura Securities International, Inc., UBS Securities LLC and Apollo Global Securities LLC |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, Tracy Matlock |
Senior Notes Offering and Capped Call Transactions |
$130 million |
The KEYW Holding Corporation |
RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc |
Alston & Bird, Holland & Knight |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Po Sit, Lucy Farr, Aaron Weil |
Intial Shares Offering |
$130 million |
Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Ltd |
Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and Rand Merchant Bank |
Bowman Gilfillan Inc., Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton, Omer Harel |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Edward Nathan Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc. |
Deals of the week - July 21 2014
