Deals of the week - January 13 2014

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Deals of the week - January 13 2014

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Notes offering/accelerated share repo

$2 billion

FedEx Corporation

JP Morgan Securities; Goldman, Sachs; Morgan Stanley; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; Citigroup

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Mario Verdolini, Leslie Altus, Ankur Dalal

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Primary placing of H shares

$759 million

China Oilfield Services (CNOOC)

China International Capital; Credit Suisse; JP Morgan; Goldman Sachs; Morgan Stanley

Davis Polk & Wardwell; KangDa Law Firm; Freshfields Burckhaus Deringer

Zhong Yin Law Firm

Acquisition financing

$325 million

XPO Logistics & 3PD

Credit Suisse Securities

Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Incremental facility

$300 million

Verint Systems

Credit Suisse Securities; Deutsche Bank Securities

Jones Day

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell

Common stock offering

$192 million

Kennedy-Wilson Holdings

Deutsche Bank Securities

Latham & Watkins; Kulik, Gottesman & Siegel

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Juelle Gomes

Secondary common stock offering

$163 million

Groupon (LivingSocial)

Morgan Stanley

Winston & Strawn; Cooley

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Catherine Paskoff Chang

Senior notes offering

$150 million

K Hovnanian Enterprises

Credit Suisse Securities; JP Morgan Securities

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Adam Perry

Acquisition financing

Undisclosed

Platinum Equity

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; Credit Suisse Securities

Wilkie Farr & Gallagher

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Vinay Prabhakar

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