Deals of the week - June 18 2012

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Deals of the week - June 18 2012

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Acquisition

$2.1 billion

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

London Metal Exchange

Allen & Overy

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Acquisition

$1 billion

Apax / JMI

Paradigm

Kirkland & Ellis

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Acquisition

$555 million

Upsher-Smith Laboratories

Proximagen Group

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom - Tim Sanders

Reed Smith - Caspar Fox

Acquisition

$386 million

Lion

Little World Beverages

King & Wood Mallesons - Judy Sullivan

Freehills

Acquisition

$382 million

Unibail-Rodamco

Perella Weinberg (mfi)

Hengeler Mueller

Merger

U.S. Silver Corporation

RX Gold & Silver

Stikeman Elliott - Dean Kraus, Francesco Gucciardo

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg

Acquisition

Undisclosed

América Móvil

Telekom Austria

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz / Wolf Theiss

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Senior Notes Offering

$600 million

Bunge

Citigroup / J.P. Morgan / Morgan Stanley / BNP Paribas

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan

Senior Notes Offering

$400 million

PPL Capital Funding

BNP Paribas / Goldman, Sachs / J.P. Morgan / UBS

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon

Sullivan & Cromwell

Intercompany Financing

$181 million

Singapore Press Holdings

Seletar Mall

WongPartnership

Lee & Lee

Syndicated Loan

$125 million

China Aviation Oil

ABN AMRO / Australia and New Zealand Banking Group / Bank of Communications / Crédit Agricole / United Overseas

WongPartnership

Rajah & Tann

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