Type of Deal |
Value |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
Merger |
$5.47 billion |
Volkswagen |
Porsche |
Clifford Chance |
Hengeler Mueller / Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer |
Acquisition |
$5.3 billion |
Bristol-Myers Squibb |
Amylin Pharmaceuticals (AstraZeneca) |
Kirkland & Ellis |
Davis Polk & Wardwell / Covington & Burling |
Acquisition |
$2.5 billion |
EverBank Financial |
Business Property Lending |
Sullivan & Cromwell |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
Acquisition |
$840 million |
Ingram Micro |
Brightpoint |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg |
Blank Rome |
Acquisition |
$820 million |
One Equity |
M*Modal |
Dechert |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
Acquisition |
$727 million |
KKR |
WMF |
Hengeler Mueller |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Australian Food Group (Pacific Equity) |
Nestlé (Peters Ice Cream) |
Clayton Utz |
King & Wood Mallesons |
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Capvis |
Ondal Group |
Hengeler Mueller - Martin Klein |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Federal-Mogul |
BorgWarner (BERU) |
Hengeler Mueller - Stefanie Beinert |
|
Type of Deal |
Value |
Issuer/Borrower |
Lead managers/arrangers |
Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) |
Adviser to lead managers (tax) |
Notes Offering |
$2.25 billion |
Comcast |
BNP Paribas / Citigroup / Merrill Lynch / Wells Fargo |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg |
Cahill Gordon & Reindel |
Notes Offering |
$1.5 billion |
Oesterreichische Kontrollbank |
BNP Paribas / Deutsche Bank / Goldman Sachs / J.P. Morgan |
Shearman & Sterling / Pöch Krassnigg |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |