Deals of the week - July 23 2012

July 22 2012

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Acquisition	$6.6 billion	BC Partners / CPP Investment Board	Suddenlink	Torys / Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	Latham & Watkins / Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Acquisition	$3.6 billion	GlaxoSmithKline	Human Genome Sciences	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz / Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom / DLA Piper
Acquisition	$1.9 billion	Georgia Gulf	PPG	Jones Day	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Acquisition	$1.9 billion	TPG Capital	Par Pharmaceutical	Ropes & Gray / Cravath Swaine & Moore	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Acquisition	$1.36 billion	Cogeco Cable	Atlantic Broadband	Stikeman Elliott / Simpson Thacher & Bartlett / Wiley Rein	Kirkland & Ellis
Acquisition	$925 million	Thermo Fisher Scientific	One Lambda	Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr / Seth Hoogasian	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Acquisition	$550 million	State Street Corporation	Goldman Sachs Administration Services		Sullivan & Cromwell
Acquisition	$275 million	Accor	Grupo Posadas	Lefosse Advogados
Acquisition	$208 million	RBC Dexia	Ocean Properties	WongPartnership	Lee & Lee
Acquisition	Undisclosed	NBCUniversal	MSNBC Digital Network	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Avishai Shachar, Neil Barr
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Medium-term Note Programme	$1.59 billion	Changi Airport Group		WongPartnership	Allen & Gledhill
Rights Issue	$448 million	SPAusNet	Macquarie Group / UBS		WongPartnership
Medium-term Note Programme	$397 million	Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation	United Overseas Bank	Allen & Gledhill	WongPartnership
Initial Public Offering	$215 million	Yongda	UBS / HSBC / BOCOM	Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton	Paul Hastings

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