Type of Deal |
Value |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
Acquisition |
$130 billion |
Verizon Communications |
Vodafone Group (Verizon Wireless) |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz / Macfarlanes / Debevoise & Plimpton |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
Acquisition |
$7.17 billion |
Microsoft |
Nokia |
Covington & Burling / Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom |
Acquisition |
$1.8 billion |
Jarden |
Yankee Candle |
Greenberg Traurig |
Kirkland & Ellis |
Acquisition |
$1.6 billion |
Global Ports |
National Container Company |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer |
Dentons |
Acquisition |
$1.1 billion |
Louisiana-Pacific |
Ainsworth Lumber |
Stikeman Elliott - Luc Bernier, Corine Di Maria / Jones Day / Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe |
Goodmans / Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom |
Acquisition |
$1.1 billion |
Parkway Properties |
Thomas Properties Group |
Hogan Lovells |
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom |
Acquisition |
$985 million |
Alliant Techsystems |
Bushnell Group Holdings |
Cravath Swaine & Moore |
Kirkland & Ellis |
Acquisition |
$616 million |
American Family Mutual Insurance Company |
Homesite Group |
Foley & Lardner |
Willkie Farr & Gallagher |
Acquisition |
$305.7 million |
Cementos Argos |
Lafarge Cementos |
Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer |
|
Acquisition |
$262 million |
C.R. Bard |
Rochester Medical |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Helyn Goldstein |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Midnox |
Fenwick & West - Adam Halpern, Larissa Neumann |
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Type of Deal |
Value |
Issuer/Borrower |
Lead managers/arrangers |
Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) |
Adviser to lead managers (tax) |
Term Loan Facilities |
$1.15 billion |
Spectrum Brands |
Credit Suisse / Deutsche Bank |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan |
Block Trade |
$492 million |
J.C. Penney Company |
Citigroup |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Gregory Hannibal |
Deals of the week - September 9 2013
