Type of deal Valuer Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) M&A $5.8 billion Cemex RMC Group Slaughter and May Linklaters, London, Charles Hellier, Sabina Margulies M&A ?621million ($812.7 million) Borgwarner The Carlyle Group agreed to sell Beru Borgwarner was advised by Hengeler Mueller Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Munich, Rolf Gerald Füger, Thomas Kleinheisterkamp M&A $160 million Fuji Photo Film Co Arch Chemicals agreed to sell its Microelectronics Materials business Winston & Strawn Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, Michael Schler, James Colliton, Shana Feldman, Michael O'Brien M&A £237 million ($437 million) First Islamic Investment Bank and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein South Staffordshire Linklaters Ashurst, London, Ian Johnson, Paul Miller M&A £1.6 billion ($2.95 billion) Waren Acquisition, a company controlled by funds managed or advised by DLJ Merchant Banking III and JP Morgan Partners Warner Chilcott Weil Ashurst, London, Richard Palmer, Thomas Cartwright M&A $13.3 billion and $4.5 billion Ispat International will acquire LNM Holdings. Simultaneously, Ispat International and International Steel Group agreed a merger LNM Holdings. Following completion the company will be renamed Mittal Steel Co Ispat International was advised by Shearman & Sterling LNM Holdings was advised by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, London, Nik Mehta, Kate Habershon M&A Undisclosed Forstmann Little & Company The trustees of the estate of Mark McCormack agreed to sell International Management Group Kirkland & Ellis International Management was advised by Jones Day, New York, John Cornell; Washington, Candace Ridgway; the trustees were advised by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York, Jonathan Lee Koslow, Henry Wasserstein M&A $1.06 billion Aurora Capital Group agreed to acquire K&F Industries in a secondary buyout K&F Industries Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Willkie Farr & Gallagher, New York, Andrew Needham M&A $2.1 billion EnCana Corporation agreed to sell EnCana (UK) Nexen Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Norton Rose, London, Louise Higginbottom M&A $400 million Jones Apparel Group Barneys New York Cravath Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, Andrew Gaines, Stuart Goldring, David Bower, Christine Agnew M&A Undisclosed Osaka Gas of Japan - acquisition of a 50% stake in an electricity power station in the Basque region of Spain from ESB International of Ireland Amorebieta Power Plant KPMG LLP ESB International in-house tax department M&A $3 billion Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group agreed to acquire NextWave Telecom NextWave Telecom Skadden Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, Stuart Goldring, Martin Amdur M&A £400million ($755 million) Prestbury Hotels Portfolio of Travelodge hotels KPMG LLP Deloitte, London, Marvin Rust, Tracy Payton; Clifford Chance, London, Shimaela Anwar M&A $1.23 billion Blackstone Group Boca Resorts Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Shearman & Sterling, New York, Don Lonczak M&A $1.5 billion Kraft Foods Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Slaughter and May Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Chicago, Maxwell Miller Type of deal Value Issuer Lead managers Adviser to Issuer Adviser to lead managers IPO $934 million Dreamworks Animation SKG completed a spin-off IPO The Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Securities Cravath Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Debt facilities ?225 million ($291 million) Compass Partners European Equity Fund (Bermuda) Mizuho Corporate Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Banca Intesa, GSC Partners and RBS Mezzanine PricewaterhouseCoopers Ashurst
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