Type of deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $4.7 billion Blackstone Group Sale by Northrop Grumman of TRW's Automotive Division Deloitte & Touche, New York, Deanna Dudzinski; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer, London, Jonathan Cooklin Acquisition $250 million Soros Private Equity Partners Sale by Degussa and Bayer of Polymer Latex Allen & Overy, Frankfurt, Eugen Bogenschuetz Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer, Munich, Hans-Joerg Ziegenhain Acquisition $615 million CNOOC North Caspian Sea BG Group is to sell an 8.33% interest in the North Caspian Sea Production Sharing Agreement Merril Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston Allen & Overy, London, David Lewis Acquisition Undisclosed Heijmans J B Leadbitter & Co Allen & Overy, London, David Lewis, Daniel Lewin, Negin Mainakaran Wedlake Bell, London, Robin Dabydeen Demerger £4.8 billion ($7.5 billion) Six Continents plc was split into two holding companies: Mitchells & Butlers, InterContinental Hotels Group Six Continents Allen & Overy advised Mitchells & Butlers and InterContinental Hotels Group, London, David Lewis, Anne Powell Linklaters, London, Charles Hellier, Stephen Pevsner Acquisition £543 million ($846 million) Acquistion by The Royal Bank of Scotland of 80% of Southern Water Southern Water Linklaters, London, Martin Lynchehan, Elizabeth Conway, Richard Hawkins Simmons & Simmons, London, Nick Cronkshaw Acquisition $1 billion Bain Capital SigmaKalon Kirkland & Ellis Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer, London, Francis Sandison Acquisition $76.2 million Euronet Worldwide e-pay Squire Sanders & Dempsey Lawrence Graham, London Michael Murphy, Elizabeth Ashby Acquisition £1.67 billion ($2.61 billion) Smith & Nephew Centerpulse Ashurst Morris Crisp Lehman Brothers, London, Kenneth Siegel, Henry Phillips and Joseph Kohls, UBS Warburg, London, Karl Schmidt and Liam Beere Acquisition £414 million ($648 million) Avenue Acquisition Coats CMS Cameron McKenna, London, Richard Croker, Sarah Buxton Slaughter & May, London, Nigel Boardman, Simon Robinson, Roland Turnhill, Christopher Field Acquisition ?19.5 billion ($21 billion) Crédit Agricole Crédit Lyonnais Bredin Prat; Clifford Chance Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Paris, Gilles Entraygues, Pascal Coudin, Anne-Sophie Coustel Acquisition $350 million Evercore Partners and its portfolio company American Media Weider Publications Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York, Gary Mandel Latham & Watkins
March 31 2003
