Type of Deal |
Value |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
Acquistion |
$10.4 billion |
Vantiv Inc |
Worldpay Group (United Kingdom) |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
Allen & Overy |
Acquisition |
$5.2 billion |
Walgreens Boots Alliance |
Rite Aid Corporation (Sale of 2,186 stores, related distribution assets and inventory) |
Sidley Austin; Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Chase Wink); Jones Day |
Acquisition |
$2.8 billion |
Internet Brands |
WebMD Health Corp |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (Rob Holo and Sophie Staples) |
Shearman & Sterling (Ethan Harris and Ryan Au) |
Acquisition |
$2.2 billion (approx.) |
A wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Philips Holding USA Inc |
The Spectranetics Corporation |
Sullivan & Cromwell (Eric Wang and Michelle Lu) |
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Acquisition |
$2.6 billion |
Liberty Interactive |
HSN |
Baker Botts |
Davis Polk & Wardwell (David H Schnabel) |
Acquisition |
$2.3 billion (approx.) |
L1 Retail |
Holland & Barrett Retail (part of the Carlyle Group) |
Jones Day |
DLA Piper (Holland & Barret); Latham & Watkins (Carlyle Group) |
Acquisition |
$1.6 billion |
Key Safety Systems Inc |
Takata Corporation (Japan) |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Stuart Finkelstein) |
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu; Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
Acquisition |
$1.4 billion (approx.) |
Newly formed company controlled by KKR and Walgreens Boots Alliance |
PharMerica Corporation |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
Davis Polk & Wardwell (Rachel Kleinberg) |
Acquistion |
$1.4 billion |
Michael Kors Holdings |
Jimmy Choo |
Slaughter and May (Sara Luder); Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer |
Acquistion |
$1.4 billion |
Atlantic Broadband (a subsidiary of Cogeco Communications) |
Harron Communications LP's MetroCast cable systems |
Stikeman Elliott; Kirkland & Ellis |
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius |
Acquisition |
$1.4 billion (approx.) |
Red Ventures Holdco |
Bankrate |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
Acquisition |
$1.2 billion (approx.) |
LabCorp |
Chiltern International |
Hogan Lovells; Nixon Peabody |
Hughes Hubbard; Macfarlanes |
Acquisition |
$1.2 billion (approx.) |
The Washington Companies |
Dominion Diamond Corporation |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Dean Kraus and Lindsay Gwyer); Blake, Cassels & Graydon |
Stikeman Elliott |
Acquisition |
$1.2 billion (approx.) |
H&E Equipment Services Inc |
Neff Corporation |
Dechert |
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld |
Acquisition |
$1.1 billion (approx) |
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation |
NeuroDerm |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
White & Case; Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal |
Acquisition |
$1 billion |
Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA |
Penguin Random House (22% stake from Pearson) |
Davis Polk & Wardwell (Ethan R Goldman and Aliza Slansky); Slaughter & May (Tony Beare) |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Paul Davison); Morgan Lewis & Bockius (Richard Zarin) |
Acquisition |
$850 million |
The Sage Group |
Intacct Corporation |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Nathan Giesselman) |
Fenwick & West (Will Skinner and Michael Knobler) |
Type of Deal |
Value |
ssuer/Borrower |
Lead managers/arrangers |
Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) |
Adviser to lead managers (tax) |
Senior notes offering |
$7 billion |
Morgan Stanley |
Davis Polk & Wardwell (Po Sit, Lucy Farr and Andrew Smith); Sidley Austin (Nicholas Brown and Joshua Lingerfelt) |
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Notes offering |
$4.25 billion |
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group |
Davis Polk & Wardwell (John Paton, Alon Gurfinkel and Omer Harel) |
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Senior notes offering |
$2.25 billion |
General Motors Financial Company |
AmeriCredit Financial Services |
Davis Polk & Wardwell (Lucy Farr and Gil Savir) |
|
Notes offering |
$1.5 billion |
Baidu |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |