Type of Deal |
Value |
Acquirer |
Target |
Adviser to acquirer (tax) |
Adviser to target (tax) |
Acquisition |
$11.8 billion |
Eaton |
Cooper Industries |
Fenwick & West / Simpson Thacher & Bartlett / A&L Goodbody / Matheson Ormsby Prentice |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz / Arthur Cox |
Share Buy-back |
$7.1 billion |
Alibaba Group |
Yahoo! |
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz - T. Eiko Stange / Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer |
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom / Munger Tolles & Olson |
Acquisition |
$4.3 billion |
SAP |
Ariba |
Jones Day |
|
Acquisition |
$2.6 billion |
Dalian Wanda |
AMC Entertainment |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
Acquisition |
$1.58 billion |
Lehman Brothers |
Archstone Enterprise |
Weil Gotshal & Manges |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett / Kaye Scholer |
Acquisition |
$1.25 billion |
Silver Lake |
Global Blue |
Weil Gotshal & Manges |
Clifford Chance / Baker & McKenzie |
Acquisition |
$758 million |
Kabel Deutschland Holding |
Tele Columbus Group |
Hengeler Mueller |
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom |
Strategic Investment |
$300 million |
GE |
EBX Group |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell |
|
Acquisition |
$282 million |
Technip |
Stone & Webster Process Technologies |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell |
|
Acquisition |
$99 million |
Ultra Clean Holdings |
American Integration Technologies |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg |
|
Acquisition |
Undisclosed |
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International |
Swiss Herbal Remedies |
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt |
Stikeman Elliott |
Type of Deal |
Value |
Issuer/Borrower |
Lead managers/arrangers |
Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) |
Adviser to lead managers (tax) |
Global Bond Offering |
$3.5 billion |
Province of Ontario |
CIBC / Citigroup / Deutsche Bank / Morgan Stanley |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
|
Initial Public Offering |
$903 million |
Edwards Group |
Barclays / Goldman Sachs / Deutsche Bank |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Brenda Coleman, Sarah Priestley |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
PAITREO |
$879 million |
AGL |
Citigroup / Deutsche Bank |
Freehills / Sidley Austin / Greenwood & Freehills |
King & Wood Mallesons - Scott Heezen |
Senior Unsecured Notes Offering |
$600 million |
Beam |
Barclays / Credit Suisse / Merrill Lynch |
Chadbourne & Parke |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr |
Notes Offering |
$500 million |
Murphy Oil |
J.P. Morgan / Wells Fargo |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell |
|
Common Stock Offering |
$172 million |
Petroleum Development |
Merrill Lynch / J.P. Morgan / Wells Fargo |
Davis Graham & Stubbs |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr |
Common Stock Offering |
$112 million |
GSV Capital |
Citigroup |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Mary Conway |
|
Follow-on Stock Offering |
$110 million |
Angie's List |
Merrill Lynch / Stifel, Nicolaus & Co / Allen & Co / RBC / Oppenheimer & Co. / Wells Fargo |
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg |