FA: Financial Advisor LA: Legal Advisor
USA TOP 10 M&A DEALS
July 2015 - June 2016
DATE DEAL VALUE
USD
(MILLIONS)
TARGET
COMPANY
DEAL
DOMINANT
INDUSTRY
BIDDER BIDDER
ADVISORS
SELLER SELLER
ADVISORS
11/12/2015 76 971 The Dow Chemical
Company
Chemicals and
materials
E. I. du Pont de
Nemours and
Company
FA: Evercore Partners; Gold-
man Sachs
LA: Allens; Cravath, Swaine &
Moore; Debevoise & Plimpton;
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher
& Flom
The Dow Chemi-
cal Company
FA: Klein and Company; Lazard;
Morgan Stanley
LA: Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton; McCarthy Tetrault;
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett;
Weil Gotshal & Manges
12/10/2015 63 263 EMC Corporation
Computer
services Dell
FA: Bank of America Merrill
Lynch; Barclays; Citi; Credit
Suisse; Deutsche Bank; Gold-
man Sachs; JPMorgan; Lazard;
LionTree Advisors; Moelis &
Company; RBC Capital Markets;
UBS Investment Bank
LA: Blake, Cassels & Graydon;
Hogan Lovells International;
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett;
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
EMC Corporation
FA: Evercore Partners; Morgan
Stanley; Needham & Company
LA: Debevoise & Plimpton;
Morrison & Foerster; Skadden
Arps Slate Meagher & Flom;
Weil Gotshal & Manges
24/07/2015 50 418 Cigna Corporation Medical Anthem
FA: Credit Suisse; UBS Invest-
ment Bank
LA: Gibson Dunn & Crutcher;
Latham & Watkins; White &
Case
Cigna Corporation
FA: Morgan Stanley
LA: Cravath, Swaine & Moore;
Majmudar & Partners; Sidley
Austin; Weil Gotshal & Manges
27/07/2015 40 500 Allergan (Generics
business)
Medical: Phar-
maceuticals
Teva Pharmaceuti-
cal Industries
FA: Barclays; Greenhill & Co
LA: Davies Ward Phillips &
Vineberg; De Brauw Blackstone
Westbroek; Kirkland & Ellis;
Sullivan & Cromwell; Tulchi-
nsky Stern & Company
Allergan
FA: JPMorgan
LA: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Ha-
milton; Debevoise & Plimpton;
Latham & Watkins; Stikeman
Elliott; Weil Gotshal & Manges
10/08/2015 36 541 Precision Castparts
Industrial
products and
services
Berkshire Ha-
thaway
LA: Franklin Societe d'Avocats;
Munger Tolles & Olson
Precision Cast-
parts
FA: Bank of America Merrill
Lynch; Citi; Credit Suisse
LA: Alston & Bird; Cravath,
Swaine & Moore; Stoel Rives
03/07/2015 36 340 Humana
Financial
Services Aetna
FA: Citi; Lazard
LA: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Ha-
milton; Davis Polk & Wardwell;
Jones Day; Richards Layton &
Finger; Shearman & Sterling;
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Humana
FA: Goldman Sachs
LA: Fried Frank Harris Shriver
& Jacobson; Gibson Dunn &
Crutcher; Morris Nichols Arsht
& Tunnell; Skadden Arps Slate
Meagher & Flom
11/01/2016 35 219 Baxalta Medical: Phar-
maceuticals
Shire
FA: Barclays; Deutsche Bank;
Evercore Partners; Morgan
Stanley
LA: Arthur Cox; Cravath,
Swaine & Moore; Freshfields
Bruckhaus Deringer; Ropes &
Gray; Slaughter and May
Baxalta
FA: Citi; Goldman Sachs
LA: Fried Frank Harris Shriver
& Jacobson; Jones Day;
Kirkland & Ellis; Skadden Arps
Slate Meagher & Flom; White
& Case
01/10/2015 33 818
Hewlett Packard
Enterprise Company
Computer
software
Hewlett-Pac-
kard Company
(Shareholders)
N/A HP
FA: Goldman Sachs
LA: Baker & McKenzie; Fresh-
fields Bruckhaus Deringer;
Simonsen Vogt Wiig; Skadden
Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
28/04/2016 29 850 St. Jude Medical Medical Abbott Labora-
tories
FA: Bank of America Merrill
Lynch; Evercore Partners
LA: Baker & McKenzie; Baker
Botts; Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton; Davis Polk & Ward-
well; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen &
Katz; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich
& Rosati
St. Jude Medical
FA: Guggenheim Partners
LA: Gibson Dunn & Crutcher;
White & Case
01/07/2015 28 251
The Chubb Corpo-
ration
Financial
Services ACE
FA: Morgan Stanley
LA: Baer & Karrer; Brigard &
Urrutia; Clifford Chance; Davis
Polk & Wardwell; Sidley Austin;
Sullivan & Cromwell
The Chubb
Corporation
FA: Guggenheim Partners
LA: Barun Law; Gibson Dunn
& Crutcher); Lenz & Staehelin;
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz