International Corporate Finance

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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
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