| APPROXIMATE VALUE OF TRANSACTION | ACQUIRING COMPANY | ACQUIRED, SELLING OR TARGET COMPANY | TYPE OF TRANSACTION | MATTER CLIENT |
| $58 billion
|
Enel S.p.A. and Acciona S.A.
|
Endesa S.A.
|
Tender Offer
|
Enel S.p.A.
|
| $45 billion
|
Consortium led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Texas Pacific Group
|
TXU Corporation
|
LBO/Cash Merger
|
Consortium led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Texas Pacific Group
|
| $39 billion
|
The Blackstone Group
|
Equity Office Properties Trust
|
LBO
|
The Blackstone Group
|
| $38.3 billion
|
Private Equity Consortium
|
HCA Inc.
|
LBO
|
Private equity consortium (including Thomas Frist Sr., Thomas Frist Jr., Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Bain Capital LLC and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity)
|
| $29 billion
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
|
First Data Corp.
|
LBO/Cash Merger
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
|
| $25.9 billion
|
Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.
|
Phelps Dodge Corp.
|
Cash and Stock Merger
|
J.P. Morgan Securities and Merrill Lynch & Co., financial advisors to Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold Inc.
|
| $24 billion
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Stefano Pessina (majority shareholder)
|
Alliance Boots plc
|
LBO
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Stefano Pessina
|
| $14 billion
|
Aluminum Corporation of China
|
Rio Tinto plc
|
Acquisition of Interest
|
Aluminum Corporation of China
|
| $21 billion
|
CVS Corp.
|
Caremark RX Inc.
|
Stock Merger
|
Evercore Partners, financial advisor to CVS Corp.
|
| $14 billion
|
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.
|
Rinker Group Limited
|
Hostile Cash Tender Offer
|
Rinker Group Limited
|
| $13 billion
|
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.
|
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.
|
Merger of Equals
|
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.
|
| $8.3 billion
|
Private Equity Consortium (including Thomas H. Lee Partners, Warburg Pincus LLC, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and J.P. Morgan Partners LLC)
|
ARAMARK Corp.
|
LBO/Acquisition
|
Private Equity Consortium
|
| $8 billion
|
The Lightstone Group
|
Extended Stay Hotels (The Blackstone Group)
|
LBO/Sale of Assets
|
The Blackstone Group
|
| $7.8 billion
|
Blackstone Capital Partners V L.P.
|
Alliance Data Systems Corporation
|
LBO/Cash Merger
|
The Blackstone Group
|
| $7.75 billion
|
Apax Partners and Omers Capital Partners
|
Thomson Corp.’s education division
|
LBO
|
Apax Partners
|
| $7.3 billion
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
|
Dollar General Corporation
|
LBO/Cash Merger
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
|
| $7.1 billion
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.
|
Royal Ahold NV’s US Foodservice Inc.
|
LBO
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.
|
| $6.8 billion
|
Wachovia Corporation
|
A.G. Edwards, Inc.
|
Cash and Stock Merger
|
Wachovia Corporation
|
| $6.2 billion
|
Hologic Inc.
|
Cytyc Inc.
|
Cash and Stock Merger
|
Goldman, Sachs & Co., financial advisor to Hologic Inc.
|
| $6 billion
|
Hindalco Industries Limited
|
Novelis Inc.
|
Cash Merger
|
Evercore Partners, financial advisor to Novelis Inc.
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