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BREAKING NEWS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Finalists Announced for the 4th Annual International M&A Advisor Awards Top Cross-Border Transactions, Restructuring, Deal Financing, Product/Service, Firms and Dealmakers to
be honored October 10th at the New York Athletic Club in New York, NY.
New York, NY, August 31, 2012 – The M&A Advisor is pleased to announce 228 nominations,
representing over 350 companies, are being evaluated for the 4th Annual International M&A Advisor Awards.
The Finalist companies have been selected from the nominees in the first stage of evaluation and the
independent panel of judges will now focus their attention on the challenging task of selecting the ultimate
award winners.
The winners for the M&A Deal of the Year, Sector Deal of the Year, Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the
Year, Restructuring of the Year, Deal Financing of the Year, Firms of the Year, M&A Product/Services of the
Year and International Dealmaker of the Year categories will be announced at the 4th Annual International
M&A Advisor Awards Gala on Wednesday, October 10th at the New York Athletic Club in New York, New
York.
"We are currently witnessing the transformation of firms and dealmakers into Global leaders whose intimate
knowledge and expertise in the cultural, financial and legal arenas are redefining our industry,” says Roger
Aguinaldo, CEO of The M&A Advisor. “The increasing volume of cross border M&A is testament to the claim
that business truly knows no boundaries.”
This year’s finalists represent the industry’s leading firms, including: Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
LLP; Goldman Sachs; Ernst & Young; Houlihan Lokey; Webber Wentzel; White & Case LLP; Business
Development Asia; Macquarie Capital; Tegris Advisors; Greenberg Traurig LLP; Generational Capital Markets
and FTI Consulting; and feature the year’s leading international transactions including: Microsoft
Corporation’s acquisition of Skype Global S.a.r.l.; Merger of and Justice Holdings Ltd.; Acquisition of a
controlling interest in Massmart Holdings Limited by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; ICBC Acquisition of BEA;
Acquisition of Avis Europe by Avis Budget Group, Inc.; Acquisition of EMI Music Publishing by Sony
Corporation of America; Acquisition of Zhiqiang Food Co. (“Joysun”) by Lunar Capital; Acquisition of Nortel
Networks Corporation’s Patent Portfolio by Rockstar Consortium and the Acquisition of Volksbank
International Banking Network by Sberbank
A detailed list of all of the Award Finalists for the 4th Annual International M&A Awards is to
follow. For more information, please visit www.maadvisor.com or contact The M&A Advisor at
718 997 7900.
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2012 INTERNATIONAL M&A AWARDS FINALISTS
The finalists for the following categories: M&A Deal of the Year;
Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year; Restructuring of the Year;
Deal Financing of the Year; Firm of The Year; Product/Service of the Year;
Sector Deals of the Year; and Deal Maker of the Year are as follows:
I. M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR
M&A Deal of the Year (Over $3 Billion)
Acquisition of Talecris by Grifols
S.A.
Proskauer Rose LLP Grifols S.A.
Osborne Clarke Europe DS, Associated Lawyers Proskauer Rose LLP Talecris Biotherapeutics
Acquisition of Skype Global S.a.r.l.
by Microsoft Corporation
Merrill DataSite
Goldman Sachs JP Morgan Microsoft Corporation
Silver Lake Partners Skype Global S.a.r.l.
Acquisition of Nortel Networks’
Patents Portfolio by Rockstar Bidco
Paul Weiss Shearman & Sterling LLP
Apple Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP
Ericsson Jefferies & Company, Inc. Lazard Ltd.
Microsoft Nortel
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP RIM SEB Enskilda
Sony
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Merger of Burger King and Justice
Holdings Ltd.
Tegris Advisors Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Barclays Capital Burger King
Justice Holdings Ltd. Price WaterHouse Coopers LLP Sullivan and Cromwell LLP
Acquisition of a Controlling
Interest in Massmart Holdings
Limited by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Webber Wentzel
Deloitte Deutsche Bank Edward Nathan Sonnenberg
Ernst&Young Goldman Sachs
JPMorgan Chase Inc Massmart Holdings Limited Merill Data site
RBB Economics Rothschilds
Wal-Mart Stores
Acquisition of Aker Drilling by
Transocean
FTI Consulting
Aker Capital AS Fearnley Fonds / Fearnley Offshore
Morgan Stanley Transocean Wikborg Rein
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Sberbank (Russia) Purchase of
Volksbank International Banking
Network (CEE region)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Schoenherr Attorneys at Law
Banque Populaire Caisse d'Epargne S.A. Bredin Prat
Citigroup Deloitte Deutsche Bank
Dorda Brugger Jordis DZ BANK AG
Ithuba Capital JP Morgan Limited KPMG
Oliver Wyman LLC Österreichische Volksbanken AG
PricewaterhouseCoopers Sberbank of Russia Société Générale
Volksbank International AG WGZ BANK AG
Acquisition of Delphi Financial
Group by Tokio Marine’s
Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. Delphi Financial Group, Inc.
KPMG Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
M&A Deal of the Year (Between $1 Billion and $3 Billion)
Privatisation of the ASX-listed
Charter Hall Office REIT
Macquarie Capital Allens Linklaters Charter Hall Office REIT
Government of Singapore Investment Corporation
KPMG Public Sector Pension Investment Board
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Acquisition of MYOB by Bain
Capital
Ropes & Gray
Allens Arthur Robinson
Bain Capital
Clayton Utz
Corrs Chambers Westgate
Morgan Stanley
MYOB
PwC
Acquisition of Liberty Dialysis
Holdings, Inc. by Fresenius
Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Barclays Capital Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA Liberty Dialysis Holdings, Inc.
Ropes & Gray LLP
Merger of Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Inc. (Jazz Inc) and Azur Pharma
Ltd (Azur)
A&L Goodbody
Minor Acquisition of Energias de
Portugal S.A. by China Three
Gorges
Skadden, Arps
Acquisition of Entire Issued
Share Capital of Cúram Software
Limited (Cúram) by IBM
International Group B.V. (IBM
B.V.)
A&L Goodbody Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Curam Software IBM
Acquisition of Metorex Limited by
Jinchuan Group Limited
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc
Allen & Overy DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Goldman Sachs Asia
Goldman Sachs SA Intralinks
Jinchuan Group KPMG Services (Proprietary) Limited Metorex Limited
Standard Bank
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Acquisition of Hancock Coal
mines by GVK Group
Ernst & Young Pvt Ltd Amarchand & Mangaldas
Minter Ellison Lawyers
M&A Deal of the Year (Between $250mm and $1 Billion)
Acquisition of Ferretti S.p.A. by
Weichai Group Holdings Limited
Houlihan Lokey D’Urso Gatti e Bianchi
Ernst & Young Ferretti S.p.A. Houlihan Lokey
HSBC ICBC
King & Wood The Royal Bank of Scotland Weichai Group Holdings Limited
Acquisition of Hilite International
by 3i Group
Houlihan Lokey
3i Group Clifford Chance E&Y Team
Hilite Lazard Freres & Co
Merrill Datasite PwC Team
Purchase of the 100 Percent of
the Shares of Polimer Kaucuk
(SEL Hortum) by Eaton Corp.
Global M&A International admincontrol
Eaton Corp Global M&A Turkey Polimer Kaucuk
Price Waterhouse Coopers White & Case
YTY Law
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Anglo American plc Divestment
of its Scaw Metals Group
Webber Wentzel Anglo American plc
Edward Nathan Sonnenburg ERM Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd
IDC Izingwe Holdings (Proprietary) Limited Linklaters
Nortons PwC
Rand Merchant Bank Shanduka Resources (Proprietary) Limited Southern Palace Group of Companies Ltd.
UBS/Goldman Sachs
Acquisition of Tracker
Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd by
Actis, RMB Ventures
(Proprietary) Limited and MIC
Investment Holdings
(Proprietary) Limited
Webber Wentzel Actis DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
FirstRand Bank Limited MIC Investment Holdings
Nedbank Capital divisions Nedbank Corporate Nedbank Limited
Newman Lowther & Associates PwC
Rand Merchant Bank division Remgro Limited
RMB Ventures, Standard Bank of South Africa Limited Tracking and Signal Technologies Limited
Acquisition of Hayes Lemmerz
(Proskauer) by Iochpe-Maxion
Proskauer Rose LLP
Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc. Iochpe-Maxion S.A.
Acquisition of Elan Drug
Technologies from Elan
Corporation Plc by Alkermes, Inc
A&L Goodbody
Alkermes Elan FTI Consulting
Acquisition of Old World
Chemicals by Indorama
William Blair & Company
Bracewell & Giuliani Indorama Ventures PCL Old World Industries, LLC
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M&A Deal of the Year (Between $100mm and $250mm)
Equity Investment in Royal
Camp Services, Ltd. by
Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney &
Company, Inc.
Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Co.
Bank of Montreal BMO Capital Partners
Flackman, Goodman & Potter Kaiser Associates Lazard Middle Market
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP TriWest Capital Partners
Acquisition of BEA (The first-ever
acquisition of a US bank by a
Chinese bank) by ICBC
White & Case Sullivan & Cromwell
Sale of Power Distribution Inc to
Smiths plc
Bertram Capital Hirschler Fleischer
Lincoln International Morgan Stanley
Smiths Group plc Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP
Acquisition of Ophir Optronics
Ltd. by Newport Corp (Nasdaq:
NEWP)
Headwaters MB LCC Bank of America
Bingham McCutchen LLP Deloitte & Touche
Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg & Co. Headwaters MB
Naschitz Brandes & Co Newport Corp.
Ophir Optronics Ltd.
M&A Deal of the Year (Between $50mm and $100mm)
Acquisition of BOB Trailers, Inc.
by Britax Group Limited
Capstone Partners LLC Ashurst LLP BOB Trailers, Inc.
Britax Group Limited Eide Bailly, LLP
KPMG LLP Moffat Thomas Barrett Rock & Fields, CHTD
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Acquisition of Dow AgriSciences
LLC’s (USA) European
“Mancozeb” (fungicide) Business
by Indofil Industries Limited
(India)
YES BANK Limited Bain & Company ANK Limited
Bird & Bird Dow AgriSciences LLC Indofil Industries Ltd
KPMG
Acquisition of 4 oil rigs by John
Energy Limited
Ernst & Young Pvt Ltd Desai & Desai ICICI Bank
IL&FS
Sale of O.K. Industries, Inc. to
Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de
C.V.
SSG Capital Advisors, LLC Bachoco KPMG Mexico
McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP O.K. Industries, Inc.
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Acquisition of Energy Products of
Idaho by Outotec Oyj
D.A. Davidson & Co.
Energy Products of Idaho Ernst & Young LLP
Fredericks Michael & Co. Golder Associates Greene Radovsky Maloney Share & Hennigh
Janice Loux CPA Merrill Corporation
Outotec Oyj Shearman & Sterling LLP
Acquisition of NAPC by Eurovia,
a Vinci Group Subisidiary
Ernst & Young Pvt Ltd
M&A Deal of the Year (Between $10mm and $50mm)
Acquisition of Sonar6 by
Cornerstone OnDemand
Harbor View Advisors, LLC Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.
Ernst & Young Limited Harbor View Advisors, LLC Lowenstein Sandler
RR Donnelley - Venue Sonar Limited (dba Sonar6)
Wilson Sonsini
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Acquisition of Interlabels
Industries Pvt Limited (India) by
Skanem AS (Norway)
YES BANK Limited Ernst & Young Pvt Ltd
Alliance Legal India Partners Interlabels Industries Private Limited
Iseme, Kamau & Maema, Advocates J. Sagar & Associates Kaplan & Stratton
Skanem AS
Sale of Creative Electronic
Systems SA to a Consortium of
Private Equity
Headwaters MB Chess Consulting LLC Dimension SA
Ernst & Young Kaye Scholer LLP
LFPE S.A. MRV Communications, Inc. Python & Peter
Schellenberg Wittmer Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Union Bank of Switzerland Vinci Capital
Acquisition of Tarasoft
Corporation by CoreLogic
Generational Capital Markets, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC
Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP
CoreLogic Lam Lo Nishio Chartered Accountants Tarasoft Corporation
The Sale B2B-Center by Russian
Funds Investment Group
ALPHA Associates
B2B-Center Da Vinci Capital Management Insight Venture Partners
Runa Capital Russian Funds Investment Group
Willkie Far & Gallagher LLP
Synergy Health plc Merger with
SRI/Surgical Express, Inc.
McColl Partners, LLC
DLA Piper FirmEx
Hill Ward Henderson KPMG
McColl Partners, LLC SRI/Surgical Express, Inc. Synergy Health plc (LSE:SYR)
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Sale Of Union Tractor, Ltd. to
Mill City Capital
Greene Holcomb & Fisher LLC Blue Tee, Inc.
Faegre & Benson Bennett Jones Mill City Capital
Northstar Capital Ogilvey Law Firm (Edmonton)
Acquisition of Zhiqiang Food Co.
(“Joysun”) by Lunar Capital
Business Development Asia Lunar Capital
Sichuan Zhiqiang Food Co. Ltd.
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II. CORPORATE/STRATEGIC ACQUISITION DEAL OF THE YEAR
Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year (Over $1 Billion)
France Telecom’s US$3.35
Billion Tender Offer for MobiNil /
ECMS and Related Transaction
with Orascom Telecom Media
and Technology
Dechert Cleary Gottlieb LLP
France Telecom Lazard Frères Orascom Telecom Media & Technology Holding SAE
Acquisition of Aker Drilling by
Transocean
FTI Consulting Aker Capital AS
Fearnley Fonds / Fearnley Offshore Morgan Stanley Transocean
Wikborg Rein
Acquisition of Delphi Financial
Group by Tokio Marine’s
Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. Delphi Financial Group, Inc. KPMG
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
Acquisition of Talecris by Grifols
S.A.
Proskauer Rose LLP
Grifols S.A. Osborne Clarke Europe DS, Associated Lawyers
Proskauer Rose LLP Talecris Biotherapeutics
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Sberbank (Russia) Purchase of
Volksbank International Banking
Network (CEE region)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Schoenherr Attorneys at Law
Banque Populaire Caisse d'Epargne S.A. Bredin Prat
Citigroup Deloitte Deutsche Bank
Dorda Brugger Jordis DZ BANK AG
Ithuba Capital JP Morgan Limited KPMG
Oliver Wyman LLC Österreichische Volksbanken AG
PricewaterhouseCoopers Sberbank of Russia Société Générale
Volksbank International AG WGZ BANK AG
BP takes 30 Percent Stake in 23
oil and gas Production Sharing
Contracts That Reliance
Operates in India
Vinson & Elkins
Allen & Overy
AZB & Partners
BP
Linklaters
Morgan Stanley
Reliance
Talwar Thakore & Associates
Vinson & Elkins
Acquisition of EMI Music
Publishing by Sony Corporation
of America
White & Case
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Clifford Chance LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Shearman & Sterling LLP
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Acquisition of 60 Percent of Hsu
Fu Chi by Nestle S.A.
White & Case
Maples and Calder Reed Smith
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Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year
(Between $100mm and $1 Billion)
Acquisition of Ophir Optronics
Ltd. by Newport Corp (Nasdaq:
NEWP)
Headwaters MB LCC Bank of America
Bingham McCutchen LLP Deloitte & Touche
Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg & Co. Headwaters MB
Naschitz Brandes & Co Newport Corp.
Ophir Optronics Ltd.
Acquisition of Ferretti S.p.A. by
Weichai Group Holdings Limited
Houlihan Lokey
D’Urso Gatti e Bianchi Ernst & Young
Ferretti S.p.A. Houlihan Lokey HSBC
ICBC King & Wood
The Royal Bank of Scotland Weichai Group Holdings Limited
Purchase of the 100 Percent of
the Shares of Polimer Kaucuk
(SEL Hortum) by Eaton Corp.
Global M&A International admincontrol
Eaton Corp Global M&A Turkey Polimer Kaucuk
Price Waterhouse Coopers White & Case
YTY Law
Acquisition of Avis Europe Plc by
Avis Budget Group, Inc.
Avis Budget Group, Inc. Avis Europe Plc Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division
Life Healthcare Acquires 26
Percent Stake in Max Healthcare
Ernst & Young Pvt Ltd Luthra & Luthra
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Acquisition of BEA (The first-ever
acquisition of a US bank by a
Chinese bank) by ICBC
White & Case Sullivan & Cromwell
Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year
(Between $50mm and $100mm)
Acquisition of BOB Trailers, Inc.
by Britax Group Limited
Capstone Partners LLC Capstone Partners LLC Britax Group Limited BOB Trailers, Inc.
Capstone Partners LLC Ashurst LLP
Moffat Thomas Barrett Rock & Fields, CHTD KPMG LLP Eide Bailly, LLP
Port-A-Cool LLC, a Portfolio
Company of Rosewood Private
Investments and its Co-
investors, has Been Acquired
by Walter Meier
MHT Partners, LP
Axley & Rode Haynes and Boone, LLP Port-A-Cool LLC
Walter Meier Wells Fargo
Acquisition of Dow AgriSciences
LLC’s (USA) European
“Mancozeb” (fungicide)
Business by Indofil Industries
Limited (India)
YES BANK Limited Bain & Company ANK Limited Bird & Bird
Dow AgriSciences LLC Indofil Industries Ltd
KPMG
Acquisition of Energy Products
of Idaho by Outotec Oyj
D.A. Davidson & Co.
Energy Products of Idaho Ernst & Young LLP Fredericks Michael & Co.
Golder Associates Greene Radovsky Maloney Share & Hennigh
Janice Loux CPA Merrill Corporation Outotec Oyj
Shearman & Sterling LLP
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Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year (Between $10mm and $50mm)
Strategic Global Alliance
Between SRG Global and
FALTEC Co.
Business Development Asia
FALTEC SRG Global
Acquisition of Sonar6 by
Cornerstone OnDemand
Harbor View Advisors, LLC
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. Ernst & Young Limited
Harbor View Advisors, LLC Lowenstein Sandler RR Donnelley - Venue
Sonar Limited (dba Sonar6) Wilson Sonsini
Acquisition of Pea Ridge Iron
Ore Mine by MFC Industrial
Allen & Caron Investor Relations Alberici Group, Inc
Behre Dolbear & Co. (USA) MFC Industrial Alberci Group Inc
Sangra Moller Wings Enterprises
Acquisition of Interlabels
Industries Pvt Limited (India) by
Skanem AS (Norway)
YES BANK Limited Ernst & Young Pvt Ltd
Alliance Legal India Partners Interlabels Industries Private Limited
Iseme, Kamau & Maema, Advocates J. Sagar & Associates Kaplan & Stratton
Skanem AS
Acquisition of Zhiqiang Food Co.
(“Joysun”) by Lunar Capital
Business Development Asia Lunar Capital Sichuan Zhiqiang Food Co. Ltd.
Acquisition of 50 percent Equity
Stake in Legacy Iron Ore
Limited
Ernst & Young
Acquisition of Tarasoft
Corporation by CoreLogic
Generational Capital Markets, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC
Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP CoreLogic Lam Lo Nishio Chartered Accountants
Tarasoft Corporation
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The Weir Group Acquires Valves
Business from HIM Tech, Korea
Business Development Asia
HIM Tech Co. PwC The Weir Group, PLC
III. RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR
Out-of-Court Restructuring of
PlayPower, Inc.
Miller Buckfire & Co. Apollo Investment Management
Mackinac Partners PlayPower, Inc./Mackinac Partners
UBS AG Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Restructuring of Travelport
Limited and Travelport Holdings
Limited
Skadden, Arps
Chukchansi Gold Resort &
Casino Debt Restructuring
The Seaport Group Chukchansi Economic Development Authority
Faegre & Benson GLC Advisors
Latham & Watkins Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP Rosette & Associate
Whetstone LLP
The Restructuring of the
Shareholding of Each of Cell-C,
Convergence and Dimension
Data in FibreCo
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc
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IV. DEAL FINANCING OF THE YEAR
Acquisition of MYOB by Bain
Capital
Ropes & Gray
Allens Arthur Robinson Bain Capital
Clayton Utz Corrs Chambers Westgate Morgan Stanley
MYOB PwC
Development of a Secure DIP
Facility by Barclays Bank
Skadden, Arps Barclays PLC
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown Morrison & Foerster Morrison Cohen
Acquisition of Delphi Financial
Group by Tokio Marine’s
Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.
Delphi Financial Group, Inc. KPMG Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
Bain Capital Restructuring and
Dividen Recapitalizations
Ropes & Gray Anderson Mori
Bain Capital Baker McKenzie
Bellsystems 24 Dominos Pizza
Momo-o, Matsuo & Namba Nagashima & Ohno Nomura Securities
PwC
Acquisition of Ferretti S.p.A. by
Weichai Group Holdings Limited
Houlihan Lokey D’Urso Gatti e Bianchi Ernst & Young
Ferretti S.p.A. Houlihan Lokey
HSBC ICBC King & Wood
The Royal Bank of Scotland Weichai Group Holdings Limited
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Project Fino Appleby
Barclays Bank plc Deloitte LLP
Deutsche Bank FSHC (Guernsey) Holdings Limited Gleacher Shacklock
Goldman Sachs Latham Watkins
Rothschild Terra Firma Coinvestment Fund
Terra Firma Fund III
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V. DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
Guy Alexander, Co-Head of Allens’ M&A and Equity Capital Markets, Allens Linklaters
Christo Els, Partner, Webber Wentzel
Sergio Galvis, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
Euan Rellie, Senior Managing Director, Business Development Asia
John Rovani, Senior Managing Director, The McLean Group, LLC
Dieter A. Schmitz, Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
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VI. M&A PRODUCT/SERVICE OF THE YEAR
Professional Service/Portfolio Companies
Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd.
SRS MAX
Tasman Consulting Post-Merger Human
Capital Integration Services
VSA Consulting Group LLC
Information Management
EMIS DealWatch
Merrill DataSite
S&P Capital IQ
V-Rooms Virtual Data Rooms
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VII. FIRM OF THE YEAR
Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year
Capstone Partners LLC
Greene Holcomb & Fisher LLC
Record Point
Tegris Advisors
Private Equity Firm of the Year
3i Group Plc
Audax Private Equity
AXA Private Equity
H.I.G. Capital, LLC
CVC Partners
EQT Partners
LeapFrog Investments
Sun European Partners
Accounting/Due Diligence Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd.
KPMG
ShineWing
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Valuation Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd.
Houlihan Lokey
Valuation Research Group
Law Firm of the Year
A&L Goodbody
Clifford Chance
Dechert LLP
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc.
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Torys LLP
Webber Wentzel
White & Case LLP
Marketing/PR Firm of the Year
BackBay Communications, Inc.
FTI Consulting
Infinite Public Relations, LLC
LANE PR
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Investment Banking Firm of the Year
Business Development Asia (BDA)
Deloitte
Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd.
Headwaters MB, LLC
Houlihan Lokey
William Blair & Company
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VIII. SECTOR DEAL OF THE YEAR AWARDS
Healthcare/Life Sciences
Acquisition of Liberty Dialysis
Holdings, Inc. by Fresenius
Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Baker & McKenzie LLP Barclays Capital
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA Liberty Dialysis Holdings, Inc. Ropes & Gray LLP
Acquisition of Talecris by Grifols
S.A.
Proskauer Rose LLP
Grifols S.A. Osborne Clarke Europe DS, Associated Lawyers Proskauer Rose LLP
Talecris Biotherapeutics
Synergy Health plc Merger with
SRI/Surgical Express, Inc.
McColl Partners, LLC DLA Piper FirmEx
Hill Ward Henderson KPMG
McColl Partners, LLC SRI/Surgical Express, Inc.
Synergy Health plc (LSE:SYR)
Acquisition of Elan Drug
Technologies from Elan
Corporation Plc by Alkermes, Inc
A&L Goodbody
Alkermes Elan
FTI Consulting
Industrial Manufacturing/Distribution (Between $100mm and $1 Billion)
Sale of Power Distribution Inc
to Smiths plc
Bertram Capital
Hirschler Fleischer Lincoln International Morgan Stanley
Smiths Group plc Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP
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Out-of-Court Restructuring of
PlayPower, Inc.
Miller Buckfire & Co. Apollo Investment Management
Mackinac Partners PlayPower, Inc./Mackinac Partners
UBS AG Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Acquisition of Ophir Optronics
Ltd. by Newport Corp
(Nasdaq: NEWP)
Headwaters MB LCC Bank of America
Bingham McCutchen LLP Deloitte & Touche Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg & Co.
Naschitz Brandes & Co Newport Corp.
Ophir Optronics Ltd.
Acquisition of Hilite
International by 3i Group
Houlihan Lokey
3i Group Clifford Chance
E&Y Team Hilite Lazard Freres & Co
Merrill Datasite PwC Team
Purchase of the 100 Percent
of the Shares of Polimer
Kaucuk (SEL Hortum) by
Eaton Corp.
Global M&A International
admincontrol Eaton Corp Global M&A Turkey
Polimer Kaucuk Price Waterhouse Coopers
White & Case YTY Law
Acquisition of Hayes Lemmerz
(Proskauer) by Iochpe-
Maxion
Proskauer Rose LLP Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc.
Iochpe-Maxion S.A.
Acquisition of Royal Dutch
Shell by Vitol Group and
Helios Investment Partners
Skadden, Arps
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Acquisition of Old World
Chemicals by Indorama
William Blair & Company Bracewell & Giuliani
Indorama Ventures PCL Old World Industries, LLC
Industrial Manufacturing/Distribution (Between $10mm and $100mm)
Strategic Global Alliance
Between SRG Global and
FALTEC Co.
Business Development Asia FALTEC
SRG Global
Acquisition of Interlabels
Industries Pvt Limited (India)
by Skanem AS (Norway)
YES BANK Limited Ernst & Young Pvt Ltd
Alliance Legal India Partners Interlabels Industries Private Limited
Iseme, Kamau & Maema, Advocates J. Sagar & Associates Kaplan & Stratton
Skanem AS
Sale of Creative Electronic
Systems SA to a Consortium
of Private Equity
Headwaters MB Chess Consulting LLC Dimension SA
Ernst & Young Kaye Scholer LLP
LFPE S.A. MRV Communications, Inc. Python & Peter
Schellenberg Wittmer Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Union Bank of Switzerland Vinci Capital
Sale of Union Tractor, Ltd. To
Mill City Capital
Greene Holcomb & Fisher LLC Blue Tee, Inc.
Faegre & Benson Bennett Jones Mill City Capital Northstar Capital
Ogilvey Law Firm (Edmonton)
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The Weir Group acquires
valves business from HIM
Tech, Korea
Business Development Asia HIM Tech Co.
PwC The Weir Group, PLC
Port-A-Cool LLC, a Portfolio
Company of Rosewood
Private Investments and its
Co-investors, has Been
Acquired by Walter Meier
MHT Partners, LP Axley & Rode
Haynes and Boone, LLP Port-A-Cool LLC
Walter Meier Wells Fargo
Financial Services Deal of the Year
Acquisition of Delphi Financial
Group by Tokio Marine’s
Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. Delphi Financial Group, Inc.
KPMG Lazard Frères & Co. LLC Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
Sberbank (Russia) Purchase
of Volksbank International
Banking Network (CEE
region)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Schoenherr Attorneys at Law Banque Populaire Caisse d'Epargne S.A.
Bredin Prat Citigroup
Deloitte Deutsche Bank Dorda Brugger Jordis
DZ BANK AG Ithuba Capital
JP Morgan Limited KPMG Oliver Wyman LLC
Österreichische Volksbanken AG PricewaterhouseCoopers
Sberbank of Russia Société Générale
Volksbank International AG WGZ BANK AG
NYSE Euronext Acquired a
Minority Interest in Fixnetix
Marlin & Associates Nabarro LLP
NYSE Euronext, Inc.
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Acquisition of BEA (The first-
ever acquisition of a US bank
by a Chinese bank) by ICBC
White & Case Sullivan & Cromwell
Professional Services (B-to-B)
Acquisition of Sonar6 by
Cornerstone OnDemand
Harbor View Advisors, LLC Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.
Ernst & Young Limited Harbor View Advisors, LLC Lowenstein Sandler
RR Donnelley - Venue Sonar Limited (dba Sonar6)
Wilson Sonsini
Acquisition of Ideas
International Ltd by Gartner
Marlin & Associates
Computershare Investor Services Pty Limited Ernst & Young Australia
Norton Rose Australia Sparke Helmore
Acquisition of Tarasoft
Corporation by CoreLogic
Generational Capital Markets, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC
Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP
CoreLogic Lam Lo Nishio Chartered Accountants
Tarasoft Corporation
Parsons Corporation Acquires
Cobham Analytics Solutions
Cobham Analytics Solutions
Cobham PLC Hogan Lovells
Houlihan Lokey Lazard Parsons Corporation
Steptoe & Johnson Stone Key Partners LLC
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Technology, Media, Telecom ($100mm and Over)
Acquisition of Ophir Optronics
Ltd. by Newport Corp
(Nasdaq: NEWP)
Headwaters MB
Bank of America Bingham McCutchen LLP
Deloitte & Touche Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg & Co. Naschitz Brandes & Co
Newport Corp. Ophir Optronics Ltd.
Acquisition of Tracker
Investment Holdings (Pty)
Ltd by Actis, RMB Ventures
(Proprietary) Limited and MIC
Investment Holdings
(Proprietary) Limited
Webber Wentzel Actis
DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr FirstRand Bank Limited
MIC Investment Holdings Nedbank Capital divisions Nedbank Corporate
Nedbank Limited Newman Lowther & Associates
PwC Rand Merchant Bank division Remgro Limited
RMB Ventures, Standard Bank of South Africa Limited
Tracking and Signal Technologies Limited
Acquisition of Nortel
Networks’ Patents Portfolio by
Rockstar Bidco
Paul Weiss
Shearman & Sterling LLP Apple
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP Ericsson,
Jefferies & Company, Inc. Lazard Ltd. Microsoft
Nortel Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
RIM SEB Enskilda Sony
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Acquisition of EMI Music
Publishing by Sony
Corporation of America
White & Case Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Clifford Chance LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Shearman & Sterling LLP Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Technology, Media, Telecom (Between $10mm and $100mm)
Acquisition of Ideas
International Ltd by Gartner
Marlin & Associates Computershare Investor Services Pty Limited
Ernst & Young Australia Norton Rose Australia
Sparke Helmore
Sale of Creative Electronic
Systems SA to a Consortium
of Private Equity
Headwaters MB
Chess Consulting LLC Dimension SA
Ernst & Young Kaye Scholer LLP LFPE S.A.
MRV Communications, Inc. Python & Peter
Schellenberg Wittmer Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Union Bank of Switzerland
Vinci Capital
The restructuring of the
shareholding of each of Cell-
C, Convergence and
Dimension Data in FibreCo
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc
Acquisition of Sonar6 by
Cornerstone OnDemand
Harbor View Advisors, LLC Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.
Ernst & Young Limited Harbor View Advisors, LLC
Lowenstein Sandler RR Donnelley - Venue Sonar Limited (dba Sonar6)
Wilson Sonsini
Acquisition of Atrium Network
by TMX Group
Marlin & Associates LFE Partners TMX Group
Torys LLP
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Acquisition of Tarasoft
Corporation by CoreLogic
Generational Capital Markets, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC
Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP CoreLogic Lam Lo Nishio Chartered Accountants
Tarasoft Corporation
Acquisition of IMS Research
by IHS
Marlin & Associates IHS Macfarlanes LLP
Acquisition of NYSE Euronext
by Metabit
Marlin & Associates
Energy
Acquisition of Pea Ridge Iron
Ore Mine by MFC Industrial
Allen & Caron Investor Relations
Alberici Group, Inc Behre Dolbear & Co. (USA)
MFC Industrial Alberci Group Inc Sangra Moller Wings Enterprises
Acquisition of Energy
Products of Idaho by Outotec
Oyj
D.A. Davidson & Co.
Energy Products of Idaho Ernst & Young LLP Fredericks Michael & Co.
Golder Associates Greene Radovsky Maloney Share & Hennigh
Janice Loux CPA Merrill Corporation Outotec Oyj
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Equity Investment in Royal
Camp Services, Ltd. by
Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney
& Company, Inc.
Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Co. Bank of Montreal BMO Capital Partners
Flackman, Goodman & Potter Kaiser Associates
Lazard Middle Market Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP TriWest Capital Partners
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Acquisition of Aker Drilling by
Transocean
FTI Consulting Aker Capital AS
Fearnley Fonds / Fearnley Offshore Morgan Stanley
Transocean Wikborg Rein
Acquisition of Metorex
Limited by Jinchuan Group
Limited
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc Allen & Overy
DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Goldman Sachs Asia Goldman Sachs SA
Intralinks Jinchuan Group
KPMG Services (Proprietary) Limited Metorex Limited Standard Bank
Minor Acquisition of Energias
de Portugal S.A. by China
Three Gorges
Skadden, Arps
BP takes 30 percent Stake in
23 oil and gas Production
Sharing Contracts That
Reliance Operates in India
Vinson & Elkins
Allen & Overy AZB & Partners
BP Linklaters Morgan Stanley
Reliance Talwar Thakore & Associates
Vinson & Elkins
Acquisition of Royal Dutch
Shell by Vitol Group and
Helios Investment Partners
Skadden, Arps
Industrial Goods and Basic Resources
Acquisition of Pea Ridge Iron
Ore Mine by MFC Industrial
Allen & Caron Investor Relations Alberici Group, Inc
Behre Dolbear & Co. (USA) MFC Industrial Alberci Group Inc
Sangra Moller Wings Enterprises
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The Weir Group Acquires
Valves Business From HIM
Tech, Korea
Business Development Asia HIM Tech Co. PwC
The Weir Group, PLC
Sale Of Union Tractor, Ltd. to
Mill City Capital
Greene Holcomb & Fisher LLC Blue Tee, Inc.
Faegre & Benson Bennett Jones Mill City Capital Northstar Capital
Ogilvey Law Firm (Edmonton)
Anglo American plc
Divestment of its Scaw Metals
Group
Webber Wentzel Anglo American plc Edward Nathan Sonnenburg
ERM Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd IDC
Izingwe Holdings (Proprietary) Limited Linklaters Nortons
PwC Rand Merchant Bank
Shanduka Resources (Proprietary) Limited Southern Palace Group of Companies Ltd. UBS/Goldman Sachs
Acquisition of Ferretti S.p.A.
by Weichai Group Holdings
Limited
Houlihan Lokey
D’Urso Gatti e Bianchi Ernst & Young Ferretti S.p.A.
Houlihan Lokey HSBC
ICBC King & Wood The Royal Bank of Scotland
Weichai Group Holdings Limited
Acquisition of Royal Dutch
Shell by Vitol Group and
Helios Investment Partners
Skadden, Arps
Minor Acquisition of Energias
de Portugal S.A. by China
Three Gorges
Skadden, Arps
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Acquisition of Hancock Coal
mines by GVK Group
Ernst & Young Pvt Ltd Amarchand & Mangaldas Minter Ellison Lawyers
Consumer and Retail Products
Sale of O.K. Industries, Inc.
to Industrias Bachoco S.A.B.
de C.V.
SSG Capital Advisors, LLC Bachoco
KPMG Mexico McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP
O.K. Industries, Inc. Shearman & Sterling LLP
Acquisition of BOB Trailers,
Inc. by Britax Group Limited
Capstone Partners LLC Ashurst LLP
BOB Trailers, Inc. Britax Group Limited Eide Bailly, LLP
KPMG LLP Moffat Thomas Barrett Rock & Fields, CHTD
Sale of Del Monte Canada by
Sun Capital Partners to
ConAgra Foods
Sun Capital Partners, Inc. ConAgra Foods, Inc.
Del Monte Canada Harris Williams
Morgan Lewis Stikeman Elliott LLP
Merger of Burger King and
Justice Holdings Ltd.
Tegris Advisors Greenberg Traurig LLP
Barclays Capital Burger King
Justice Holdings Ltd. Price WaterHouse Coopers LLP Sullivan and Cromwell LLP
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Acquisition of a Controlling
Interest in Massmart Holdings
Limited by Wal-Mart Stores,
Inc.
Webber Wentzel Deloitte
Deutsche Bank Edward Nathan Sonnenberg
Ernst&Young Goldman Sachs JPMorgan Chase Inc
Massmart Holdings Limited Merill Data site
RBB Economics Rothschilds Wal-Mart Stores
Acquisition of Zhiqiang Food Co.
(“Joysun”) by Lunar Capital
Business Development Asia
Lunar Capital Sichuan Zhiqiang Food Co. Ltd.
Acquisition of Stake in Dunar
Foods by TVS Shriram Growth
Fund I
Dunar Foods
ICICI Securities TVS Capital
Acqusition of Provimi Holding by
Cargill Incorporated
Baker & McKenzie Cargill Incorporated
Credit Suisse Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
JPMorgan Permira
Real Estate
Acquisition of Tarasoft
Corporation by CoreLogic
Generational Capital Markets, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC
Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP CoreLogic
Lam Lo Nishio Chartered Accountants Tarasoft Corporation
Acquisition of MAAF Assurances
SA by Cofinimmo SA and
Fonciere Atland SA
Banque Degroof & Philippe Cofinimmo SA
MAAF Assurances SA Wragge & Co LLP
Acquisition of The Kingfisher
Shopping Centre by Capital &
Regional Plc and Oaktree
Capital Group
Addleshaw Goddard LLP DLA Piper
Oaktree Capital Management Paul Hastings
Royal Bank Of Scotland Group Plc Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Limited Strutt & Parker
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Privatisation of the ASX-listed
Charter Hall Office REIT
Macquarie Capital
Allens Linklaters Charter Hall Office REIT Government of Singapore Investment Corporation
KPMG Public Sector Pension Investment Board
Consumer Services
Acquisition of Zhiqiang Food Co.
(“Joysun”) by Lunar Capital
Business Development Asia Lunar Capital
Sichuan Zhiqiang Food Co. Ltd.
Restructuring of Travelport
Limited and Travelport Holdings
Limited
Skadden, Arps
Acquisition of 60 Percent of Hsu
Fu Chi by Nestle S.A.
White & Case Maples and Calder
Reed Smith
Acquisition of Stake in Dunar
Foods by TVS Shriram Growth
Fund I
Dunar Foods ICICI Securities
TVS Capital
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