| 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.
|
| $55 billion
|
InBev SA
|
Anheuser-Busch Cos.
|
Cash Merger
|
Outside directors of Anheuser-Busch Cos.
|
| $28.1 billion
|
Verizon Wireless (Verizon Communications and Vodafone plc)
|
Alltel Corp.
|
Cash Merger
|
Vodafone plc
|
| $23 billion
|
Mars, Incorporated
|
William Wrigley Jr. Company
|
Cash Merger
|
Mars, Incorporated
|
| $16.8 billion
|
The Bank of New York Company, Inc.
|
Mellon Financial Corporation
|
Stock Merger
|
Mellon Financial Corporation
|
| $14 billion
|
Aluminum Corporation of China
|
Rio Tinto plc
|
Acquisition of Interest
|
Aluminum Corporation of China
|
| $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.
|
| $11.8 billion
|
National Grid plc
|
KeySpan Corp.
|
Cash Merger
|
KeySpan Corp.
|
| $10.1 billiion
|
Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited
|
Trane Inc.
|
Cash and Stock Merger
|
Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited
|
| $8.5 billion
|
Toronto-Dominion Bank
|
Commerce Bancorp Inc.
|
Cash and Stock Merger
|
TD Bank Financial Group
|
| $8 billion
|
The Lightstone Group
|
Extended Stay Hotels (The Blackstone Group)
|
LBO/Sale of Assets
|
The Blackstone Group
|
| $7.5 billion
|
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.
|
Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
|
Cash and Stock Acquisition
|
Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
|
| $7 billion
|
Corsair Capital LLC
|
National City Corporation
|
Recapitalization
|
Corsair Capital LLC
|
| $6.8 billion
|
Wachovia Corporation
|
A.G. Edwards, Inc.
|
Cash and Stock Merger
|
Wachovia Corporation
|
| $6 billion
|
Hindalco Industries Limited
|
Novelis Inc.
|
Cash Merger
|
Evercore Partners, financial advisor to Novelis Inc.
|
| $5.6 billion
|
News Corp.
|
Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
|
Cash and Stock Merger
|
The Board of Directors of Down Jones & Company Inc.
|
| $3.6 billion
|
Delta Airlines Inc.
|
Northwest Airlines Corp.
|
Stock Merger
|
Northwest Airlines Corp.
|
| $1.85 billion
|
J.C. Flowers & Co. and investors
|
Shinsei Bank
|
Tender Offer
|
J.C. Flowers & Co. and investors
|
| $1.7 billion
|
Barclays Bank PLC
|
Lehman Brothers' North American investment banking and capital markets businesses and certain other assets
|
Acquisition of Assets
|
Lehman Brothers
|
