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Winners of the 4th Annual International M&A Advisor Awards Announced New York, NY, October 15, 2012 – The M&A Advisor announced the winners of
the 2012 International M&A Advisor Awards at the 4th Annual International M&A Awards Gala to a festive, sold-out crowd at the New York Athletic Club on
Wednesday, October 10th. Bloomberg Television Market Reporter Dominic Chu and Miss Universe China Luo Zilin hosted the event with a guest appearance by the Grammy award winning Violinist and international hip-hop/R&B star Miri Ben-Ari.
"We are currently witnessing the unprecedented 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 David Fergusson, Sr. Managing Director of The M&A Advisor. “During this period of
continued uncertainty, inter-country M&A activity again outperformed domestic M&A, laying testament to the claim that business truly knows no boundaries.”
The International Awards Gala honored the leading deal-teams, deal-makers and
firms whose activities set the standard for cross-border transactions. This year, 228 nominees representing over 400 companies were finalists for the awards. An independent judging committee of cross-border industry experts determined the
ultimate recipients of the awards.
In addition to the honorees, Lifetime Achievement Awards were given to the leading global M&A industry pioneers. Dr. Mario Garnero, Chairman, Brasilinvest; Rajiv K. Luthra, Co-Founder, Luthra and Luthra; Alex Rodzianko, CEO, IFC Metropol and
Wang Wei, Chairman, China M&A Group were awarded for their achievements. For photos and biographies of the Lifetime Achievement Award winners, please CLICK
HERE. The Annual International M&A Advisor Summit and Awards Gala is the premier
event for professionals in the global M&A industry. In addition to recognizing and rewarding the industry’s top cross-border transactions, firms of the year, and
dealmaker of the year, the Summit featured over 50 stalwart professionals leading roundtable sessions and delivering keynote presentations.
A detailed list of all the Award Winners and Finalists for the 4th Annual International M&A Awards is to follow.
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THE 4th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL M&A ADVISOR AWARDS
WINNERS AND FINALISTS
The winners for the 4th Annual International M&A Advisor Awards are as follows:
I. SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD
Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Mario Garnero, Chairman, Brasilinvest;
Rajiv K. Luthra, Co-Founder, Luthra and Luthra; Alex Rodzianko, CEO, IFC Metropol
Wang Wei, Chairman, China M&A
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II. MAJOR DEAL CATEGORIES
M&A Deal of the Year (Over $3 Billion)
WINNER
Acquisition of Nortel Networks’
Patents Portfolio by Rockstar Bidco
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP
Apple Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP
Ericsson Jefferies & Company, Inc.
Lazard Ltd. Microsoft Nortel
RIM SEB Enskilda
Sony Weil, Gotshal, and Manges
FINALISTS
Acquisition of Talecris by Grifols
S.A.
Proskauer Rose LLP Grifols S.A. Osborne Clarke
Proskauer Rose LLP Talecris Biotherapeutics
Acquisition of Skype Global S.a.r.l.
by Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation JP Morgan
Silver Lake Partners Skype Global S.a.r.l.
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 Aker Drilling by
Transocean
FTI Consulting
Aker Capital AS Fearnley Fonds / Fearnley Offshore Morgan Stanley
Transocean Wikborg Rein
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
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France Telecom’s US$3.35 Billion
Tender Offer for MobiNil / ECMS
and Related Transaction with
Orascom Telecom Media and
Technology
Dechert Beltone Financial
Cleary Gottlieb LLP France Telecom
Ibrachy Law Firm Lazard Frères Orascom Telecom Media & Technology Holding
SAE Zaki Hashem & Partners
M&A Deal of the Year (Between $1 Billion and $3 Billion)
WINNER
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.
FINALISTS
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
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
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Merger of Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Inc. (Jazz Inc) and Azur Pharma
Ltd (Azur)
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox Azur Pharma Ltd Cooley
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. Mayer Brown
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
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)
WINNER
Acquisition of Hayes Lemmerz
(Proskauer) by Iochpe-Maxion
Proskauer Rose LLP Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc.
Iochpe-Maxion S.A.
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FINALISTS
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 Partners Ltd. Eaton Corp Global M&A Turkey
Polimer Kaucuk Price Waterhouse Coopers
White & Case YTY Law
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
9
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 Elan Drug
Technologies from Elan
Corporation Plc by Alkermes, Inc
A&L Goodbody
Alkermes Arthur Cox
Cleary Gottlieb Elan
FTI Consulting Morgan Stanley PwC
Acquisition of Old World
Chemicals by Indorama
William Blair & Company
Bracewell & Giuliani Indorama Ventures PCL Old World Industries, LLC
M&A Deal of the Year (Between $100mm and $250mm)
WINNER
Acquisition of BEA (The first-ever
acquisition of a US bank by a
Chinese bank) by ICBC
White & Case
Sullivan & Cromwell
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FINALISTS
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
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)
WINNER
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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FINALISTS
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
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 NAPC by Eurovia,
a Vinci Group Subisidiary
Ernst & Young Pvt Ltd
12
M&A Deal of the Year (Between $10mm and $50mm)
WINNER
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
FINALISTS
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 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 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 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)
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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III. CORPORATE/STRATEGIC ACQUISITION DEAL OF THE YEAR
Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year (Over $1 Billion)
WINNER
Acquisition of Skype Global
S.a.r.l. by Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation JP Morgan
Silver Lake Partners Skype Global S.a.r.l.
FINALISTS
France Telecom’s US$3.35
Billion Tender Offer for MobiNil /
ECMS and Related Transaction
with Orascom Telecom Media
and Technology
Dechert Beltone Financial Cleary Gottlieb LLP
France Telecom Ibrachy Law Firm
Lazard Frères Orascom Telecom Media & Technology Holding SAE Zaki Hashem & Partners
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 Proskauer Rose LLP
Talecris Biotherapeutics
15
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
16
Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year
(Between $100mm and $1 Billion)
WINNER
Purchase of the 100 Percent of
the Shares of Polimer Kaucuk
(SEL Hortum) by Eaton Corp.
Global M&A Partners Ltd.
Eaton Corp Global M&A Turkey Polimer Kaucuk
Price Waterhouse Coopers White & Case
YTY Law
FINALISTS
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
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
17
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)
WINNER
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
FINALISTS
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
18
Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year (Between $10mm and $50mm)
WINNER
Acquisition of Zhiqiang Food Co.
(“Joysun”) by Lunar Capital
Business Development Asia Lunar Capital
Sichuan Zhiqiang Food Co. Ltd.
FINALIS
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
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 50 percent Equity
Stake in Legacy Iron Ore
Limited
Ernst & Young
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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
The Weir Group Acquires Valves
Business from HIM Tech, Korea
Business Development Asia
HIM Tech Co. PwC
The Weir Group, PLC
IV. RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR
WINNER
Out-of-Court Restructuring of
PlayPower, Inc.
Miller Buckfire & Co. Apollo Investment Management
Mackinac Partners PlayPower, Inc./Mackinac Partners UBS AG
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
FINALISTS
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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V. DEAL FINANCING OF THE YEAR
WINNER
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
FINALISTS
Acquisition of MYOB by Bain
Capital
Ropes & Gray Allens Arthur Robinson Bain Capital
Clayton Utz Corrs Chambers Westgate
Morgan Stanley MYOB PwC
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
21
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
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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VI. DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
WINNER
Euan Rellie, Senior Managing Director, Business Development Asia
FINALISTS
Guy Alexander, Co-Head M&A and Equity Capital Markets, Allens Linklaters
Christo Els, Partner, Webber Wentzel
Sergio Galvis, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
John Rovani, Senior Managing Director, The McLean Group, LLC
Dieter A. Schmitz, Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
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VII. M&A PRODUCT/SERVICE OF THE YEAR
Professional Service/Portfolio Companies
WINNER
SRS MAX
FINALISTS
Lockton, Inc.
Tasman Consulting Post-Merger Human
Capital Integration Services
VSA Consulting Group LLC
Information Management
WINNER
Merrill DataSite
FINALISTS
EMIS DealWatch
S&P Capital IQ
V-Rooms Virtual Data Rooms
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VIII. FIRM OF THE YEAR
Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year
WINNER
Capstone Partners LLC
FINALISTS
Greene Holcomb & Fisher LLC
Record Point
Tegris Advisors
Private Equity Firm of the Year
WINNER
Audax Private Equity
FINALIS
3i Group Plc
AXA Private Equity
H.I.G. Capital, LLC
CVC Partners
EQT Partners
LeapFrog Investments
Sun European Partners
Accounting/Due Diligence Firm of the Year
WINNER
Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd.
25
FINALISTS
Deloitte
KPMG
ShineWing
Valuation Firm of the Year
WINNER
Valuation Research Group
FINALISTS
Deloitte
Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd.
Houlihan Lokey
Law Firm of the Year
WINNER
White & Case LLP
FINALISTS
A&L Goodbody
Clifford Chance
Dechert LLP
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc.
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Torys LLP
Webber Wentzel
26
Marketing/PR Firm of the Year
WINNER
FTI Consulting
FINALISTS
BackBay Communications, Inc.
Infinite Public Relations, LLC
LANE PR
Investment Banking Firm of the Year
WINNER
Houlihan Lokey FINALISTS
Business Development Asia (BDA)
Deloitte
Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd.
Headwaters MB, LLC
William Blair & Company
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IX. SECTOR DEAL OF THE YEAR AWARDS
Healthcare/Life Sciences
WINNER
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
FINALISTS
Acquisition of Talecris by Grifols
S.A.
Proskauer Rose LLP Grifols S.A. Osborne Clarke
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 Arthur Cox
Cleary Gottlieb Elan
FTI Consulting Morgan Stanley PwC
Industrial Manufacturing/Distribution (Between $100mm and $1 Billion)
WINNER
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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FINALISTS
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 Partners Ltd.
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
29
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)
WINNER
The Weir Group acquires valves
business from HIM Tech, Korea
Business Development Asia HIM Tech Co.
PwC The Weir Group, PLC
FINALISTS
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)
30
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
WINNER
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
FINALISTS
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.
NYSE Euronext Acquired a
Minority Interest in Fixnetix
Marlin & Associates Nabarro LLP NYSE Euronext, Inc.
31
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)
WINNER
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
FINALISTS
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
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)
WINNER
France Telecom’s US$3.35
Billion Tender Offer for
MobiNil / ECMS and Related
Transaction with Orascom
Telecom Media and
Technology
Dechert Beltone Financial
Cleary Gottlieb LLP France Telecom
Ibrachy Law Firm Lazard Frères Orascom Telecom Media & Technology Holding SAE
Zaki Hashem & Partners
FINALISTS
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
33
Acquisition of Nortel
Networks’ Patents Portfolio by
Rockstar Bidco
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP
Apple Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP
Ericsson, Jefferies & Company, Inc. Lazard Ltd.
Microsoft Nortel
RIM SEB Enskilda Sony
Weil, Gotshal, and Manges
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)
WINNER
Acquisition of Metabit by
NYSE Euronext
Marlin & Associates
FINALISTS
Acquisition of Ideas
International Ltd by Gartner
Marlin & Associates Computershare Investor Services Pty Limited Ernst & Young Australia
Norton Rose Australia Sparke Helmore
34
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
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
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Energy
WINNER
Acquisition of Aker Drilling by
Transocean
FTI Consulting
Aker Capital AS Fearnley Fonds / Fearnley Offshore
Morgan Stanley Transocean
Wikborg Rein
FINALISTS
Acquisition of Pea Ridge Iron
Ore Mine by MFC Industrial
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
36
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
WINNER
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
37
FINALISTS
Acquisition of Pea Ridge Iron
Ore Mine by MFC Industrial
Alberici Group, Inc
Behre Dolbear & Co. (USA) MFC Industrial Alberci Group Inc
Sangra Moller Wings Enterprises
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 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
Acquisition of Hancock Coal
mines by GVK Group
Ernst & Young Pvt Ltd Amarchand & Mangaldas
Minter Ellison Lawyers
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Consumer and Retail Products
WINNER
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
FINALISTS
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
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
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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
WINNER
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
FINALISTS
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
40
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
Consumer Services
WINNER
Restructuring of Travelport
Limited and Travelport Holdings
Limited
Skadden, Arps
FINALISTS
Acquisition of Zhiqiang Food Co.
(“Joysun”) by Lunar Capital
Business Development Asia Lunar Capital
Sichuan Zhiqiang Food Co. Ltd.
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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