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Vodafone Mannesmann

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~$180 billion
1999-2000
All-stock, hostile deal

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Big Deals and Almost Deals with big political considerations

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March 2017 PSA / Opel (GM) (France, England, Germany)
Feb 2017 KraftHeinz Unilever (England, Netherlands)
2016 GE Alstom (France)

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2016 Megadeals

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Tyco / Johnson Controls (1/25/2016)
ChemChina / Syngenta (2/3/2016)
Abbott / St. Jude Medical (4/28/2016)
Bayer / Monsanto (5/23/2016)
Microsoft / LinkedIn (6/13/2016)
Softbank / ARM (7/18/2016)
Enbridge / Spectra (9/6/2016)
BAT / RAI (10/21/2016)
ATT / Time Warner (10/22/2016)
Qualcomm / NXP (10/27/2016)
GE / Baker Hughes (10/31/2016)
CenturyLink / Level 3 (10/31/2016)
Sunoco Logistics Partners / Energy Transfer Partners (11/21/2016)
21st Century Fox / Sky (12/9/2016)
Praxair / Linde (12/20/2016)
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2015 Megadeals

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Cheung Kong / Hutchison Whampoa (1/9/2015)
Heinz / Kraft (3/25/2015)
Royal Dutch Shell / BG (4/8/2015)
Mylan / Perrigo (4/8/2015)
Teva / Mylan (4/21/2015)
Charter / Time Warner Cable (5/26/2015)
Avago / Broadcom (5/28/2015)
Anthem / Cigna (6/20/2015)
Energy Transfer / Williams (6/22/2015)
Shareholders / Paypal (7/6/2015)
Teva / Allergan (7/27/2015)
Berkshire / PCC (8/10/2015)
ABI / SABM (10/7/2015)
Dell / EMC (10/12/2015)
Canadian Pacific / Norfolk Southern (11/17/2015)
Pfizer / Allergan (11/23/2015)
Dow / DuPont (12/11/2015)
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2014 Top 15 Big Deals per ThomsoneOne

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Comcast / Time Warner Cable (2/13/14)
Actavis / Forest Labs (2/18/14)
Facebook / WhatsApp (2/19/14)
Numericable / SFR (3/11/14)
Holcim / Lafarge (4/7/14)
CITIC Pacific / CITIC Ltd (4/16/14)
GE / Alstom (4/30/14)
ATT / DirecTV (5/18/14)
Medtronic / Covidien (6/15/14)
Reynolds / Lorillard (7/15/14)
Kinder Morgan / Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (8/10/14)
Investor Group / Sinopec Sales Co (9/14/14)
Actavis / Allergan (11/17/14)
Halliburton / Baker Hughes (11/17/14)
BT Group / EE (12/15/14)
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2013 Top 15 Big Deals per ThomsonOne

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Investor Group / Dell (Feb 5)
Liberty Global / Virgin Media (Feb 5)
Comcast / NBCUniversal (Feb 12)
Berkshire Hathaway and 3G / Heinz (Feb 14)
Thermo Fisher Scientific / Life Technologies (Apr 15)
Zoetis split-off from Pfizer (May 22)
Valeant / Bausch and Lomb (May 27)
France-SME Financing / CDC-SME Financing (July 12)
Loblaw / Shoppers Drug Mart (July 15)
Telefonica / E-Plus Mobilfunk (KPN) (July 23)
Publicis / Omnicom (July 28)
Verizon / Verizon Wireless (Sep 2)
Oi / Portugal Telecom (Oct 2)
American Realty Capital Property / Cole Real Estate
Investments (Oct 23)
Westfield Retail / Westfield Group Australia/NZ (Dec 4)

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2012 Top 15 Big Deals per ThomsonOne

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Glencore / Xstrata (66%) (2/7/2012)
Shareholders / ConocoPhillips-Refining (4/12/2012)
FROB - Banco Financiero y de Ahorros (5/25/2012)
Walgreens / Alliance Boots (6/19/2012)
ABI / Grupo Modelo (6/29/2012)
CNOOC Canada Holding / Nexen (7/23/2012)
China Telecom / China Telecom 3G Assets (8/22/2012)
Shareholders / Kraft Foods (9/17/2012)
SoftBank / Sprint Nextel (70%) (10/15/2012)
NK Rosneft / TNK-BP (50%) (10/22/2012)
NK Rosneft / TNK-BP (50%) (10/22/2012)
Freeport-McMoRan / Plains Exploration (12/5/2012)
Abbvie Spin (12/10/1012)
SAREB / Bankia SA - Bad RE Assets (12/21/2012)
FROB / Bankia SA (12/26/2012)

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2011 Megadeals

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Fiat Spin (1/3/2011)
Duke/Progress Energy (1/10/2011)
AIG Preferred (1/14/2011)
Cargill/Cargill (1/18/2011)
AMB Property/ProLogis (1/31/2011)
J and J/Synthes (4/27/2011)
Takeda/Nycomed (5/19/2011)
Marathon Downstream Spin (6/23/2011)
BHP/Petrohawk (7/14/2011)
Express Scripts/Medco (7/21/2011)
UT/Goodrich (9/21/2011)
Nippon Steel/Sumitomo (9/22/2011)
Kinder Morgan/El Paso (10/16/2011)
Deutsche Boerse / NYSE Euronext (12/2/2011)
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Thermo Fisher / Life Technologies

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April 2013 announcement
Life Technologies itself the product of a merger of Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems
Thermo Fisher, a medical and scientific devices company, created in a merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific in 2006
LT was a leading DNA sequencer and tester
Losing bidders were Sigma-Aldrich (chemicals for research labs), and a PE consortium of Blackstone Carlyle KKR and Temasek

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Valeant, Baush and Lomb

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May 2013
Bausch: contact lenses, eye-care solutions, and prescription medicines
Diversifies Valeant out of dermatology
Bausch had been taken private by Warburg in 2007 LBO, filed for IPO that failed earlier in 2013

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Telefonica / E-Plus Mobilfunk

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July 2013

E-Plus: German subsidiary of KPN (Dutch phone company), third-largest mobile operator in Germany (after Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom)

Carlos Slim owned ~30% of KPN and threatened to block the transaction to increase price

Together with Telefonica’s #4 02 network, would have 47 million subscribers, become #1 by subscribers

At announcement, KPN to receive 4bn cash and 17.6% stake in Telefonica’s German subsidiary

Telefonica financing included 3.7bn rights issuance

~9x multiple

Part of long-term consolidation trend in EU telecoms;
Followed June announcement of Vodafone’s acquisition of Kabel Deutschland for €7.7bn

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Loblaw / Shoppers Drug Mart

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July 2013

Canadian Loblaw acquired Canadian Shoppers Drug Mart

Cash and stock deal (54% / 46%), giving Shoppers shareholders ~29% stake in NewCo

Shoppers is Canada’s largest drug store chain by revenue with presence in cities and strip malls

Loblaw to boost food offerings, expand pharmacy presence (5%/25% Canada mkt share respectively)

Weston family controlled Loblaw

Followed Kroger/Teeter ($2.4bn) and Empire (Canada) / Safeway Canada ops ($5.7bn)

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Publicis / Omnicom

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July 2013

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Oi / Portugal Telecom

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October 2013

Cash and stock merger of #1 Brazilian and Portuguese phone companies

Portugal Telecom owned stake in Oi prior to deal

Shareholders of Oi own 62% of NewCo

Former Portugal Telecom and current Oi CEO (and also current Portugal domestic operations head) to lead enlarged company after joining Oi in June

Capital increase as part of transaction

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American Realty Capital Property / Cole Real Estate

Investments (Oct 23)

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October 2013

14% premium

Amerian Realty on a “spree” of acquisitions; had been rebuffed earlier in year in effort to buy predecessor to Cole

Schorch likened it to a merger of Red Sox and Yanks

Made American Realty the largest single-tenant REIT, passing Realty Income Corp.

Largest REIT deal since 2011 AMB Property/Prologis $16.5bn

Next year, American Realty had an accounting scandal, with intentional falsehoods. Nick Schorsch CEO in trouble, replaced by Glenn Rufano. CAO accused Schorsch of ordering her to cover up and manipulate results. In 2015 they renamed as VEREIT.

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Westfield Group and Westfield Retail Trust restructure to form Westfield Corp and Scentre Group

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December 2013
International business becomes Westfield Corp
Australia NZ becomes Scentre Group

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BT/EE

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15 December 2014

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CITIC Pacific / CITIC Ltd

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Reverse IPO in HK

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Kinder Morgan / Kinder Morgan Energy Partners

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Roll-up of MLP

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Sinopec Sales

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September 2014, sale of 30% stake. Deal values the unit at ~$60 billion

AKA Sinopec marketing
China PEtroleum & Chemical Corporation, aka Sinopec
Sinopec Sales/Marketing is its gas station unit, which had 30k staties across China, most of which include a convenience store

Shares fell, as the deal attracted investment mainly from other Chinese/Hong Kong entities.

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Numericable / SFR

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Unclear when this started and when final offer announced, will have to check later, but now saying March 2014

SFR is Vivendi’s mobile and internet unit; in 2013 Vivendi announced plans to split it off as part of refocusing on entertainment (incl. Universal Music, Canal Plus). In October 2013, bought 20% of Canal Plus it did not own for $1.4bn and sold controlling interest in Activision Blizzard for $8.2bn; in November sold 53% stake in Morocco’s Maroc Telecom to Emirates Telecom for 4.2bn

Numericable was 40% owned by Altice, which was planning an IPO. Patrick Drahi is founder and controlling shareholder of Altice. Original sale was 80%, Vivendi sold remaining 20% in Feb 2015, 3 months after closing

Bouygues, 3d-largest French telecoms company, also made a bid but lost

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Holcim / Lafarge

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April 2014

Holcim Swiss
Lafarge French

Regulators had already been investigating Holcim, which had just done deals with Cemex around EU operations

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Halliburton / Baker Hughes

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November 2014
Called off in May 2016 after DoJ indicated it would seek to block the merger

Looked like it would go hostile
Halliburton submitted a list of board nominees (!)
Two oilfield services companies

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Energy Transfer/Williams

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Deal fell apart on collapse in energy markets

ET got out on 721 tax ruling upheld by DE Chancery and Supreme Court

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Bayer / Monsanto

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Largest all-cash deal to date

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Johnson and Johnson / Actelion

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January 26, 2017
Lazard advised (Ken, Jeffrey, Gluckman, Bachmann)

All-cash offer
Allowed deployment of JJ overseas cash
Sanofi competing bidder
Spin of Actelion’s early-stage R+D, named “Idorsia”, with JJ holding 16% and issuing convertible note with right to additional 16%

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Essilor/Luxotica

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16 January 2017
All-stock merger of largest pure-play eyewear companies
Essilor (French) strong in manufacturing and lenses, Luxottica (Italian) in retailing and frames
Luxottica’s Leonardo del Vecchio Executive Chair and CEO, and Executive Chairman of Essilor
Essilor’s Hubert Sagnieres Executive Vice-Chair, Deputy CEO, and CEO of Essilor International
Equal board representation

2 Luxottica CEOs resigned in 2014 - this deal addressed succession

Luxottica 4th-largest Italian public company at the time. Largest acquisition of Italian company ever. Followed ChemChinna acq Pirelli and HedelbergCement acquisition of Italcementi, before owned by the Pesenti family. Makes frames for Armani, Chanel, Prada. Owned Lenscrafters, Pearle Vision, Sunglass Hut

Roughly 1/3 each lenses, retail, wholesale pro forma. Combined ~27% global share; J+J next at 4%!

Del Vecchio to own 31% of combined company and accept standstill. Overall split 50/50

4 years of talks!

Citigroup and Rothschild advised Essilor, Mediobanca advised Delfin

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Huntsman/Clariant

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May 22, 2017
Both specialty chemicals companies

All-stock nil-premium merger (based on prices on the 19th of May)
$400m synergies

Clariant shareholders 52%

CEO Peter Huntsman, Chairman Clariant’s Hariolf Kottman; equal rep on board

Dual direct listings on NYSE and SIX, pursuing indexation on both

Targeting close by year-end 2017

IFRS filing of 10-Ks and Qs

Huntsman IPO of Venator (pigments and additives) to go forward as previously announced

Only “strong transaction commitment” from family shareholders on both sides (Huntsman family owned ~14% of H, C ??)

Huntsman tried to combine with Hexion in 2006 but 07 market collapse tore that up. There was a lawsuit

Clariant Citi UBS
Huntsman BAML Moelis

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Safran / Zodiac

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January 19, 2017

Both French aerospace suppliers: Safran engines, Zodiac seats and toilets
Safran paying special dividend in connection with merger
Zodiac shareholders first tender, then vote on merger. To allow Zodiac families, french government, and institutional shareholders to stay on. Forced people to take part
EUR200m synergies
Public tender offer, all-cash, at 26% premium to unaffected, 36% 3-month VWAP

TCI opposed the deal. Zodiac continued to revise guidance downwards.

In late May 2017, Safran and Zodiac announced that the deal terms would be revised downward

Crazy situation

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Starboard/Perrigo

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After Mylan bid for Perrigo in 2015, and Perrigo fended them off, Perrigo’s share price halved
On 7 Feb 2017, Perrigo agreed to give Starboard half the board
Starboard wrote a letter to Perrigo Sep 11 2016

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BC / PetSmart

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Dec 15 2014

Activist Jana drove the sale
Delaware court ruling on process for appraisal (said it was fair; PetCo couldn’t bid, no other strategics did, 27 PE firms contacted etc.)
Turnaround CEO Mike Massey (previously of Collective Brands, parent of Payless ShoeSource) has done a great job with the business so far
Returned $800m to investors in Feb 2016

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Mylan / Perrigo

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Mylan attempted to acquire Perrigo (based in Dublin, Ireland)
Cash and stock offer
Mylan trying to escape Teva (and did)
Tender rejected by shareholders

April 8, 2015 - Initial bid
April 21 - Teva bids for Mylan; Mylan and Perrigo boards reject bids
April 29 - Mylan improves offer for Perrigo
May 1 - Mylan sues K&E over Teva
June 19 - Teva announces it has a ~5% stake in Mylan
July 23 - Mylan uses stichting to defend itself. Teva drops pursuit and buys Allergan generics
Sep 17 - Perrigo publishes letter urging shareholders not to accept; countersuits aplenty
Oct 22 - Perrigo announces SBB and standalone plan (layoffs, disposal of vitamins/minerals biz)
Nov 3 - FTC approves purchase conditioned on sale of 7 Mylan generics
Nov 9 - Perrigo again urges shareholders to say no
Nov 13 - Mylan falls 12% short of the number of tendering shareholders

Teva: Barclays, Greenhill, K&E (switched to S&C)
Mylan: Goldman and Cravath
Perrigo: MS and JPM

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CSC HPE Services

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RMT to form DXC, announced May 24, 2016

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Amazon / Whole Foods

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6 June 2017

All-cash, $13.7bn EV
10.6x LTM EBITDA
$42.00/share, 27% premium to pre-announcement, 35% premium to price pre-Jana on April 7
Really thin announcement: no synergies, no advisors, no strategic rationale, nothing

Neuberger Berman had been pushing for changes for some time

Jana partners announced 9% stake on April 10, 2017 (worked fast!)
10 May, WFM announced new CFO, 5 new directors (replacing 5 retiring), and a new chair (who was already on the board)
Evercore hired to help with defense. Goldman advised Amazon
Albertson’s rumored to be exploring acquisition of WFM earlier in the year

John Mackey to remain as CEO, with HQ remaining in Austin, TX

WFM strong in fresh: 2/3 of sales, vs. 25% for most grocery chains
Gives Amazon good real estate locations, fresh distribution, industry knowledge, access to high-income consumers
Some rumor that Amazon will cut employees and seek to automate

Amazon and WFM first talked in 201[4] when Amazon was developing Prime Now. WF went dark and signed a deal with Instacart. Idea came back in 2016.

Albertsons made an offer to WFM, all equity. Rejected out of hand. So did another party. No process was run.

Leonard Green involved at some point as well?

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Dutch hostile takeover

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Only worked once: RBS/ABN Amro
Failed:
KHC/Unilever
PPG/Akzo Nobel
Teva/Mylan
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ChemChina / Syngenta

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Largest acquisition by Chinese company

Syngenta rebuffed Monsanto

Chemchina advised by
Syngenta advised by Dyalco, JPM, GS, UBS

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Dow / Dupont

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December 11, 2015

Nil-premium all-stock merger with 50/50 ownership

DuPont

Dow CEO Andrew Liveris to be Executive Chairman with focus on Material Science
DuPont CEO Edward Breen to be CEO with focus on Agriculture and Specialty Products
BoD - 16 directors: 8 Dow, 8 DuPont. 2 independent co-lead directors (one from each)

Intend to separate into three companies: agriculture (11/7), material science (45/6), specialty products (11/2)

Activists on both sides: Trian and Third point. A CEO had to leave. After the deal announced Loeb got in the mix again agitating for Specialty Products to be further split up

Closing originally H216. Now H217?

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Zoetis

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Pfizer animal health business
Feb 2013 IPO of minority from Pfizer
May 2013 split off announced

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