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Mergers & Acquisitions - December, 2013

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• CIT To Pay $60M To Settle Tyco Tax-Agreement Feud
• Bankruptcy Court Allows ATP To Sell UK Subsidiary
• Del. Vs. NY Governing Law — Devil Is In The Details
• 2 Media Mergers Topping $2B Win FCC's Blessing
• Kinder Morgan Teams With Targa On Texas NGL Facilities
• Velti Gets Green Light For Sale To Blackstone Unit
• Akin Gump To Open Latest Calif. Office In Orange County
• 2012 Highmark-UPMC Deal Approved, Suits To Be Dropped
• Taxation With Representation: Tax Counsel On The Deal
• Deal Makers Close 2013 With String Of Big Pharma Plays
• Deals Rumor Mill: Hard Rock, Evonik, Vivendi
• EC To Probe Telefonica's Planned €8.5B E-Plus Buy
• Vodafone Inks Deal For Full Control Of Kabel Deutschland
• Vinson Reps Summit In Deal For Gas Infrastructure Co. Stake
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: McCarter & English's Pam Moore
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Vorys Sater's Benita Kahn
• FTC Clears Pinnacle's Plan For $2.8B Ameristar Buy
• Weil Steers Another Oracle Buyout In $1.5B Responsys Deal
• Alcatel-Lucent Reaps $200M In Sale Of LGS Innovations
• Fresh & Easy Estate Gets OK For $41.5M Property Sale
• Bankrupt Scrap Metal Co.'s Execs Sued For $65M By Creditors
• Bankrupt OCZ Tech Gets Nod For Jan. Auction
• Bottle Co. Constar Floats $69M Asset Sale In Ch. 11
• MetLife To Pay $250M For Half of Malaysian Insurance Units
• Bayer Offers $2.9B For Cancer Drugmaker Algeta
• AstraZeneca Puts Up $4.1B To Take Over Diabetes Drug JV
• Chief Oil & Gas Pays $500M for Pa. Gas Holding Co.
• Daimler Gets Aston Martin Stake In Mercedes Engine Deal
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Novak Druce's Pat Rogowski
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: White And Williams' Joan Rosoff
• Deals Rumor Mill: Carlyle, KKR, European Commission
• Facebook, Zuckerberg To Sell 70M Shares
• Hershey Picks Up Chinese Candy Co. In $584M Deal
• Blackstone Passes Indian Drugmaker Stake To Bain
• Essex, BRE Properties Combine To Create $15.4B Public REIT
• Latham-Led Darden Answers Activist With Red Lobster Spinoff
• HHS Fears MedLab Sale May Run Afoul Of HIPAA
• Handshakes To Hashtags For Construction Deal-Making
• The Closely Held Business: To Squeeze Or Not To Squeeze?
• Del. High Court Urged To Reverse Strine's MFW Decision
• Wachtell Lipton Sues CVR, Icahn Over Malpractice Claims
• Skadden Steers Prospect Capital In $326M Auto Lender Buy
• Casino Miami Jai-Alai Bankruptcy Sale Procedures OK'd
• FTC OKs $120M Deal To End Polypore Merger Fight
• A Look Back At The Deals That Defined 2013
• Amadeus Pays $500M For New Hampshire Hotel IT Co.
• Sealing The Deal: Paul Hastings Helps Dole Make History
• Deals Rumor Mill: Al Jazeera, Warburg Pincus, Sony
• Activist Investor Presses For Sale Of Cracker Barrel
• Forstmann Little Reaps $2.3B In Sale Of Talent Agency IMG
• Jones Day Reps Refiner In $242M Mitsui Oil Buy
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Ober Kaler's Barbara Werther
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Dechert's Cathy Botticelli
• Japan's NKSJ Drops $961M To Acquire Insurer Canopius
• Activist Clinton Mulling Wet Seal Takeover Play
• Wachtell Lipton Guides Harland Clarke In $1.84B Valassis Buy
• JPMorgan Wants At Least $1B From FDIC For WaMu Payouts
• FCC Pulls Proposal To Ease Media Cross-Ownership Rules
• Hedge Funds Set Sights On Energy Co. Williams' Board Seats
• Australian Energy Co. APA To Pay $1.3B For Envestra
• Statoil Trims Stake In $28B Caspian Gas Project For $1.4B
• E.ON Unloads Stake In Regional Unit For €610M
• Equal Energy On Defensive As Investors Blast Sale Plans
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Locke Lord's Denise Hanna
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Morrison & Foerster's Anna White
• Blackstone Credit Division To Snap Up Velti Assets
• Seneca Foods Plans $148M Deal For Bankrupt Allens
• Deals Rumor Mill: Time Warner, Comcast, Omnicom
• Thoma Bravo Sells Digital Security Co. To ID Card Supplier
• Del. High Court Nixes Cooper Appeal In Apollo Merger Fight
• The Important Role Of Representations, Warranties In M&A
• LightSquared Pulls Plug On Sale To Centerbridge
• Spain's Almirall Pledges $400M For Skin Drug Co. Aqua
• Hedge Fund Again Urges Olive Garden Parent To Reshape Biz
• AT&T Exits Conn. Landline Business In $2B Deal
• Activist Says REIT Gave Bill Gates Sweetheart Resort Deal
• Bankrupt Miami Casino Gets Extra Day To Land Stalking Horse
• KKR To Pay $2.6B For Specialty Finance Affiliate
• GSK Seeks To Up Stake In Indian Unit By $1B
• EQT Buys Dairy Queen, Papa John's Pizza Operator In China
• Australia's Senex Kills $673M Bid After AWE Snubs Offer
• Gannett Must Dump TV Station In $2.2B Belo Deal, DOJ Says
• Valeant Puts Up $250M For Struggling Solta Medical
• Centrica-Led Group's $1.5B Bid For Irish Utility Approved
• Carrefour Drops $2.75B To Launch Shopping Mall Venture
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Arnold & Porter's Maureen Jeffreys
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Fish's Ann Cathcart Chaplin
• UK Media Co. Sells Weather Biz For $261M To General Atlantic
• Canadian Miner Primero To Pay $208M For Brigus Gold
• Penn Virginia Lands $100M For Eagle Ford Gas Assets
• Deals Rumor Mill: KKR, Versace, Dexus
• Chipmaker Avago To Pay $6.6B For LSI
• IAG Puts Up $1.9B For Wesfarmers Underwriting Biz
• Wumart, CP Lotus Drop $302M Deal After Talks Stall
• What's So Special About Treaty Arbitration?
• OCZ Tech's Auction Terms Chill Bidding, Trustee Says
• Judge Overrules Objections To $154M TLO Bankruptcy Sale
• Bankrupt Savient Gets OK For $120M Sale To Crealta
• Norway's Stokke Agrees To Buyout By S. Korean Investor
• Sluggish Retail Sector Proves Fertile Ground For Activists
• Torrent Pharma To Pay $323M For Elder's Formulations Biz
• FMC Sells Peroxygen Unit For $200M To One Equity Partners
• Bank Holding Co.'s Ch. 11 Asset Sale Gets Nod
• Taxation With Representation: Tax Counsel On The Deal
• Deals Rumor Mill: Time Warner, Sprint, Icahn
• Entergy, ITC Holdings Pull Plug On $1.8B Transmission Deal
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Paul Hastings' Elizabeth Noe
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Bartlit's Rebecca Weinstein Bacon
• 5 Steps To A Successful Cross-Examination
• Irish High Court Approves Perrigo's $8.6B Elan Buy
• Reed Smith Lures Tech Deals Pro From Wilson Sonsini
• Tronox Trust Wins Up To $14B In Kerr-McGee Spinoff Row
• Bill Gates Pays $200M For Mexican Four Seasons
• Ore. High Court Frees Tektronix From $3.7M Tax Liability
• Chile's CorpBanca Considering Foreign Buyout Offers
• Bankrupt Hotel Staffing Co.'s $23M Sale Gets Judge's OK
• GM Rakes In $1.3B For Remaining Ally, Peugeot Stakes
• Indian Court Unfreezes Nokia Assets, Clearing Way For Sale
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: White And Williams' Patti Santelle
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Mayer Brown's Debora De Hoyos
• Goldman Loans $120M To Warburg-Backed Warehouse Firm
• Roche, Prothena Form $600M Parkinson's Partnership
• Fortum Gets $3.5B For Finnish Electricity Grid Co.
• CPPIB Puts Up $128M For Assiniboia Farmland Portfolio
• Deals Rumor Mill: CVC Capital, Dish, European Commission
• Dufry Puts Up $452M To Round Out Hellenic Duty Free Stake
• Kramer Levin Guides $1.1B Sale Of US Rail Leasing Co.
• Dutch Cable Co. Ziggo Revives Liberty Takeover Talks
• SunTrust Nets $265M In RidgeWorth Unit Sale To Lightyear
• Jilted Stalking Horse Wants Dallas Bank Auction Reopened
• Bankrupt Savient Takes $120M Bid From Pharma Co. Crealta
• Ex-Troutman Atty Admits Lying In Nursing Home Buyout Suit
• Bankrupt Fla. Casino Gets Deadline For Stalking Horse Deal
• Fortis To Pay $4.3B To Snap Up Ariz. Utility Co.
• JDSU Puts Up $200M For Network Instruments
• FTC OKs Settlement With Actavis Over Warner Chilcott Buy
• CPPIB, Dexus Up Bid To $2.8B For Aussie Office Trust
• Schaeffler Protests $25M Reduction In Capital Loss Tax Claim
• Bridgepoint Education Tender Offer Is 'Disloyal,' Suit Says
• Advantage Rent A Car, Hertz Settle Lease Deal Dispute
• Anbang Grabs $2.2B Stake In China Merchants Bank
• Santander To Pay $649M For HSBC's Bank Of Shanghai Stake
• EU Court Backs Approval Of $8.5B Microsoft, Skype Deal
• Deals Rumor Mill: Men's Wearhouse, Scripps, Morgan Stanley
• CapitalWorks Snaps Up Morgenthaler Aircraft Test Gear Co.
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Morrison Cohen's Danielle Lesser
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Liner Grode's Angela Agrusa
• Greyhound Parent Rebuffs Hedge Fund's Sale Proposal
• Bain Bids $501M To Add Research Firm To Japanese Portfolio
• Surviving Corp. Gets Premerger Attorney-Client Privilege
• New EU Merger Rules: 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back
• Chicago Hospital Patients Get Class Cert. In Price-Hike Row
• Dish Chairman Finds No Quick Exit From LightSquared Row
• Despite Some Easing, Volcker Will Pose Challenges For Banks
• Fla. Beats Ill. For Newly Merged Office Depot HQ
• Banks To Keep Divestments Coming As Volcker Takes Shape
• Bracewell Lands Former V&E Energy Transactions Pro
• Kazakh Fund Drops $1.3B On Power Plant Stake, Hydro Co.
• Carlyle's Galaxy Scoops Up Linens 'N Things Brand
• CVS Caremark, Cardinal Health Form Generic Drug Supply JV
• Allocating IP Ownership, Use Rights In M&A Deals
• Miss. Blocks Entergy's $1.8B Transmission Sale
• Volvo Inks $1.1B Deal To Shed Equipment Rental Unit
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Akin Gump's Kerry Berchem
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Locke Lord's Cynthia Bast
• Latham Pilots Leonard Green's $225M Lucky Brand Jeans Buy
• US Financial Regulators Approve Volcker Rule
• Deals Rumor Mill: Novartis, Siemens, Blackstone
• Elliott Threatens To Block $8.4B Celesio Takeover
• Alibaba Invests $360M In Logistics Partnership With Haier
• UK's Kentz Pays $435M For US-Based Valerus
• Prime Healthcare Loses Bid To Block Hospital Sale To Rival
• Dechert Snags Ex-Akin Gump Energy, Infrastructure Partner
• Verizon Nabs EdgeCast To Boost Video, Web Capabilities
• TPG Telecom Drops $407M To Boost Broadband Infrastructure
• WhiteWave To Pay $600M For Organic Food Co. Earthbound
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Gibson Dunn's Mary Murphy
• Kirkland Guides Petroflow's $230M Ex-Drilling Partner Buy
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Arnold & Porter's Veronica Rendon
• Wachtell, Arnall Golden Guide Sysco's $8.2B US Foods Buy
• Alpha Inks $300M Deal To Sell Shale Gas JV Stake To Rice
• Abercrombie Sticks With CEO Despite Activist's Flak
• Essex Discloses $4.5B Offer For BRE After Rumors Boil Over
• Lloyds Lands $147M For RE Loan Portfolio
• Covidien Shells Out $860M For Israeli Medical Co.
• Post To Shell Out Nearly $700M For Healthy Brands
• AMR-US Airways Merger Takes Effect
• 2nd Circ. Clarifies Scope Of Discovery In Derivative Suits
• Deals Rumor Mill: Occidental, KKR, Freedom Group
• Hologic Hands Icahn 2 Board Seats To Head Off Proxy Fight
• Holding Co.'s Sale Of Dallas Bank Lacks Details, Creditors Say
• Customers Can't Block AMR-US Airways Merger
• Stock Valuation In Irex Cash-Out Backed By Pa. Appeals Court
• Taxation With Representation: Tax Counsel On The Deal
• PE Firm Nautic Buys Mental Health Pharmacy QoL Meds
• Hedge Fund Ups ThyssenKrupp Stake, Seeks Board Seats
• Texas Supreme Court Won't Revive $780M Suit Against AT&T
• Enel Inks $167.6M Deal To Sell Gas Stake To F2i, Ardian
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Debevoise's Peggy Davenport
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Reed Smith's Dusty Kirk
• Sears Announces Plans To Spin Off Lands' End Label
• Deals Rumor Mill: Chevron, Time Warner, Wing Hang
• Nestle Extends Slimdown With $1.2B Fragrance Co. Stake Sale
• Lloyds Rakes In $420M For Irish Retail Mortgage Portfolio
• Hotel Staffing Co.'s Sale Stiffs Unsecured Creditors, AIG Says
• For Energy M&A, US Shale Reigned Supreme In 2013
• Bankrupt Edwin Watts Golf Gets Nod For $40M Asset Sale
• LightSquared Defends Suit Against Dish Over $1B Debt Buy
• Brazil Pushes Antitrust Remedies On Education Merger
• German Antitrust Agency Outlines Limits Of M&A Controls
• FTC Staff Want Ardagh Spinoff Plans Kept From Merger Trial
• EU Simplifies Merger Rules, Trims Notification Demands
• Winston Nabs Baker Botts, Fulbright Energy Pros In Houston
• Credit Suisse Sells German Banking Unit To ABN Amro
• Deals Rumor Mill: America Movil, JC Penney, Wilbur Ross
• BRE Investor Urges Sale Amid Report of $5B Offer
• 4 Tips For Staving Off A Second-Bite Proxy Contest
• BASF Hoarding Escrow Fund After $1B Deal, Suit Says
• Carlsberg Finishes $476M Deal For Chongqing Majority Stake
• Southern Capital Offers $111M For Malaysian Higher Ed Co.
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Chadbourne's Lori Hoberman
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: O'Melveny's Carla Christofferson
• Delos, Satori Nab Coatings Maker California Products
• Russia's VTB Reports $1.2B Sale Of Half Of Telecom Giant
• Merck Shells Out $2.6B For Specialty Chemicals Maker
• BNP Paribas Puts Up $1.37B For Rabobank's Polish Unit
• Icahn Again Ups Nuance Stake, Stoking Sale Speculation
• Ametek Drops $128M On Power Management Systems Maker
• Archer Daniels Drops $3B GrainCorp Takeover After Rejection
• UK Antitrust Court Overturns Ban On Eurotunnel Ferry Plan
• DC Circ. Overturns FERC On Energy Facility Transfer
• Advantage Rent A Car's $36M Bankruptcy Loan Approved
• Goldman Is Liable For Failed Buyout, Dragon Founders Says
• $3B United-Continental Deal Hurt Market, 9th Circ. Told
• Icahn Urges Investor Vote On Scaled-Down Apple Buyback
• Global Aviation Plans Stalking Horse Sale To Cerberus Unit
• $130B Verizon-Vodafone Deal Gets Green Light From FCC
• TDR Capital Plans To Unload $207M Phoenix Group Stake
• Customers Lose Bid To Stall AMR, US Airways Merger
• OCZ Technology Gets Interim Nod For $23.5M DIP
• Getinge Plans $189M Offer For Pulsion Medical Systems
• Jenner & Block Adds Kaye Scholer M&A Pro To LA Office
• Allen & Overy Lures Former Aussie Antitrust Regulator
• Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco Drop $1.5B On Russian Co. Stake
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Hunton & Williams' Lisa Sotto
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Hogan Lovells' Emily Yinger
• PE Firm Golden Gate Seals Deal For Crash Test Dummy Co.
• Deals Rumor Mill: GM, Essex Property, Men's Wearhouse
• Chemtrade Pays $860M To Get General Chemical From PE Firm
• Travers Reps Bridgepoint In $302M Cambridge Education Buy
• US Objects To Edwin Watts Auction Over Contract Concerns
• Emerson Electric To Pay $571M For JV Stake From SPX
• Medicines Co. Puts Up $474M For Specialty Drugmaker
• SBA Puts Up $645M For More Brazilian Telecom Towers
• Lampert Hacks Down Sears Stake As Investors Seek Payouts
• Pearson Pays $720M For Brazilian English-Teaching Firm
• NRG Unit Pays $120M For Neb. Thermal Energy Firm
• Investor Says Abercrombie Should Remove CEO, Sell Itself
• 6 Suitors Emerge For Edwin Watts Golf Shops Ch. 11 Auction
• Chernin Group Grabs Majority Stake In Video Streaming Site
• Deals Rumor Mill: KKR, Bridgepoint, Toshiba
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: K&L Gates' Janice Hartman
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: JAMS' Kimberly Taylor
• Haggar Acquires Tribal Sportswear From Kilmer Capital
• Transferring Ownership Of IP Assets In M&A Deals
• Sealing The Deal: Greenberg Guides Consol's $3.5B Mine Sale
• Murray's $3.5B Consol Coal Mines Buy Gets Antitrust OK
• PVH Corp. Renews, Expands Warnaco's Manhattan HQ
• Elliott Wants Major Influence Over Buyout Target Celesio
• OCZ Technology Hits Ch. 11, Plans $35M Sale To Toshiba
• DOJ Approves Microsoft's $7B Nokia Mobile Buy
• Judge Won't Revisit Partial Toss Of Ex-Troutman Atty Suit
• NCR Puts Up $1.65B For Mobile Banking Co.
• HeartWare Buys CircuLite In Deal That Could Reach $350M
• Dell Says $25B Buyout Didn't Undervalue Company
• AAR Acquires Cargo Loading System Assets From German Co.
• AB InBev Concealed Plans For Price Hikes, Beer Drinkers Say
• ArcelorMittal, Nippon Pay $1.55B For ThyssenKrupp Plant
• TransDigm Pays Metalmark $250M For Parachute Maker
• Dow Chemical Says It Will Unload $5B In Assets
• Spotlight On Latin America Business Risks
• Clifford Chance Reps Rockwood In $400M Lithium Venture
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: DLA Piper's Tara Lee
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Jones Day's Lizanne Thomas
• Linklaters Reps Alinda In Deal For Polish TV Towers Co.
• Deals Rumor Mill: Carlyle, Versace, Foster Wheeler
• Mild Modifications To The R&D Tax Credit