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- Represented ACE Ltd. (NYSE: ACE), a global leader in insurance and reinsurance, in its $2.4 billion acquisition of Combined Insurance Company of America and certain subsidiaries from AON Corporation.
- Represented Allied Waste (NYSE: AW), the second largest non-hazardous solid waste services company in the United States, in its merger with Republic Services Inc. The merger had a market value in excess of $6 billion. Our work included advising the client in connection with a competing bid made by Waste Management Inc.
- Advised Assured Guaranty (NYSE: AGO), a Bermuda-based financial guaranty company, in its $722 million acquisition of financial guaranty insurance company, Financial Security Assurance, Inc., from Dexia SA.
- Represented CBOT Holdings Inc., parent company of the Chicago Board of Trade, in their merger with Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings, a transaction with a market value at closing of about $12 billion. Our work on this matter included advising our clients in responding to a competing offer and proxy fight initiated by InterContinental Exchange, Inc.
- Represented Chevy Chase Bank (NYSE: CCX-PC), the largest locally-owned bank in the Washington D.C. area, in its $520 million sale to Capital One Financial Corporation.
- Represented Dobson Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DCEL), a provider of rural and suburban wireless communications services, in the sale of the company to AT&T Inc. (NYSE: ATT) for $2.8 billion.
- Represented George Weston Ltd. (FTSE: WN), a Canadian public company, in the sale of the US fresh bread and baked goods business of its subsidiary Dunedin Holdings S.a.r.l. to Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V. for approximately $2.5 billion.
- Represented The Jordan Company in its $500 million acquisition of a majority stake in marine transport company Harvey Gulf International Marine, Inc.
- Represented LBO France in tax structuring, tax modeling, corporate and financing matters on its €1.9 billion acquisition of 33 percent of Converteam Group SAS, a global leader in power conversion engineering serving the marine and offshore, oil and gas, and energy markets, from Barclays Private Equity Ltd.
- Represented Micromania management on the $700 million sale of its stake in Micromania to GameStop Corporation from private equity fund, L Capital.
- Represented Nestlé (SIX: NESN) in its $5.5 billion acquisition of Novartis's Gerber baby foods business. We also represented Nestlé in connection with the acquisition of the $2.6 billion worldwide medical nutrition business of Novartis AG.
- Represented Precision Drilling Trust (NYSE: PDS) in its $2 billion acquisition of Grey Wolf Inc., a leading provider of turnkey and contract oil and gas land drilling services.
- Represented ProLogis (NYSE:PLD), a leading global provider of distribution facilities, in the $1.3 billion sale of its operations in China and property fund interests in Japan to GIC Real Estate Pte Ltd, the real estate investment company of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation.
- Represented TransCanada Corporation (NYSE: TRP) in its $2.9 billion acquisition of Ravenswood Power Generating Facility from National Grid plc.
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