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Also see Private Equity
July 2007
 Dow Jones
board approves News Corp offer
RBS
group reaffirms its unsolicited offer for ABN AMRO
Alcoa
withdraws offer for Alcan Rio Tinto
makes a $38.1B unsolicited offer for Alcan
June 2007
Flextronics
to acquire Solectron
for $3.6B Wachovia
to acquire AG Edwards
May 2007
RBS
group makes $95.6B unsolicited offer for ABN AMRO
Cerberus
to acquire control of Chrysler Mylan Labs
to buy Merck KGaA's generics business Thomson
- Reuters reveal details about merger  Alcoa
makes a $33B unsolicited offer for Alcan BAE
Systems to acquire Armor Holdings
for $4.1B
Liberty
Mutual to acquire Ohio Casualty
for $2.7B News
Corp bear hugs
Dow Jones
April 2007 MedImmune
in $15B sale to AstraZeneca  Sallie Mae
in $25.2B buyout Google
to buy DoubleClick for $3.1B
Mirant
to explore strategic options Affordable Residential Communities
in exclusive talks Dow Chemical
denies buyout rumors
KKR
is sole sponsor of $29B First Data buyout Sam
Zell and ESOP to take Tribune
private
March 2007
Barclays
in talks with ABN AMRO
(re $80B merger) ServiceMaster
in $5.5B buyout EGL
accepts $1.7B CEO buyout proposal
Triad buyout
terminated over superior competing deal
CVS
wins contest for Caremark Hercules Offshore
to acquire TODCO for $2.3B
ICE
makes a $9.9B competing offer for Chicago Board Cisco
to buy WebEx
in two-step merger for $3.2B GE
to take PHH
private for $1.8B
Clear Channel
delays shareholder vote on buyout Lehman
buys 20% stake in DE Shaw hedge fund Ford
to sell Aston Martin UnitedHealth
to acquire Sierra Health for $2.6B Schering-Plough
to buy Organon from Akzo for $14.4B
Citigroup
offers $10.8B to control Japanese broker A&P
to acquire
Pathmark
for $1.3B SafeNet
in $634mm buyout Oracle
to acquire Hyperion
in $3.3B two-step merger Aeroflex
in $1.0B buyout Carl
Icahn to substantially increase Motorola
holdings
February 2007 New Plan Excel Realty Trust
in $6.2B two-step merger
TXU
in $44.5B deal with KKR and TPG Station Casinos
in $5.5B management-led buyout Sirius and XM Satellite
in $13B merger of equals
Vulcan
Materials to acquire Florida Rock
for $4.6 BBVA
to acquire Compass Bancshares
for $9.6B 
Blackstone
wins bidding for
Equity Office Properties Triad Hospitals
in $6.4B buyout Carl Icahn
to acquire
Lear Corp
January 2007
Altria
to spin-off Kraft Foods
Blackstone
raises its offer for
Equity Office Properties
Rumored:
Bristol-Myers merging with Sanofi-Aventis Merrill Lynch
to acquire First Republic Bank
for $1.8B
Cablevision committee
rejects Dolan
family offer
December 2006
AT&T
closes
BellSouth acquisition Huntington Bancshares
to buy Sky Financial for $3.6B Caremark Rx
gets $26B competing offer from rival Morgan Stanley to spin off Discover Card
Former
Cendant unit (Realogy)
in $9B buyout Biomet
in $10.9B buyout Sabre Holdings
in $5.0B buyout Bank of New York
to acquire Mellon for $17.6B Station Casinos
gets $4.7B management-led offer
LSI Logic
to acquire Agere Systems for $4.0B
November 2006
Freeport-McMoRan
to acquire Phelps Dodge
for $25.9B
Equity Office Properties Trust
in $19B buyout Nasdaq
makes $5.1B bid for London Stock Exchange
Evraz
to acquire Oregon Steel Mills
for $2.3B
Charles Schwab
sells US Trust to Bank America for $3.3B
Clear Channel
in $18.7 buyout US
Airways makes unsolicited $8B offer for Delta Air RailAmerica
in $640mm buyout Eddie Bauer
in $614mm buyout Genentech
to buy Tanox for $919mm
H-P
completes $4.5 acquisition of Mercury Interactive Swift Transportation
gets $2.2B buyout offer McKesson
to acquire Per-Se Technology
for $1.8B Four Seasons Hotels
gets $3.7B buyout offer OSI Restaurant Partners
in $3.2B buyout
Abbott
to acquire Kos Pharma
in $3.7B two-step merger Oracle
to acquire Stellent
in $400mm two-step merger FCC
delays BellSouth - AT&T vote
again SEC
issues final release for changes to
Best Price Rule Caremark Rx
- CVS in merger of equals RR
Donnelley to acquire Banta
for $1.3B
October 2006
Merck
to buy Sirna Therapeutics for $1.1B Universal American
gets $1.0B buyout proposal Yankee Candle
in $1.4 buyout Constellation - FPL merger
terminated Clear Channel
hires Goldman to explore alternatives Thomson Corp
to divest education business
SEC
amends
Best Price Rule
to address court split
Eli Lilly to buy its Cialis JV
partner (ICOS) for $2.1B Chicago
Merc to acquire Chicago Board of Trade
for $8B Level
3 to acquire Broadwing
for $1.4B Citigroup
to buy 20% of Turkish bank for $3.1B Oshkosh Truck
to buy JLG Industries for $3.2B
Open Solutions
in $1.3B buyout FCC
delays acting on
BellSouth - AT&T Jacuzzi
in $1.25B buyout Google
to buy
YouTube for $1.65B Dolan
family offers to take Cablevision
private PNC
to acquire Mercantile Bankshares
for $6.0B Crown Castle
to buy Global Signal
for $4.0B Chattem
to acquire divested brands from J&J-Pfizer
Baxter Int'l
sells transfusion business to TPG for $540mm Harrah's Entertainment
gets $15.1B buyout proposal Gilead
Sciences to buy Myogen
for $2.5B
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