Developments
Notable
Deals
iVillage / NBC Universal Cash Merger
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GE
company to buy online destination for women
Advisors
- NBC: Weil Gotshal
- IVIL: JP Morgan / Orrick Herrington
Announced
3.06.06
Closed
5.15.06
Proxy
solicitation
Agreements
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Pixar / Walt Disney Stock Merger
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Disney
acquires leading computer animation company
- Resolves issues over continued DIS-PIXR
collaboration
- Which started with Toy Story in 1991
- $7.4B all stock ($6.3B net of PIXR cash)
- Deal was heavily reported in the days before
announcement
- Companies made no comment until deal was
finalized
- Disney gave assurances about Pixar independence
- Agreed to voting agreement
- Closing is conditioned on key executives
remaining

Announced
1.24.06
Closed
5.05.06
Advisors
- DIS: Goldman / Bear Stearns / Skadden /
Dewey Ballantine
- PIXR: Credit Suisse / Wilson Sonsini
Proxy
solicitation
Form S-4
2.17.06
Agreements
- Limited to 40% of outstanding PIXR shares
- Jobs holds 53.1%
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JAMDAT Mobile / Electronic Arts
Cash Merger
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Leading
electronic gaming company buys
wireless phone game maker
Advisors
- ERTS: Fenwick & West
- JMDT: CSFB / Sheppard Mullin
Announced
12.08.05
Closed
2.16.06
Agreements
SEC_CODE_REF_0090001192884
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Warner Music Group IPO
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$554.2
million IPO of a leading music company
- 32.6 milllion shares sold at $17.00
- Cut from filing of 37.5 million at $24.00
- Trading symbol: WMG
- Acquired
by buyout group from Time Warner in 2004
- Thomas H. Lee Funds
- Bain Capital Funds
- Music Capital Partners
- Simpson Thacher / Cahill Gordon
Final
prospectus 5.10.05
SEC
registration
Filed
documents
Employment
Matters
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Viacom Split-Up
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Breaking the company into two public companies
- Growth
company centered on MTV Networks
- Operated by Tom Freston
- High-multiple currency for
accretive acquisitions
- Cash
generating company centered on CBS and radio
- Operated by Les Moonves
- Cash flow to generate stock
buybacks and dividends
- Expected to be completed year-end 2005
Announced
3.16.05
SEC
filings
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MGM / Sony-led Consortium (2004)
Cash Merger
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Buyout
by consortium, including
- Sony Corporation of America
- Comcast
- Providence Equity Partners
- Texas Pacific Group
- DLJ Merchant Banking Partners
Advisors
- Buyout group: Goldman, BoA Securities, Morgan
Stanley / Dewey Ballantine / Skadden / Davis Polk
- MGM: Latham
Announced
9.13.04
Closed
4.11.05
Letter
of intent - $150 million deposit
- Sony made a $150 million "unconditional non-refundable deposit" to help win
auction of MGM
- Sony
agreed that its consortium would agree to a draft merger agreement subject only to "clean-up" changes
- Deposit was only refundable if MGM entered into a transaction with a third
party or had a "material adverse change"
- Helped Sony to buy time for consortium to win auction
- Deposit was about 3% of purchase price
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Deposit agreement
9.13.04
Proxy
solicitation
Agreements
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AOL / Time Warner Merger of Equals
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Combined
new media company with old
Announced
1.10.00
- Includes press release, merger agreement,
reciprocal stock option agreements
Deal
documents
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