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Developments
Select Companies
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Fedex
United
Parcel Service Inc
Yellow
Roadway
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Notable Deals
Overnite / United Parcel Service Cash Merger
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UPS
acquires a "less-than-truckload" delivery company
Deal
terms
Advisors
- UPS: Bear Stearns / King & Spalding
- Overnite: Morgan Stanley / Hunton & Williams
Announced
5.16.05
Completed
8.08.05
Proxy
solicitation
Agreements
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USF / Yellow Roadway Stock-Cash Merger Cash Election Merger
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$1.7
billion cash/stock merger
Terms of transaction were revised:
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Cash portion increased to 65%, from
50%
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Stock portion no
longer tax-free
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Cash election
eliminated
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Approval of Buyer's shareholders no longer required

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Summary
- Revision followed USF missing consensus earnings
estimates for 1Q 2005
- Increasing cash portion reduces need for buyer to
repurchase shares post-merger
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Increases buyer's pro forma
earnings accretion
Deal
terms
- 0.31584 YELL share plus $29.25, per USF share

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Reverse triangular merger, using LLC merger subsidiary
- One USF nominee to join YELL board
Advisors
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- YELL: IFL Capital / Fulbright & Jaworski
- USF: Morgan Stanley / Sullivan & Cromwell
Announced
2.27.05
Revised
5.02.05
Completed
5.24.05
Agreements
Proxy
Solicitation
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opinions
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