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Developments
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AmeriCredit
Countrywide
Financial
PHH
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Notable Transactions
Aames Invstmt / Accredited Home Lenders
Cash Election Merger
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Deal
terms
- $109 mm in cash
- Balance in Accredited stock
- Subject to cash election
Announced
5.25.06
Advisors
- Accredited: JP Morgan / DLA Piper Rudnick
- Aames: Credit Suisse / Sullivan & Cromwell
Agreements
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General Motors Acceptance / Buyout Group
Equity Purchase
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Cerberus-led
group to buy 51% of GMAC
- Proceeds provide GM with much-needed liquidity
- GM to get $14B in cash over three years
- $10B at closing
- Deal expected to help GMAC's debt ratings
- By decoupling them from GM's junk credit status
- Thereby lowering GMAC's borrowing costs
- Initial reaction from rating agencies is to
upgrade GMAC but not to desired investment grade status
- Funded with $25B in credit facilities
Advisors
- Buyout group (Cerberus): Schulte Roth
- GM: Kirkland & Ellis
- GM Board: Weil Gotshal
Announced
4.03.06
Agreements
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Collegiate Funding / JPMorgan Chase
Cash Merger
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JPM
buys student loan company for $663 million
- Adversely affects First Marblehead
Advisors
- JPM: JP Morgan Securities / Wachtell Lipton
- CFSI: Goldman Sachs / Simpson Thacher
Announced
12.15.05
Closed
3.01.06
Proxy
solicitation
Agreements
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Westcorp / Wachovia Stock Merger
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Creates
nations ninth largest auto loan originator
- Westcorp owns 84% of WFS Financial
- Wachovia buying in WFS publicly-held minority
interest
- $3.42 billion in Wachovia stock for Westcorp
- $0.49 billion in Wachovia stock for WFS public
minority
- $3.91 billion total
Advisors
- Wachovia: / Alston & Bird
- Westcorp Special Committee: CSFB / Morrison &
Foerster
- WFS Special Committee: Deutsche Bank / Skadden
Arps
Announced
9.12.05
Proxy
solicitation SEC_CODE_REF_0090001192884
Agreements
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Fidelity National Title Group
Partial Spin-off Title Insurer
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Taxable
distribution of 17.5% of largest US title insurer
- Which will retain 82.5% ownership
- Has 30.5% of US title insurance market
Announced
5.17.05
SEC
Filings
Agreements
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PHH Spin-off
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100%
spin-off by Cendant
- Effected by a dividend to Cendant shareholders
- PHH was already an SEC registrant,
so dividended shares were not SEC registered
- PHH had market cap of $1.2 billion at time of
spin-off
- Cendant-PHH joint venture to originate mortgages
through Cendants residential real estate brokerage and corporate relocation
businesses
- Slide presentation
Jan 2005
Announced
10.12.04
Closed
1.31.05
Information Statements
Agreements
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