Dell / Cravath / Swaine & Moore / Farr & Gallagher NBCUniversal Media LLC / Silver Lake Partners LP / Farr & Gallagher BMC Software Inc / Sidley Austin / Gotshal & Manges Verizon Wireless Inc / Skadden Arps / Verizon Communications Inc / Appleby Brookfield Office Properties Inc / Norton / Target / Ares Management LLC / Golden Gate Capital / Omnicom Group Inc / Torys Neiman Marcus Group Inc / Fangda Partners / American International Group Inc / Sullivan & Cromwell / Tolles & Olson HJ Heinz Company / NautaDutilh International Lease Finance Corporation / Publicis Groupe SA / Deal Count 1 The Carlyle Group / Liberty Global Plc / Milbank / Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc / Miaja Abogados Koninklijke KPN NV / Leonard Green & Partners / Emerging / Steen & Hamilton TPG Capital LP / Myers Virgin Media Inc / General Electric Company / Debevoise & Plimpton Vodafone Group Plc / Berkshire Hathaway Inc / Advising Microsoft Corporation / Rosen & Katz Dell Inc / King & Wood / 3G Capital Partners / Warburg Pincus LLC / Comcast Corporation / H.J. Heinz / AerCap Holdings NV / America Movil SAB de CV / Sullivan & Cromwell Dell Inc / Latham & Watkins Life Technologies Corp / Brookfield Property Partners LP / GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd / Blackstone Group / Bain Capital LLC / Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co / TPG Capital / /
Continent
Africa / Asia / Europe / Americas / /
Country
Japan / United States / Canada / /
Currency
pence / USD / /
Event
M&A / /
Holiday
Christmas / /
Organization
Minter Ellison Government / Regional league / Plan Investment Board / /
Person
Harris Shriver / Russell McVeagh / Ward Phillips / Michael Dell / Flora Wilke / Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton / Rose Fulbright / Herbert Smith Freehills / Frank Harris / Calder Slaughter / Arthur Cox / Graydon Linklaters / Ellis Simpson Thacher / Herbert Smith Freehills Port Botany / May Blake / Frank Harris Shriver / Ellis Baker / Sophie Kim / Paul Hastings / Davis Polk / Chrissy Carney / Zaynab Dost / Raquel Mozzer / Nancy Honsinger / / /
Position
Target Company Target/Seller Legal Advisor / growth Legal Advisors / advisor / Bidder Company Bidder Legal Advisors / Private investor / Announced Date Bidder Company Bidder Legal Advisors / Seller Legal Advisors / legal advisor / legal advisors / /
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