Monthly M&A Insider - Mergermarket
Monthly M&A Insider - Mergermarket
Monthly M&A Insider - Mergermarket
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Mid-market deals<br />
Top 10 UK announced mid market deals YTD March 2009<br />
(€10m to €250m)<br />
Announced Status Target company Sector Target/seller<br />
financial<br />
adviser<br />
4-Mar-09 P The Cooperative<br />
Group (CWS)<br />
Limited (24<br />
Stores)<br />
27-Mar-09 P Ridge Mining<br />
Plc<br />
26-Mar-09 C JJB Sports<br />
(Fitness Clubs<br />
business)<br />
6-Mar-09 P Pro-Bel<br />
Limited; and<br />
Snell & Wilcox<br />
Limited<br />
27-Mar-09 C Yoplait Dairy<br />
Crest Limited<br />
(49% stake)<br />
Consumer Advising<br />
seller: Credit<br />
Suisse<br />
Energy,<br />
Mining &<br />
Utilities<br />
RBC Capital<br />
Markets<br />
Leisure Advising<br />
seller: Lazard;<br />
Panmure<br />
Gordon & Co<br />
Plc<br />
Target/seller<br />
legal adviser<br />
Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Addleshaw<br />
Goddard<br />
Field Fisher<br />
Waterhouse<br />
Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Halliwells;<br />
Herbert<br />
Smith/Gleiss<br />
Lutz/Stibbe<br />
Bidder company Bidder financial<br />
adviser<br />
Bidder legal<br />
adviser<br />
UK<br />
Seller company Deal<br />
Value<br />
(€m)<br />
J Sainsbury Plc CMS The Cooperative<br />
Group (CWS)<br />
Limited<br />
Aquarius<br />
Platinum Limited<br />
David Whelan<br />
Sports Limited<br />
TMT Arma Partners Snell-Wilcox and<br />
Pro-Bel Limited<br />
(MBO Vehicle)<br />
Consumer Advising<br />
seller:<br />
JPMorgan<br />
Cazenove<br />
31-Mar-09 P Bounty UK Ltd TMT Advising<br />
seller: Allen<br />
& Company;<br />
GMP<br />
Securities<br />
2-Mar-09 C Fernau Avionics<br />
Limited<br />
26-Mar-09 P Punch Taverns<br />
(Six London<br />
pubs)<br />
13-Mar-09 P GNE Group plc<br />
(73.20% stake)<br />
3-Mar-09 C Hero Insurance<br />
Services<br />
Limited<br />
19-Mar-09 P Pilat Media<br />
Global Plc<br />
TMT Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Jefferies &<br />
Company<br />
Leisure Advising<br />
seller: Sapient<br />
Corporate<br />
Finance<br />
Consumer Seymour<br />
Pierce<br />
Financial<br />
Services<br />
Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Fenchurch<br />
Advisory<br />
Partners<br />
TMT Shore Capital<br />
Group<br />
Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Stikeman<br />
Elliott<br />
Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Addleshaw<br />
Goddard<br />
Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Slaughter<br />
and May<br />
Berwin<br />
Leighton<br />
Paisner<br />
Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Lovells<br />
Barnea &<br />
Co; Berwin<br />
Leighton<br />
Paisner<br />
Bank of America<br />
Merrill Lynch;<br />
Euroz Securities;<br />
Lazard; Rand<br />
Merchant Bank<br />
Ernst & Young;<br />
Pricewaterhouse-<br />
Coopers<br />
Yoplait France SA SG; UBS<br />
Investment Bank<br />
Barclays Private<br />
Equity Limited<br />
Moog Controls<br />
Limited<br />
Fuller Smith &<br />
Turner Plc<br />
Norcliffe<br />
Investments Ltd<br />
Clayton Utz;<br />
Linklaters<br />
93<br />
91<br />
DLA Piper JJB Sports Plc 89<br />
Osborne<br />
Clarke<br />
Advent Venture<br />
Partners; and<br />
Lloyds TSB<br />
Development<br />
Capital Ltd<br />
Nabarro Dairy Crest<br />
Group Plc<br />
80<br />
68<br />
Travers Smith Kaboose Inc 58<br />
Internal Willans Dunedin<br />
Enterprise<br />
Investment<br />
Trust plc<br />
Not disclosed Not disclosed Punch Taverns<br />
Plc<br />
Investec<br />
Investment<br />
Banking<br />
Capita Group Plc Eversheds<br />
LLP<br />
SintecMedia Ltd Investec<br />
Investment<br />
Banking<br />
Gross<br />
Kleinhendler<br />
Hodak Halevy<br />
Greenberg &<br />
Co; Halliwells<br />
33<br />
23<br />
21<br />
LV= 17<br />
C = Completed; P = Pending; L = Lapsed Source: mergermarket<br />
17<br />
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