Previous Transactions

• Client
• Segment
• Deal Description

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• Financial Services
• Advised Aetna Life & Casualty on the acquisition of US Healthcare

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Ahmsa on the assessment of strategic alternatives

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Ahmsa on a merger with and contribution of Grupo Acerero del Norte’s mining assets

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Ajinomoto on the sale of an interest in seven of its joint ventures with CPC to Unilever for $400 million

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• Food & Beverage - Industrial & Chemicals - Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised Grupo Alfa on the restructuring of debt with creditors’ banks

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Alicorp on the acquisition of La Fabril for $209 million

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Alicorp on the acquisition of Molinera del Perú

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Alicorp on the acquisition of Nicolini Hermanos

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Alicorp on the sale of an equity interest to JPM Capital

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• Healthcare
• Advised Allergan on the spin-off of Allergan Pharmaceuticals as part of the merger between Allergan and Beckman Instruments

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• Retail
• Advised Alpargatas on the acquisition of Forest Fábrica de Conductores from Penn Central Telecommunications Company

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• Retail
• Advised Alpargatas on the sale of a 20% interest in Tejidos Argentinos to Greenwood Mills

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• Retail
• Advised Alpargatas on a restructuring of debt and refinancing strategy

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised AmBev on the acquisition of a controlling interest in Malteria Pampa

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• Financial Services
• Advised AmeriCredit Corporation on a high yield offering

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• Healthcare
• Advised AMN Healthcare on a $100 million follow-on offering of common shares

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Anheuser-Busch on the acquisition of an equity interest in Cervejaria Antarctica

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Arancia on the Sale of Ingro to Productos Corinter

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Arancia on the sale of Emabasa to Alimentos del Fuerte

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• Agribusiness
• Advised Arancia on the formation of a joint venture with Corn Products Corporation

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Grupo Arcor on the acquisition of Dos en Uno in Chile

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Armstrong on the formation of a joint venture with Internacional de Cerámica

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Associated British Foods on the acquisition of Mazola and selected brands from Unilever

• Associates First Capital
• Financial Services
• Advised Associates First Capital on the sale of First Capital Corporation to Ford

• Astra
• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Argentine oil conglomerate Astra on the sale of a controlling interest to Repsol

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised AT&T of the merger of its Japanese ISP business with those of Japan Telecom and British Telecom

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised AT&T on the acquisition of minority interest in Japan Telecom for $1.8 billion

• Azoogle Holdings
• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised Azoogle Holdings on the assessment of majority re-capitalization by investor group

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Bacardi on the buy-in of a secondary interest in Martini Rossi

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Bacardi on the rax-free reorganization of Martini Rossi international operations

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Bacardi on the acquisition of Martini & Rossi

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Backus on the acquisition of Compañía Nacional de Cerveza

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Backus on the formation of a holding company through the merger of tour publicly-traded companies

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• Financial Services
• Advised Banco Santander Central Hispano on the acquisition of Mexican Grupo Financiero Serfin

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• Financial Services
• Advised Bank of New York Co on the acquisition of Irving Bank Corp

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised BC Partners on the financing of the €1.0 billion leverage buyout of Galbani

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Birds Eye Foods on the sale of an equity interest to Vestar

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Bosch on the formation of a global auto parts joint venture with Valeo

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• Healthcare
• Advised Boston Scientific on the issuance of senior unsecured debt for $700 million

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised British American Tobacco on the sale of its Chilean food business Malloa to Unilever for $120 million

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised British American Tobacco on the sale of its canned food business to Unilever

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised British Petroleum on the acquisition of Amoco Corp

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised British Petroleum on its merger with Standard Oil Co.

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• Agribusiness
• Advised Cargill on the acquisition of Agribrands

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• Agribusiness
• Advised Cargill on the sale of Granja del Sol in Argentina

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• Agribusiness
• Advised Cargill on the acquisition of São Valentim flour mills in Brazil

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• Agribusiness
• Advised Cargill on the acquisition of Cerestar

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• Retail
• Advised Casa Autry on the acquisition of Publicaciones CITEM

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Caterpillar on the review of capital structure and financing strategies

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Cemex on the acquisition of a controlling interest in Empresas Tolteca

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Cemex on the acquisition of Compañía Valenciana de Cementos Portland through a public tender

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Cemex on the acquisition of La Auxilar de la Construcción (Sanson) from La Corporación

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Cemex on the acquisition of Pacific Coast Cement Company

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Cemex on the acquisition of the publicly traded shares of Empresas Tolmex through a public exchange offer

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Cemex on the formation of control group with Empresas Mendoza, to own 51% of Vencemos, S.A.C.A.

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Cemex on the sale of an interest in Celanese Mexicana to Hoechst

• CFE
• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised CFE in Mexico on implementing project financing structures for generation assets

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Chrysler on the development of its Argentina entry strategy

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Church & Dwight on the formation of its ArmKel joint venture with Kelso & Company

• Cifra
• Retail
• Advised Cifra on its sale to Wal-Mart

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Cimpor on the sale of Brennand’s cement business to Cimpor for $595 million

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Cirio on the tender offer for Del Monte Royal, providing Cirio control over the Del Monte business in Europe, Africa and Asia

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• Financial Services
• Co-managed CIT Group’s initial public offering

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Clorox on the sale of Clorox Brazil

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Clorox on the sale of Pinesol to Colgate in Brazil

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Clorox on the sale of Himolene to Heritage Bag in the U.S.

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised The Coca-Cola Company on the acquisition of Inchcape’s bottling business for $750 million

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised FEMSA on the formation of a joint venture with Coca-Cola establishing Coca-Cola FEMSA

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Coca-Cola FEMSA on the acquisition of Coca Cola in Argentina

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Coca-Cola FEMSA on the acquisition of SIRSA

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Coca-Cola FEMSA on the acquisition of an interest in Coke’s local operations

• Cone
• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Cone on the formation of a joint venture with with Cia. Industrial de Parras

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Coors on its equity offering

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Coty on the sale of its Chinese cosmetics business, Yue Sai Kan, to L’Oreal

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Courtaulds on its sale to Akzo Nobel

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Courtaulds on the IPO of Courtaulds -Textiles

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised C-Tec Corp. on the acquisition of Megacable

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Cuervo on a unique receivables financing on tequila payables

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Vale on the assessment of strategic alternatives for Aluvale

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Groupe Danone on the formation of a joint venture with Suntory Water Group establishing DS Waters

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Groupe Danone on the formation of the CCDA joint venture with Coca-Cola and on establishing the Evian Master Distribution Agreement

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Groupe Danone on the acquisition of McKesson Water in the U.S.

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Groupe Danone on the tender for Bagley public interest in Argentina

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Groupe Danone on the acquisition of Villavicencio in Argentina

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Groupe Danone on the acquisition of Salus in Uruguay

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Groupe Danone on the acquisition of AquaPenn in the U.S.

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Groupe Danone on the acquisition of the Salus bottled water business in a joint bid with AmBev

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• Retail
• Advised Domino’s Pizza on the sale of a majority interest to Bain Capital

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• Financial Services
• Advised Dresdner Bank on the takeover of Kleinwort Benson Group

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Grupo Kuo (Desc) on the acquisition of Authentic Specialty Foods in the U.S.

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Grupo Kuo (Desc) on the sale of the ASF Tortilla division to GRUMA in Mexico

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• Agribusiness
• Advised Grupo Kuo (Desc) on the sale of Campi to Bachoco in Mexico

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised the Government of Guatemala on the sale of a 95% interest in National Telecommunications Company to consortium of local investors and Telmex as operator

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised EDF/Endesa on electricity privatization process in Argentina

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Electrolux on the acquisition of Refrigeração Paraná (Refripar)

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Electrolux on the delisting of its Brazilian subsidiary

• ELM/Pulsar Group
• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised ELM/Pulsar Group on the sale of CLM tobacco business to BAT for $1.7 billion

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised ELM/Pulsar Group on the restructuring of the group’s holdings and insurance business for $1.3 billion

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised ELM/Pulsar Group on the contribution of Bionova for 70% of DNA Plant Technologies

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised ELM/Pulsar Group on its equity offering

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised E.M. Jorgensen on its sale to Kelso and Company

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• Healthcare
• Advised Endo Pharmaceuticals on the follow-on offering of common shares $900 million

• Equitable Life Assurance
• Financial Services
• Advised Equitable Life Assurance on the cash infusion into Equitable Life Assurance by Groupe Axa

• Equitilink
• Financial Services
• Advised Equitilink on its sale to Aberdeen Asset Management

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• Retail
• Advised Farmacias Benavidas on the formation of a wholesaling joint venture with Casa Autrey

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised FEMSA on the formation of a joint venture with John Labatt

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised FEMSA on the sale of an equity interest to Unifund

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised FEMSA on the $1.0 billion bridge loan to VISA

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised FEMSA on the sale of Peñafiel to Cadbury Schweppes

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Fluor on the sale of Compañía Minera Aguilar to Compañía Minera del Sur

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advsed FMC on the buyout of a Brazilian oil drilling equipment manufacturer

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Ford on the divestiture of Philco (three consumer electronics operations) to Investimentos Itaú S.A.

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• Retail
• Advised Forte on its sale to Granada Group

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• Agribusiness
• Advised Foster Farms on the acquisition of Zacky Farms

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Frantschach Group on the sale of Copamex’s industrial sack operation

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• Healthcare
• Advised Genentech on the sale of a remaining 33% interest to Roche

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• Food & Beverage - Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised General Motors on the formation of a joint venture with Empresas Mendoza

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised The Gillette Corporation on the acquisition of Duracell International

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Graphic Packaging (Riverwood Int’l Corp.) on the sale of a partial interest in its Brazilian operation to Cia. Suzano de Papel e Celulose

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• Financial Services
• Co-managed Grupo Financiero BBVA Bancomer’s follow-on equity offering

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Grupo Mexico on the acquisition of Cananea

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Grupo Mexico on the formation of a joint venture with Union Miniere

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Grupo Mexico on export financing for Mexicana de Cobre

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Grupo Mexico on the acquisition of Compañía Minera de Canañea from the Mexican government

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Grupo Mexico on the acquisition of Mexicana de Cobre from the Mexican government

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Grupo Zapata on a debt restructuring with local banks

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Heinz on a Reverse Morris Trust with Del Monte Foods for pet food/tuna

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Heinz on its European expansion strategy including acquisition of branded food business of CSM for €300 million

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• Healthcare
• Advised Hoechst on its merger with Roussel Uclaf

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• Healthcare
• Advised Hoechst on the acquisition of Marion Merrell Dow for $140 million

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• Healthcare
• Advised Hospital Corp of America on a management buyout

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Hylsamex on its participation in Consorcio Siderurgia Amazonia which acquired 70% of Venezuelan steel company Sidor

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised IAMS on its sale to Procter & Gamble

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised IBM on the sale of its typewriter and keyboard business to Clayton & Dubilier

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised ICI on the acquisition of Bunge Paints in Latin America

• Ilios LLC
• Financial Services - Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised Ilios on a minority investment in stock surveillance company

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Imperial Tobacco/West on the financing of the €5.2 billion Reemtsma acquisition

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• Consumer Products & Retail - Financial Services - Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised In2M on a minority investment in personal finance platform

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• Financial Services
• Advised Infinity on the initial public offering of its Non-Standard Auto Insurance (IPCC)

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised Inform Technologies on its Series A, Series B and Series C financing

• Invermexico
• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Invermexico on the acquisition of a controlling interest in Somex from the Mexican Government

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Ipiranga on the acquisition of ARCO’s downstream marketing units in Brazil

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised JOYCO USA on the management buyout from the JOYCO Group

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Japan Tobacco International on a transforming European acquisition

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Kamps on the development of its defense strategy and subsequent sale to Barilla for €1.8 billion

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Kamps on the issue of the first significant corporate high yield bond in Germany for €300 million

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Kamps on a debt restructuring and tender for convertible bonds for €700 million

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Kimberly-Clark on the formation of a joint venture with Brazilian tissue player Klabin

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• Retail
• Advised Kmart on the sale of Kmart Mexico to CCM in Brazil

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• Agribusiness
• Advised Land O’ Lakes on the acquisition of Purina Mills

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• Retail
• Advised Liverpool on the buyout of minority shareholders for $110 million

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• Retail
• Advised Lojas Americanas on the sale of its supermarkets to Comptoirs Modernes in Brazil

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• Retail
• Advised Lojas Renner on the sale of a control interest to JC Penney in Brazil

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Mars on its valuation and shareholder reorganization

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Marsh & McLennan Cos on the acquisition of Johnson & Higgins

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Mavesa on the acquisition of Cargill’s Venezuelan mayonnaise brands

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Mavesa on the sale of edible oil division to Cargill

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised McDonnell Douglas on its sale to Boeing

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised MetalLeve on the sale of a controlling interest to a consortium formed by Mahle and Cofap

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Michelin on the sale of its Synthetic Rubber business to a group of financial Investors

• Mid Ocean Ltd.
• Financial Services
• Advised Mid Ocean on the sale of a 75% interest to Exel Limited

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• Financial Services
• Advised National Westminster Bankon its buyout by RBS

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Nabisco on the acquisition of Terabusi public interest in Argentina

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised National Grid on bidding for Peruvian transmission assets

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Nestlé on the acquisition of D’Onofrio ice cream business in Peru

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised Nortel on telecommunications privatization process in Argentina

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised North West Water on water privatization process in Argentina

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Nova Chemicals on gas privatization process in Argentina

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Procter & Gamble on the acquisition of Clairol in the U.S.

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Procter & Gamble on the acquisition of PUR Filtres

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Procter & Gamble on the sale of its commercial oil division

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised PDVSA on the formation of a joint venture between BITOR and Conoco, Total, Marubeni, Itochu

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised PDVSA on the formation of a joint venture to develop coal transportation for Carbozulia

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Pemex on the sale of 61 petrochemical plants in Mexico

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Pemex on the sale of a 49% interest in its aviation business to Grupo Protexa

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised PepsiCo on the acquisition of Gamesa in Mexico

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Philip Morris/ Kraft on the sale of its ice cream business in Argentina to Unilever

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Philip Morris/ Kraft on the sale of Fleischman Yeast to Burns Philp in Brazil

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Philip Morris / Kraft on the sale of Knox Gelatin sale to NBTY in the U.S.

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Philip Morris / Kraft on the sale of Monthelado to Unilever in Argentina

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Quaker Oats Company on its sale to PepsiCo

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Quaker Oats Company on the sale of Adria to Macri in Brazil

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• Healthcare
• Advised Roche on the acquisition of Corange

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• Healthcare
• Advised Roche on the acquisition of Syntex

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• Healthcare
• Advised Roche on the acquisition of Genentech

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• Healthcare - Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Roussel Uclaf on the acquisition of DOW LAPG in Latin America

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• Healthcare - Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Roussel Uclaf on the merger with Hoechst Latin American operations

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised SAB on the acquisition of Miller Brewing Company

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised San Miguel Corporation on its expansion strategy

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• Retail
• Advised Santa Isabel on its sale to Velox

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised SBC on exiting from VTR, their Chilean Joint Venture, through a series of transactions

• Schneider Logemann
• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Schneider Logemann on the sale of its farm equipment business to John Deere in Brazil

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• Retail
• Advised Sears on the sale of a controlling interest in Sears de Mexico to Grupo Carso

• Seguros La Comercial
• Financial Services
• Advised Seguros La Comercial on the acquisition of Seguros America

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• Financial Services
• Advised Seguros Monterrey on the formation of a joint venture with Aetna

• SG Warburg Group
• Financial Services
• Advised SG Warburg Group on its sale to Swiss Bank

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised SmithKline Beckman on its merger with Britain’s Beecham

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised SmithKline Beckman on a $1.2 billion share buyback

• Southern Electrical International
• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Southern Electrical International on bidding for a controlling stake in CEMIG in Brazil

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Southern Peru on the sale of its electricity generation assets to Energía del Sur

• Sudacia
• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Sudacia on the sale of its equity interest in Cointel to Citicorp Equity Investment in Argentina

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• Healthcare
• Advised Suros on the sale of medical device company to Hologic for $300 million

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Technit on steel privatization process in Argentina

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised Telecom Italia in bidding for Telebras assets being privatized. Telecom Italia won three properties

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised Telefonica on the acquisition of an equity interest in CRT, representing its entry into Brazil, for $680 million

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• Technology, Media & Telecom
• Advised Telefonica del Peru on its international stock offering

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Tenneco on the acquisition of assets from Georgia Pacific

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Texaco on the sale on an interest in its US refining and marketing system to Saudi Refining

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Tingyi on the formation of a beverage joint venture in China with Itochu and Asahi Soft drinks

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Toyota affiliate TOCARS on restructuring its operations

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• Advised Travelers Corp on its sale to Primerica

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised TRW Automotive on its review of performance and strategic opportunities

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• Agribusiness
• Advised Tyson Foods on the acquisition of Trasgo

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Unilever on the sale of Dos Alamos to NZDB in Chile

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised USX Marathon on Mexican multi billion dollar oil project

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Vitro on the sale of Anchor Glass to a consortium of Owens Illinois and Consumers Packaging

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Vitro on the sale of its 49.99% interest in Cydsa to Tomas Gonzalez-Sada

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Vitro on the sale of its Materias Primas mining operations to Unimin

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• Healthcare
• Advised Warner Lambert on the acquisition of Adams Argentina from G&S Holdings

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• Healthcare
• Advised Westinghouse on the sale of Thermo King Corp

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• Industrial & Chemicals
• Advised Westinghouse on the sale of Linthicum division to Northrop Grumman

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• Consumer Products & Retail
• Advised Wyeth on the sale of Kolynos to Colgate Palmolive in Brazil

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• Food & Beverage
• Advised Yakult on the development of a defense strategy and subsequent global alliance with Danone