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FACTBOX-Top 10 mergers and acquisitions for H1 2009

Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:00am EDT

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 June 26 (Reuters) - Merger and acquisition volume dropped 44.5 percent in the first half of
2009, but there were still some blockbuster deals.
 The following chart are the ten largest deals for the first half of the year.
Value      Target            Acquirer         Acquirer Adviser                Target Adviser
(in bln)
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$64.48     Wyeth             Pfizer Inc       Bank of America Merrill Lynch   Morgan Stanley
        WYE.N           (PFE.N)          Goldman Sachs & Co              Evercore Partners
                                           JP Morgan
                                           Barclays PLC
                                           Citi
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$58        Rio Tinto         BHP Billiton     Goldman Sachs & Co              Morgan Stanley
        Iron Ore Assets   Iron Ore Assets  Gresham Partners
        (RIO.L)(RIO.AX)   (BHP.AX)         Lazard
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$45.91     Schering Plough   Merck & Co       JP Morgan                       Goldman Sachs & Co
        SGP.N           (MRK.N)                                          Morgan Stanley
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$22.32     Lloyds Banking    HM Treasury      Credit Suisse Group             JP Morgan Cazenove
        Group                              Deutsche Bank AG                UBS Investment Bank
        (LLOY.L)                                                           Citi
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$18.60     RBS               HM Treasury      Citi                            UBS Investment Bank
        (RBS.L)                            Credit Suisse Group             Morgan Stanley
                                           Deutsche Bank AG
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$18.25     Petro-Canada      Suncor Energy    CIBC World Markets Inc          RBC Capital Markets
        PCA.TO          (SU.TO)          Morgan Stanley                  Deutsche Bank AG
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$14.5      Liberty Media     DirecTV Group    Morgan Stanley                  Goldman Sachs & Co
        (LINTA.O)         (DTV.O)                                         JP Morgan
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$13.35     Barclays Global   BlackRock Inc    Citi                            Barclays Capital
        Investors         (BLK.N)          Credit Suisse                   Lazard
        (BARC.L)                           Bank of America Merrill Lynch   JP Morgan Cazenove
                                           Morgan Stanley
                                           Perella Weinberg Partners
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$12.44     Essent NV         RWE AG           JP Morgan                       Citi
                          (RWEG.DE)                                        Deutsche Bank AG
                                                         Lazard
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$11.39     MTN Group LTD     Bharti Airtel    Standard Chartered              Deutsche Bank AG
        (MTNJ.J)          (BRTI.BO)                                        Bank of America
                                                         Merrill Lynch
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Source: Thomson Reuters
 (For more on the Thomson Reuters global dealmaking data, click [ID:nN25291870)



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