Announcement Date Status Transaction Transaction Value
($ millions)
Jun 17, 2008 Closed Advised Rockefeller Financial Services on the sale of a 37% stake to Société Générale's private banking group NA
Jun 3, 2008 Closed Advised InterActiveCorp/IAC on the sale of its Entertainment Publications (EPI) subsidiary to MH Equity $135
Jun 3, 2008 Pending Advised Creditex Group Inc. on its sale to IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) $625
May 29, 2008 Pending Advised Blackbaud, Inc. on its acquisition of Kintera, Inc. $33
May 21, 2008 Pending Advised the Special Committee of Time Warner Cable on its separation from Time Warner Inc $42,130
May 13, 2008 Pending Advised Electronic Data Systems on its sale to Hewlett-Packard $13,000
Mar 31, 2008 Pending Advised De Ruiter Seeds Group BV on its sale to Monsanto Company $863
Mar 5, 2008 Pending Advised Smithfield Foods on the sale of Smithfield Beef Group to JBS $565
Jan 28, 2008 Closed Advised RGM Advisors on its sale of a minority interest to TA Associates NA
Jan 17, 2008 Closed Advised Performance Food Group on its sale to an affiliate of The Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management $1,253
Jan 15, 2008 Closed Advised Bright Horizons Family Solutions on its sale to an affiliate of Bain Capital $1,330
Jan 9, 2008 Closed Advised Silver Lake on the sale of a minority interest to CalPERS NA
Dec 19, 2007 Closed Advised Gerson Lehrman Group on its sale of an approximately 25% equity stake to Silver Lake Partners and associated debt refinancing NA
Dec 12, 2007 Closed Advised Publishing Group of America Inc. on its sale to Bain Capital Ventures and Shamrock Capital Growth Fund II, LP NA
Dec 3, 2007 Closed Advised Cengage Learning, formerly Thomson Learning, on its acquisition of Houghton Mifflin College Division $750
Nov 29, 2007 Closed Advised E*Trade Financial Corp. on the $2.5 billion investment led by Citadel Investment Group $800
Nov 19, 2007 Closed Advised EdgeTrade, Inc. on its sale to Knight Capital Group, Inc. $60
Nov 15, 2007 Pending Advised Gedeon Richter Plc on its acquisition of OAO Akrihin $125
Nov 15, 2007 Pending Advised Gedeon Ricther Plc on its acquisition of Polpharma S.A. $1,306
Oct 30, 2007 Closed Advised Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. on its acquisition of E-Z-EM, Inc $186
Oct 22, 2007 Closed Advised Nuance Communications, Inc. on its acquisition of Viecore, Inc. NA
Oct 1, 2007 Closed Advised AT&T, Inc. on its acquisition of Interwise, Inc. $121
Sep 20, 2007 Closed Advised Network General Corporation on its sale to NetScout Systems, Inc. $205
Sep 10, 2007 Closed Advised IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. on its acquisition of Chatham Energy Partners, LLC NA
Sep 4, 2007 Closed Advised BlueLithium on its sale to Yahoo! Inc. $300
Aug 1, 2007 Closed Advised Tiffany & Co. on its sale of Little Switzerland to NXP Corporation NA
Aug 1, 2007 Closed Advised Blackbaud, Inc. on its acquisition of eTapestry $25
Jul 25, 2007 Closed Advised VT Group plc on its joint venture with BAE Systems plc to form BVT Surface Fleet Limited $1,600
Jul 17, 2007 Closed Advised Metromedia International Group, Inc. on its sale to Salford Georgia and Compound Capital Limited $576
Jul 9, 2007 Closed Advised Sequa Corporation on its sale to The Carlyle Group $2,662
Jul 5, 2007 Closed Advised ARINC Incorporated on its sale to The Carlyle Group NA
Jul 2, 2007 Closed Advised North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc. on its sale to Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. $345
Jun 29, 2007 Closed Advised TI Automotive on its sale to Oaktree Capital Management LLC and Duquesne Capital Management LLC NA
Jun 21, 2007 Closed Advised Ziff Davis Media Inc. on the sale of its Enterprise Group assets to Insight Venture Partners LLC $150
May 29, 2007 Closed Advised LCC International, Inc. on its acquisition of Wireless Facilities, Inc.'s US engineering business $39
May 14, 2007 Closed Advised eCollege.com on its sale of Datamark, its enrollment marketing subsidiary, to an investor group $41
May 14, 2007 Closed Advised eCollege.com on its sale to Pearson Education, Inc. $504
May 11, 2007 Closed Advised Apax Partners on its acquisition of Thomson Learning, the higher education, careers and library reference assets of The Thomson Corporation $7,750
Apr 30, 2007 Closed Advised International Securities Exchange (ISE) on its sale to Eurex $2,821
Apr 24, 2007 Closed Advised Information Services Group, Inc. on its acquisition of TPI $280
Apr 20, 2007 Closed Advised Interpool, Inc. on its sale to Fortress Investment Group $980
Apr 2, 2007 Closed Advised First Data Corp. on its sale to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts $27,032
Mar 28, 2007 Closed Advised Cerberus on its acquisition of Tower Automotive Inc. out of Chapter 11 $1,000
Mar 13, 2007 Closed Advised The Copley Press, Inc. on its sale of 9 publications in Ohio and Illinois to GateHouse Media, Inc. $380
Feb 22, 2007 Closed Advised Morningstar on its acquisition of Standard & Poor's mutual fund data business $55
Feb 11, 2007 Closed Advised Novelis on its sale to Hindalco $5,767
Feb 8, 2007 Closed Advised TI Automotive Ltd on the sale of its Industrials Group business NA
Feb 7, 2007 Pending Advised Aquila on its sale to Great Plains Energy $2,767
Jan 16, 2007 Closed Advised Blackbaud on its acquisitions of Target Software and Target Analysis Group $62
Jan 15, 2007 Closed Advised Smiths Group PLC on the sale of its Aerospace division to GE $4,812
Jan 4, 2007 Closed Advised IronPort Systems on its sale to Cisco Systems $830
Dec 29, 2006 Closed Advised Dow Jones on the divestiture of its 23.5% stake in Economia to majority owner Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt GmbH $20
Dec 18, 2006 Closed Advised PSP Investments on its purchase of 36% equity stake in Telesat Canada $2,842
Dec 17, 2006 Closed Advised Realogy on its LBO by Apollo Management $6,962
Dec 15, 2006 Closed Advised The Copley Press, Inc. on the sale of its Los Angeles newspaper operations to MediaNews Group, Inc. NA
Nov 2, 2006 Closed Advised private equity firm Silver Lake Partners on its sale of Instinet to Nomura Holdings NA
Nov 1, 2006 Closed Advised CVS on its all-stock acquisition of Caremark $25,092
Oct 18, 2006 Closed Advised Dow Jones on the acquisition of the remaining 50% stake in Factiva $160
Oct 17, 2006 Closed Advised Level 3 on its acquisition of Broadwing Corp $1,214
Sep 25, 2006 Closed Advised UCB S.A. on the acquisition of Schwarz Pharma AG $5,600
Sep 18, 2006 Closed Advised Commonwealth Telephone in its sale to Citizens Communications $1,109
Sep 14, 2006 Closed Advised IntercontinentalExchange in its acquisition of the New York Board of Trade $1,067
Sep 12, 2006 Closed Advised AT&T in its acquisition of Usinternetworking $300
Aug 31, 2006 Closed Advised Monster Worldwide in the sale of its recruitment advertisement agency TMP Worldwide $45
Aug 4, 2006 Closed Advised Orbital Data in its sale to Citrix Systems $50
Jul 27, 2006 Closed Advised Time Warner Telecom in its acquisition of Xspedius Communications $532
Jul 18, 2006 Closed Advised Winternals Software in its sale to Microsoft NA
Jul 13, 2006 Closed Advised CVS in its acquisition of MinuteClinic NA
Jun 30, 2006 Closed Advised Cendant in the sale of Travelport to The Blackstone Group, as part of Cendant's breakup into three companies $4,300
Jun 30, 2006 Closed Advised Bank of New York in the sale of an interest in its agency execution businesses $441
Jun 14, 2006 Closed Advised Credit Suisse in the sale of its Winterthur insurance unit to AXA $9,989
May 5, 2006 Closed Advised Mpower in its sale to Telepacific Communications $194
Apr 3, 2006 Closed Advised General Motors in its sale of a 51% interest in GMAC $7,853
Mar 28, 2006 Closed Advised TA Associates in its acquisition of eSecLending NA
Mar 15, 2006 Closed Advised Hearst in its acquisition of a 20% stake in Fitch $592
Mar 5, 2006 Closed Advised AT&T in its acquisition of BellSouth $89,432
Feb 13, 2006 Closed Advised Swiss Re in its divestiture of Fox-Pitt Kelton NA
Feb 8, 2006 Closed Advised Nuance in its acquisition of Dictaphone $357
Jan 24, 2006 Closed Advised Hotspot in its all-cash sale to Knight Capital $78
Jan 22, 2006 Closed Advised CVS in its acquisition of selected assets of Albertsons $17,368
Jan 16, 2006 Closed Advised VNU in its sale to a private equity consortium $11,287
Jan 13, 2006 Closed Advised Tyco in its split-up into three publicly traded companies NA
Nov 30, 2005 Closed Advised CSK in its acquisition of Murrays $171
Nov 18, 2005 Closed Advised Scientific-Atlanta in its sale to Cisco Systems $5,324
Nov 18, 2005 Closed Advised Swiss Re in its acquisition of GE's Insurance Solutions unit $7,753
Nov 16, 2005 Closed Advised Intellisync in its sale to Nokia $491
Oct 31, 2005 Closed Advised Level 3 in its acquisition of WilTel Communications Group from Leucadia National $681
Oct 25, 2005 Closed Advised Infocrossing in its acquisition of (i)Structure from Level 3 Communications $85
Oct 24, 2005 Closed Advised Cendant in its spin-off of Wyndham, as part of Cendant's breakup into three companies $6,502
Oct 24, 2005 Closed Advised Cendant in its spin-off of Realogy, as part of Cendant's breakup into three companies $6,324
Oct 24, 2005 Closed Advised Nextel Partners in its sale to Sprint Nextel Corp $7,545
Oct 3, 2005 Closed Advised NTL in its cross-border acquisition of Telewest Global $8,765
Sep 29, 2005 Closed Advised E*TRADE in its acquisition of BrownCo from JPMorgan Chase $1,600
Sep 21, 2005 Closed Advised Aquila in the sale of its Natural Gas Distribution businesses in Michigan and Minnesota to WPS Resources $558
Sep 21, 2005 Closed Advised Aquila in the sale of its Natural Gas Distribution businesses in Missouri to Empire District Electric $84
Sep 21, 2005 Closed Advised Aquila in the sale of its Electric Operations assets to Mid-Kansas Electric Co. $255
Aug 11, 2005 Closed Advised Flarion in its sale to QUALCOMM $805
Aug 7, 2005 Closed Advised E*TRADE in its acquisition of HARRISdirect $700
Jul 13, 2005 Closed Advised Dice in its sale to an investor group N/A
Jul 10, 2005 Closed Advised US Unwired in its sale to Sprint $1,325
Jun 2, 2005 Closed Advised Storage Technology in its all-cash sale to Sun Microsystems $3,140
May 9, 2005 Closed Advised ScanSoft in its stock-cash merger with Nuance Communications $201
May 4, 2005 Closed Advised SpectraSite in its stock-swap merger with American Tower $3,910
Mar 7, 2005 Closed Advised JD Power & Associates in its sale to McGraw-Hill N/A
Mar 7, 2005 Closed Advised Insight Communications in its sale to a management-led consortium $3,275
Feb 18, 2005 Closed Advised ZAO PeterStar in its sale to an investor group $215
Jan 31, 2005 Closed Advised SBC in its acquisition of AT&T $21,700