Deals Of The Year

Mergers & Acquisitions salutes the winners of its Breakthrough Deals of the Year Awards for 2005,presented by M&A and Investment Dealer’s Digest magazines M & A deal of the year Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group’s acquisition of UFJ Financial Holdings Award Winners: Mitsubishi Securities, Morgan Stanley, Nomura Securities, Lazard (Mitsubishi advisers); Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan (UFJ advisers) Investment banker of the year Joseph Perella, Former investment banking chairman of Morgan Stanley Investment bank of the year Greenhill & Co. Mid-market bank of the year Jefferies & Co. Top capital markets deals Energy Duke Energy’s acquisition of Cinergy Award Winners: Lazard, UBS (Duke Energy); Merrill Lynch (Cinergy) Financial Institutions Citigroup/Legg Mason asset swap and distribution agreement Award Winners: Citigroup (Citigroup); Goldman Sachs (Legg Mason) Health Care Gilead Sciences/Royalty Pharma’s purchase of Emory Universitys HIV drug royalty rights Award Winners: Lazard (Gilead/Royalty Pharma); Citigroup (Emory) Media/Entertainment $475 million initial capitalization of Legendary Pictures Award Winners: Perseus Group Real Estate KKR, Bain Capital, and Vornado Realty Trust acquisition of Toys “R” Us Award Winners: Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley (buyout group); CSFB, Duff & Phelps (Toys “R” Us) Retailing Texas Pacific Group/Warburg Pincus buyout of Neiman Marcus Award Winners: CSFB (buyout group); Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan (Neiman Marcus); CSFB, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs (financing) Technology Verizon acquisition of MCI Award Winners: Bear Stearns (Verizon); Greenhill, JPMorgan, and Lazard (MCI) (c) 2006 Mergers and Acquisitions Journal and SourceMedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.majournal.com http://www.sourcemedia.com