Akin Bay professionals have collectively advised on over $6.5 billion in transactions. Below is a list of transactions completed by Akin Bay professionals prior to working at Akin Bay.
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Company Name: Office Depot, Inc.
Business Description: One of the world’s largest public office supply retailer/distributor
Transaction Type: Buy-side financial advisory
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: Purchase of Eastman Office Products Corp for $220.0 million and advisory on allocation of $275.0 million LYON’s |
| Eastman Office Products Corp. |
Company Name: Eastman Office Products Corp.
Business Description: Division of Australian holding company Pacific Dunlop LTD.
Transaction Type: Sell-side financial advisory
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: Advised on the sale of Eastman Office Products Corp. for $160.0 million to a US private equity firm |
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Company Name: Architectural Digest
Business Description: The leading architecture and interior design magazine, division of Knapp Publications
Transaction Type: Sell-side financial advisory on divestiture of division
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: Advised Knapp Publications on their sale of Architectural Digest to Condé Nast for $175.0 million |
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Company Name: GNB Technologies
Business Description: Battery manufacture and division of Pacific Dunlop LTD.
Transaction Type: Financial advisory of strategic options and valuation analysis
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: NA |
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Company Name: Ansell Limited
Business Description: Specialized healthcare products and division of Pacific Dunlop LTD.
Transaction Type: Financial advisory
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: NA |
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Company Name: TNT N.V.
Business Description: One of the world’s largest document and package carriers
Transaction Type: Financial advisory and strategic review
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: NA |
| WMC Ltd. |
Company Name: Western Mining Corp. Ltd.
Business Description: One of the world’s largest mining & natural resource companies.
Transaction Type: Provided divestiture and financing advisory services for their oil & gas division, Greenhill Petroleum
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: NA |
| WMC Ltd. |
Company Name: Western Mining Corp. Ltd.
Business Description: One of the world’s largest mining & natural resource companies.
Transaction Type: Acquisition and strategic advisory
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: NA |
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Company Name: Goodman Fielder Limited
Business Description: One of Australia’s largest food and baked goods companies
Transaction Type: Acquisition and strategic advisory and consulting
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: NA |
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Company Name: CSR Limited
Business Description: One of Australia’s largest construction companies
Transaction Type: Strategic review and financial analysis and consulting
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: NA |
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Company Name: Hanson PLC
Business Description: England/Australian construction products and materials conglomerate
Transaction Type: Strategic review and financial analysis and consulting
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: NA |
| Institutional Investors Trust |
Company Name: Institutional Investors Trust
Business Description: Real Estate Investment Trust
Transaction Type: Public offering of debt
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $20.0 million senior subordinated debentures due 2003 |
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Company Name: Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc.
Business Description: Public utility
Transaction Type: Public offering of stocks and notes
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $1.0 billion aggregate offerings of common stock, preferred stock, medium term notes and mortgage bonds |
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Company Name: North American Philips Corp.
Business Description: Diversified electronics manufacturer
Transaction Type: Public cash tender offer
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: Acquisition of all of the capital stock of The Magnavox Company |
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Company Name: Kellogg Company
Business Description: Cereal and packaged food producer
Transaction Type: Public offering
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $75.0 million of ten year notes |
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Company Name: The Southern Railway Company
Business Description: Integrated railroad operator
Transaction Type: Private placement
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $20.9 million of secured notes of Citico Realty Company (financing of Microwave Transmission Network) |
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Company Name: Tesoro Corp.
Business Description: Integrated petroleum producer and refiner
Transaction Type: Syndicated corporate bank loan
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $225.0 million multi-currency revolving and term loans |
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Company Name: Peabody Energy
Business Description: Coal producer
Transaction Type: Negotiated private merger
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $A96.0 million acquisition by Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. of all of the capital stock from Kennecott Copper Inc. |
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Company Name: ConocoPhillips Company
Business Description: Integrated petroleum producer and refiner
Transaction Type: Underwritten registered public offerings
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $180.0 million common stock offering and $250.0 million of 30 year debentures |
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Company Name: Total Petroleum (NA) Ltd.
Business Description: Petroleum refiner and distributor
Transaction Type: Simultaneous underwritten public offering of common stock in the US and Canada
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: C$215.0 million common stock offering |
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Company Name: Hydro Quebec Corp.
Business Description: Electricity generating public utility
Transaction Type: Underwritten public offerings in the United States
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $500.0 million of thirty year debentures through underwriters led by Salomon Brothers in three separate offerings |
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Company Name: Firemen’s Fund Insurance Company
Business Description: Diversified insurance company
Transaction Type: Private placement leveraged lease financing of computer equipment
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $34.0 million of secured notes placed with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as Trustee |
| Cementos Anahuac S.A. |
Company Name: Cementos Anahuac S.A.
Business Description: Largest cement producer in Mexico
Transaction Type: Syndicated eurodollar loan
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $25.0 million five-year term loan |
| Texas International Airlines, Inc. |
Company Name: Texas International Airlines, Inc.
Business Description: Passenger air carrier
Transaction Type: Underwritten registered public offering
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $100.0 million thirty year debentures |
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Company Name: Banco de La Nacion, Peru
Business Description: Government central bank
Transaction Type: Syndicated eurodollar bank loan
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $100.0 million seven year term loan |
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Company Name: A.P. Moller-Maersk Group
Business Description: International ocean cargo freight carrier
Transaction Type: Leveraged lease financing of five rolling cargo handling Cranes for Port Newark, NJ facility
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $110.0 million secured term loan |
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Company Name: International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.
Business Description: Conglomerate holding company
Transaction Type: Negotiated acquisition
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: Purchase of all of the capital stock of Levitt Housing Corporation |
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Company Name: Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
Business Description: Diversified chemical manufacturer
Transaction Type: Underwritten registered public offerings
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $100.0 million of 30 year bonds (first public offering in US) and further $200 million of 30 year bonds |
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Company Name: Eastern Airlines, Inc.
Business Description: Passenger Air Carrier
Transaction Type: Underwritten registered public offering
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $50.0 million of convertible subordinated debentures |
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Company Name: Eastern Airlines, Inc.
Business Description: Passenger air carrier
Transaction Type: Underwritten call of publicly held convertible debt
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: Redemption of $50.0 million of convertible subordinated debentures |
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Company Name: Eastern Airlines, Inc.
Business Description: Passenger air carrier.
Transaction Type: Underwritten registered public offering
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $25.0 million of convertible preferred stock |
| Companhia Maritima de Netumar Ltda. |
Company Name: Companhia Maritima de Netumar Ltda.
Business Description: Brazil based International ocean cargo freight carrier
Transaction Type: Syndicated international Eurodollar loan
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $100.0 million |
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Company Name: Banco de La Nacion (Argentina)
Business Description: Central Bank
Transaction Type: Syndicated international bank loan by a consortium of Japanese banks
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $100.0 million eurodollar term loan |
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Company Name: Mercedes-Benz do Basil, Ltda.
Business Description: Brazilian subsidiary of worldwide automotive manufacturer, manufacturing commercial trucks in Brazil
Transaction Type: Financial Advisory
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $35.0 million multi-currency revolving credit and term loan agreement |
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Company Name: American Airlines Inc.
Business Description: Passenger Air Carrier
Transaction Type: Leveraged lease financing of the acquisition of six Boeing 737-300 Aircraft
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $275.0 million of secured notes and related equipment trust certificates |
| ITAIPU |
Company Name: ITAIPU (an entity created by treaty between The Federative Republic of Brazil and The Republic of Paraguay)
Business Description: Treaty Entity
Transaction Type: Project financing credit facilities for construction of Dam and Hydro-Electric Generating Facilities on the Parana River, Brazil
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $1.3 Billion aggregate Eurodollar syndicated project financing facilities |
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Company Name: Wacoal Corp.
Business Description: Japanese manufacturer of women’s intimate apparel
Transaction Type: Acquisition of 49% of the capital stock of, and formation of a joint venture with, The Olga Company, a California- based manufacturer of women’s intimate apparel.
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $80.0 million |
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Company Name: Esso Production Malaysia Berhad
Business Description: Subsidiary of Exxon Corporation
Transaction Type: Project financing of development offshore Malaysia of petroleum and natural gas fields under production sharing contract with Government of Malaysia
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $250.0 million syndicated Eurodollar project financing |
Her Majesty the Queen in Right of New Zealand  |
Company Name: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of New Zealand
Business Description: Sovereign Government of New Zealand
Transaction Type: Unsecured Term Loan
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $US15.0 million US Dollar Term Loan from J. P. Morgan Interfunding Corp, a subsidiary of J. P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated |
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Company Name: Simon Property Group, Inc.
Business Description: Privately Held Real Estate Investment Trust
Transaction Type: Acquisition of five major regional shopping centers from Monument Properties Trust
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $280.0 million |
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Company Name: Simon Property Group, Inc.
Business Description: Privately Held Real Estate Investment Trust
Transaction Type: 10-year unsecured term loan to, and acquisition of option to purchase together with management contract for, The General Motors Building, New York, from General Motors Corporation
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $500.0 million |
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Company Name: Simon Property Group, Inc.
Business Description: Privately Held Real Estate Investment Trust
Transaction Type: Private placements to existing institutional shareholders of newly issued common stock
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: Three offerings aggregating $400.0 million |
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Company Name: Simon Property Group, Inc.
Business Description: Privately Held Real Estate Investment Trust
Transaction Type: Purchase of portfolio of five major regional shopping centers from Homart Development Company, a subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck & Company
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $240.0 million |
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Company Name: Simon Property Group, Inc.
Business Description: Privately Held Real Estate Investment Trust
Transaction Type: Acquisition of South Shore Plaza, Braintree, MA.
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $160.0 million negotiated purchase from Safeco Insurance Company subsidiary |
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Company Name: Simon Property Group, Inc.
Business Description: Privately Held Real Estate Investment Trust
Transaction Type: Offerings in Eurodollar market of unsecured medium term notes
Private/ Public: Public
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $250.0 million in aggregate |
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Company Name: Simon Property Group, Inc.
Business Description: Privately Held Real Estate Investment Trust
Transaction Type: Formation of investment partnership with, and loan to, a Gerald D. Hines. Interests to construct a 50-story office building leased to The Southeast Bank
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $145.0 million |
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Company Name: United States Steel Corp.
Business Description: Integrated steel manufacturer
Transaction Type: Underwritten public offering of municipal development bonds
Private/ Public: Private
Financing/ M&A Sale Amount: $250.0 million of industrial development bonds |
