UNITED KINGDOM Target: Pride International Inc Counsel: Baker Botts; Shearman & Sterling;
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Counsel for financial adviser The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.:
Sullivan & Cromwell
Seller: Pride shareholders
Bidder: Ensco plc
Counsel: Baker & McKenzie; Gardere Wynne Sewell;
Miller & Chevalier; Richards, Layton and Finger
Counsel for financial advisers Deutsche Bank AG: Fried,
Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Value: $8.7 billion
Target: Reliance Industries Limited ( 23 oil and gas production
sharing contracts) (30% stake)*
SPAIN Target: Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, d.b.a. La Caixa (banking business)*
Counsel: Uría Menéndez
Bidder: Criteria CaixaCorp, S.A.
Counsel: Clifford Chance
Value: $13 billion
Target: Compañia Española de Petroleos S.A. ( 52.94% stake)*
Seller: Total S.A.
ITALY Target: Wind Telecom S.p.A. (formerly Weather Investments S.p.A.)
Counsel: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Ibrachy
Law Firm
Sellers: Special purpose vehicles set up by Apax Partners
[Editor’s note: Apax is the majority owner of ALM Media, LLC,
Focus Europe’s parent company]; Madison Dearborn Partners,
LLC; TA Associates, Inc.; Weather Investments II S.a.r.l. and
Wind Telecom S.p.A. minority shareholders
Counsel for Apax, Madison Dearborn, and TA: Bonelli Erede
Pappalardo; Kirkland & Ellis
Counsel for Weather Investments and Wind Telecom: Cleary
Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Bidder: VimpelCom Ltd
Counsel: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Gianni, Origoni,
Grippo & Partners; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Counsel for financial advisers Citigroup Global Markets Limited:
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Value: $7 billion
