Aaron J. Meyers

Solventum in its pending $4.1 billion sale of its purification and filtration business to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Apogee Enterprises in its $240 million acquisition of UW Solutions, a Heartwood Partners portfolio company.

ABB in its cable tray joint venture with Niedax and its acquisition of Siemens’ low voltage NEMA motor business.

Vale in several transactions, including its $26 billion strategic partnership with Manara Minerals, a joint venture between Ma’aden and PIF, pursuant to which Manara Minerals invested in Vale’s energy transition metals business, and the $2.5 billion sale of its fertilizer business to The Mosaic Company.

3M in many transactions, including its $6.7 billion acquisition of Acelity, $2 billion acquisition of Scott Safety, and $1 billion acquisition of M*Modal’s technology business, and the $900 million sale of its Communication Markets Division to Corning, the $650 million sale of its drug delivery business to Altaris Capital Partners, the $230 million sale of its gas and flame detection business to Teledyne, and the sale of its dental local anesthetics business to Pierrel.

Alphabet and Google in numerous transactions, including Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, $1.1 billion agreement with HTC relating to the smartphone design business, its acquisitions of Waze, Raxium and bebop, its investment in Univision, its $2.9 billion sale of Motorola Mobility’s mobile devices business to Lenovo, and Alphabet’s sale of minority stakes in Waymo and Verily Life Sciences.

Warburg Pincus in various transactions, including:

• its sale of Hygiena, a Warburg portfolio company, to EW Group
• its acquisitions of TRC Companies, FlexXray, G.A. Foods, Wencor Group, Electronic Funds Source, Crossmark, and Endurance International Group; and
• the acquisition by its portfolio company, Endurance International Group, of Intuit’s website business.

ITOCHU International in its acquisition of the fence design and manufacturing business of Midwest Tube Mills.

Pacific Woodtech, a subsidiary of ITOCHU, in its acquisition of Louisiana-Pacific’s engineered wood products business.

Eni in its strategic agreement with Falck Renewables for the joint development of renewable energy projects.

Langan in its sale of a minority interest to TowerBrook Capital Partners.

OpenText in its $1.62 billion acquisition of Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division and in its tenders offers to acquire Zix Corporation and Guidance Software.

OCI in its proposed $8 billion combination with CF Industries.

Western Digital in its $19 billion acquisition of SanDisk.

Clariant in its proposed all-stock merger-of-equals with Huntsman.

Asahi Kasei in its $2.2 billion acquisition of the energy storage business of Polypore International and $1 billion sale of Polypore’s separations media to 3M.

Sony in its acquisition of Gaikai Inc.

Gameloft in its acquisition of FreshPlanet.

TRAC Intermodal, a portfolio company of Fortress Investment Group, in the sale of its domestic chassis fleet to Direct ChassisLink Inc.

Groupe Acticall in its $830 million acquisition of SITEL Worldwide.

TPG in its acquisition and subsequent $2 billion sale to Rite Aid of Envision Pharmaceutical.

Family Dollar Stores in its sale to Dollar Tree for a combination of cash and stock worth $9.3 billion and the successful rejection of Dollar General’s hostile tender offer and Elliott Management’s threatened proxy contest.

Coastal Energy Co. in its C$2.3 billion sale to Compañia Española de Petroleos (CEPSA).

Newcastle Investment Corp. in its acquisition of Local Media Group from News Corp., as part of the prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring of GateHouse Media Inc.

Biomet in its acquisition of the global trauma business of DePuy Orthopaedics.

SMSC in its sale to Microchip Technologies and its earlier acquisition of BridgeCo.

Grupo Bimbo in its acquisition of Sara Lee Corp.’s North American Fresh Bakery.

Alpha Natural Resources in its $8.5 billion merger with Massey Energy Co.

Various financial advisors in M&A transactions, including Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and the Raine Group.