Marco E. Palmese

Mergers & Acquisitions

Decision Science Corporation, in its restructuring and venture capital financing by 930 Capital LLC. 

GSO, in connection with the $600 million disposition of its equity and leasehold contracts in Midland Cogeneration Venture to EQT and Fortistar.

Pacificor LLC, in connection with the restructuring of its debt and equity interests in Dura Automotive.

LS Power, in the $500 million disposition of its equity interest in the Zeeland, Michigan 946 MW gas-fired power plant to Consumers Energy.

Odyssey Investment Partners in its $200 million acquisition of NES Tanks.

TMP Worldwide in connection with various joint venture arrangements with print news publications.

Kelso in its $150 million acquisition of a film library.

Apollo in its $1.4 billion acquisition of International Paper Corporation's coated papers business.

Monster Worldwide, Inc. in its $25 million acquisition of PWP, LLC.

JH Partners in its acquisition of Frette S.p.A. for an undisclosed amount.

Xyratex Ltd in its $20 million cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of nStor Technologies, Inc.

Celanese AG, in the $3.1 billion (including debt) tender offer by a Blackstone Group entity for all outstanding ordinary shares of Celanese AG.

Orthofix International N.V. in its $150 million acquisition of Breg, Inc.

Credit Suisse First Boston (USA), Inc. in the $100 million acquisition, including earn-out, of KM Management LLC (d.b.a. Volaris Capital Partners).

Credit Suisse First Boston (USA), Inc., in the $2 billion disposition of its clearing business division, Pershing, to The Bank of New York Company, Inc.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and i-Deal LLC in the joint venture among Merrill Lynch; Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated; Salomon Brothers Holding Company; Microsoft Corporation and Thompson Financial Inc. to create i-Deal LLC, a web-based debt and equity syndication system.

Fuji America Holdings, Inc., in General Electric Capital Corporation's $5.3 billion tender offer for all outstanding shares of Heller Financial, Inc., a majority owned subsidiary of Fuji America Holdings, Inc.

UFJ Bank Limited, in the $2.6 billion disposition of its subsidiary, United California Bank, to BNP Paribas.

Motorola, Inc., in the $2 billion disposition of its Mexican mobile telephony business to Telefónica, S.A.

Capital Markets

Piaggio Finance S.A. in its 144A offering of EUR 150 million 10% Senior Notes due 2012.

Lottomatica S.p.A. in its consent solicitation for the modification of its EUR 360 million 4.8 per cent Notes due 2008 traded on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

ENEL S.p.A. in the EUR 1.0 billion 4.75 per cent bonds due 2004 and EUR 1.2 billion floating rate bonds due 2001.

Goldman Sachs International, in the EUR 40 million initial public offering of CHL, S.p.A. (Rule 144A offering in the U.S.).

Lehman Brothers International (Europe), in the EUR 90 million initial public offering of Coin, S.p.A. (Rule 144A offering in the U.S.).

Goldman Sachs International, in the EUR 850 million public offering of equity and convertible debt securities of Bance Popolare di Lodi, S.c.ar.l. (Rule 144A offering in the U.S.).

Merrill Lynch and Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, in the EUR 12 billion initial public offering of ENEL S.p.A. (Registered offering in the U.S.).