John Evangelakos

Intellectual Property and Technology-Related Transactions

• Eastman Kodak in the $527 million sale of its digital imaging patent portfolio to a consortium organized by Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corporation
• Intercontinental Exchange in its $8.2 billion acquisition of NYSE Euronext, its acquisitions of the New York Board of Trade for $1.7 billion and Creditex for $625 million, its $9.9 billion attempted acquisition of the Chicago Board of Trade, its $5.2 billion acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation and its acquisition of Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations and Credit Market Analysis businesses
• Axel Springer in its acquisition of Business Insider

• Archipelago Holdings in its $10.5 billion merger with The New York Stock Exchange to form NYSE Group; in its $90 million acquisition of PCX Holdings, the parent company of the Pacific Exchange; in its joint venture with the Pacific Exchange, creating the first completely open electronic stock market in the United States; and in numerous rounds of financing, including the $125 million investment by General Atlantic and its merger with REDIBook
• Microsoft, as the organizer of a consortium of technology companies, in its patent purchase agreement with Novell, pursuant to which the consortium acquired approximately 882 patent and patent applications from Novell for $450 million, at the same time as Novell was taken private by Attachmate Corporation
• Barclays in the $15.2 billion sale of Barclays Global Investors (BGI) to BlackRock
• NXP B.V. in a strategic alliance with Virage Logic Corporation, pursuant to which NXP transferred employees and assets associated with selected advanced CMOS libraries, IP blocks and System-on-Chip architecture, and which included a long-term IP licensing and development agreement
• Citadel Investment Group in its investment in Direct Edge ECN
• LCH.Clearnet in its acquisition of International Derivatives Clearing Group from the NASDAQ OMX Group and certain other investors
• Citigroup in its role as financial adviser to NYSE Group in connection with its $10.2 billion merger of equals with Euronext
• Cablevision in connection with the $750 million sale by one of its affiliates of PCS licenses to Verizon Wireless
• Reuters Group  in its $239 million acquisition of Multex.com

Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions

• AkzoNobel in the $1.05 billion sale of its North American decorative paints business to PPG Industries
• BP in its $7 billion sale of upstream assets in the United States, Canada and Egypt to Apache Corporation
• Anheuser-Busch InBev in the $2.3 billion sale of Busch Entertainment to Blackstone; Interbrew in its $11.4 billion acquisition of AmBev to form InBev and in the related $1.2 billion unwinding of Interbrew’s joint venture with Fomento Económico Mexicano (FEMSA) in Mexico and the United States
• Independent Directors of Tower Group in the sale of Tower to ACP Re, an affiliate of AmTrust Financial Services
• Independent Directors of CastlePoint Holdings in its $490 million acquisition by Tower Group
• Independent Directors of Sovereign Bancorp in its $1.9 billion acquisition by Banco Santander
• The Frist family in the $31.6 billion LBO of HCA
• Whitehall Capital in the $3.8 billion LBO of Kerzner International
• Independent Directors of Erie Indemnity Company in the going-private acquisition of Erie Family Life Insurance Company
• Vornado in the $145 million sale to the Yucaipa Companies of a minority interest in AmeriCold Realty Trust
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Tanker Investments in connection with Tanker Investments’ merger with Teekay Tankers
• Goldman Sachs in numerous acquisitions and investments, including The Ayco Company, Epoch Partners and BTIG LLC
• Philippine Long Distance Telephone in its defense against an unsolicited $925 million takeover bid from the Gokongwei Group
• Special Committee of Amtran in the proposed acquisition of Amtran by its controlling shareholder
• TI Group in its acquisitions of Walbro Corporation for $570 million and S&H Fabricating & Engineering for $350 million
• ASA Holdings in its $900 million sale to Delta Airlines
• Alumax in its $3.8 billion sale to Alcoa
• San Miguel Corporation in connection with the transfer of its Coca-Cola bottling subsidiary to Coca-Cola Amatil of Australia in exchange for a significant block of Amatil shares
• C&S/Sovran in its $4.3 billion merger into North Carolina National Bank (NCNB) to form Nationsbank
• Bass PLC in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Holiday Corp.