Sagent Advisors

Selected Major Transactions

At Sagent Advisors, our senior bankers have led the M&A teams at a number of major investment banks, have deep relationships throughout the corporate world, and are particularly skilled at navigating issues facing senior management and directors in transformative mergers and acquisitions.

Our sharp focus on advisory services with no other agendas, together with our philosophy of having client teams of manageable size, ensures decision makers that they can deal with us in an atmosphere of complete confidence and trust.

The professional track record of our bankers includes some of the largest and most complex M&A transactions in history. The list below illustrates this strong M&A heritage which includes major mergers, hostile acquisitions, takeover defenses and spin-offs.

Select Major M&A Transactions ($ in MM)
American FreightwaysSale to FedEx $1,200
AMPDefensive response to Allied Signal / Sale to Tyco International $10,931
Avnet Inc.Acquisition of VEBA Electronics from VEBA AG $2,350
Centennial CellularSale to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe $1,647
Century CommunicationsSale to Adelphia Communications $5,011
CIT GroupSale to Tyco International $9,341
CMS EnergyAcquisition of Panhandle Eastern from Duke Energy $2,200
Compaq ComputerSale to Hewlett-Packard $23,519
El PasoAcquisition of Tenneco Energy Resources $3,879
Ing C Olivetti & Co SpAAcquisition of Telecom Italia SpA $34,758
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & CoAcquisition of Amphenol $1,390
NY Public Asset FundPrimary Financial Advisor to NYPAF in the merger of WellPoint and WellChoice $6,600
Qwest CommunicationsAcquisition of US WEST $56,306
Rite AidAcquisition of Thrifty Payless Holdings $2,368
Roadway Corp.Sale to Yellow $1,300
Rockwell InternationalSpin-off of Rockwell Collins $4,500
Sealed Air CorporationAcquisition of WR Grace's packaging division $4,851
Tele-Communications (TCI)Sale to AT&T $69,897
The Genlyte Group Inc.Sale to Philips Holding USA Inc. $2,700
Trident NGLSale to Natural Gas Clearinghouse $1,132
USA Waste ServicesAcquisition of Waste Management $19,971
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