Global M&A deal of the year 2013: Acquisition of Virgin Media

Liberty Global’s $24.1 billion acquisition of Virgin Media
Size	$24.1 billion
Date	June 2013
Lead adviser Liberty Global	Lion Tree Advisors
Financial adviser to Liberty Global and sole global coordinator debt financing	Credit Suisse
Adviser Virgin Media	Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan
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Last year was the most exciting that the M&A markets have seen for some time. A string of announcements early on in 2013 from such companies as Heinz, Dell and Liberty Global heralded a much-needed surge in confidence that was more than rewarded with the news towards the end of the year of Verizon’s record-breaking $130 billion buyout of its wireless business from Vodafone.