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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Express Scripts Proposes Takeover of Caremark Rx
Skadden is representing Express Scripts, Inc. in its proposed hostile takeover of Caremark Rx, Inc. for approximately $26 billion to create the largest pharmacy benefit management company in the U.S.

12-31-2006

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Westfield Sells Stake in Merry Hill, Forms Joint Venture with QIC
Skadden, Arps is representing Westfield Group, a developer and manager of real estate and shopping malls, (as co-counsel) with the tax aspects of its US$1 billion sale of a 50% stake in the Merry Hill shopping center in the United Kingdom and the establishment of a joint venture with Queensland Investment Corporation to manage the shopping center. Both Westfield Group and Queensland Investment are based in Australia.

12-31-2006

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

HM Rivergroup to Acquire Houghton Mifflin
Skadden is representing Houghton Mifflin Company (as co-counsel), a publisher of educational textbooks, in its US$5 billion acquisition by HM Rivergroup PLC, a newly-formed public holding company in Ireland, from private equity firms Bain Capital, LLC, The Blackstone Group L.P. and Thomas H. Lee Partners L.P.

12-31-2006

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Mirant Sells Mirant Asia-Pacific Limited
Skadden, Arps is representing Mirant Corporation, a marketer of wholesale electricity and natural gas and an operator of power plants, in its US$3.4 billion sale of Mirant Asia-Pacific Limited (the largest independent power producer in the Philippines) to The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated (Japan) and Marubeni Corporation (Japan), a general trading company and conglomerate.

12-31-2006

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

M&F Worldwide Acquires John H. Harland Company
Skadden, Arps is representing M&F Worldwide Corp., a producer of licorice products and a provider of financial check printing services and direct marketing services, in its $1.7 billion acquisition of John H. Harland Company, a provider of financial check printing services and computer software for businesses.

12-31-2006

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Wisconsin Energy Sells Point Beach Nuclear Plant
Skadden, Arps is representing Wisconsin Energy Corporation and its subsidiary Wisconsin Electric Power Company in the $1 billion sale of its Point Beach Nuclear Plant to FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group, Inc. (an independent power producer and a telecommunications company).

12-31-2006

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Nomura Holdings Buys Stake in Fortress Investment Group
Skadden, Arps is representing Fortress Investment Group LLC, a private equity firm, in its US$888 million sale of a 15% stake to Nomura Holdings, Inc. (Japan), the holding company for brokerage firm Nomura Securities International, Inc.

12-31-2006

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