Therma -Wave, in its pending acquisition by KLA in a cash tender offer;

• Oracle Systems Corporation, in its acquisition of SPL WorldGroup Holdings, LLC, an enterprise software company which targets major utilities;
• Glenborough Realty Trust , in its acquisition by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.9 billion;
• Mercury Interactive , in its $4.5 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard; the largest computer software transaction in 2006 ( Mergerstat January 2007 );
• Legacy Estate Group , in its $97 million sale to Kendall-Jackson through a bankruptcy auction;
• 724 Solutions , in its going private transaction pursuant to a Canadian plan of arrangement;
• Del Monte Foods , in its $580 million acquisition of the Milk-Bone brand and other assets from Kraft;
• Inamed , in its $3.4 billion business combination with Allergan, and its prior proposed merger with Medicis;
• American Pharmaceutical Partners , in its $4.1 billion acquisition of its majority shareholder, American BioSciences;
• Access, of Japan, in its $350 million acquisition of PalmSource;
• Johnson Electric Holdings Limited , a Hong Kong stock exchange listed company, in its $75 million acquisition of Parlex;
• MarketWatch , in its $520 million acquisition by Dow Jones;
• Atrix Laboratories , in its $850 million acquisition by QLT of Canada;
• Verio , in the $6 billion tender offer by NTT for the shares it did not already own and Verio’s concurrent tender offer for over $1 billion of debt securities;
• Hitachi, Ltd. , in its $2.0 billion acquisition of IBM’s hard disk drive business, with more than 20,000 employees in eight countries;
• The special committee of Kenetech , in the company’s $35 million management buyout;
• Cheap Tickets , in its $400 million acquisition by Cendant;
• Objective Systems Integrators , in its $600 million cash tender offer acquisition by Agilent Technologies;
• Shidax Corporation of Japan, in its $160 million sale of Bon Appetit to Compass Group PLC of England, and in its earlier acquisition of Bon Appetit;
• McGrath RentCorp , in its proposed $480 million acquisition by Tyco;
• Campari of Italy, in its acquisition of a majority interest in and options to purchase the remainder of Skyy Spirits for $210 million;
• 724 Solutions , in its $80 million acquisition of ezlogin, through a California fairness hearing; and
• Ravenswood Winery , in its $160 million acquisition by Constellation Brands.