We handled more than 150 M&A transactions valued at $30 billion in 1999. Select transactions include:

• Arch – has agreed to acquire Paging Network, Inc. - $1,700,000,000
• Nexabit – has been acquired by Lucent Technologies Inc. - $1,073,000,000
• I-Cube – has been acquired by Razorfish, Inc. - $1,671,000,000
• Millennium – has acquired Leukosite, Inc. - $910,000,000
• NFL – has acquired an option to purchase an equity interest in Arena Football League LLC - Undisclosed
• AltaVista – has been acquired by CMGI, Inc. - $2,300,000,000
• EG&G – has required the Analytical Instrument Division of Perkin-Elmer Corporation - $425,000,000
• NetCore Systems, Inc. – has been acquired by Tellabs, Inc. - $575,000,000
• Saville Systems – has been acquired by ADC Telecommunications, Inc. - $603,000,000
• Prodigy – has agreed to establish a strategic relationship with SBC Communications, Inc. - $1,610,000,000
• Omnia Communications, Inc. – has been acquired by Ciena Corporation - $474,000,000
• CMGI – has agreed to acquire yesmail.com,inc - $523,000,000
• Prodigy Communications Corporation – has acquired by BizOnThe.Net business of VarTec Telecom, Inc. - $100,000,000
• Castle Networks – has been acquired by Siemens Corporation – Undisclosed
• Webline – has been acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. - $325,000,000
• Xedia – has been acquired by Lucent Technologies, Inc. - $285,000,000
• ITDS – has been acquired by Amdocs Limited - $229,000,000
• Northeast Optic Network – has agreed to acquire selected fiber optic facilities and services from various parties - $280,000,000
• Open Market – has acquired Future Tense, Inc. - $125,000,000
• Amteva Technologies, Inc. – has been acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. - $170,000,000
• Casella – has acquired KTI, Inc. - $385,000,000
• The Berkshire Group – has completed the leveraged buyout of Berkshire Realty Holdings, L.P. - $1,260,000,000
• Engage – has acquired AdKnowledge Inc. - $310,000,000
• PerkinElmer – has agreed to acquire Vivid Technologies, Inc. - $62,000,000
• Roxy – has acquired Everything Wireless, Inc. - Undisclosed
• Sapient – has acquired Adjacency, Inc. - $50,000,000
• Energy North – has agreed to be acquired by Eastern Enterprises - $250,000,000
• CMGI – has agreed to acquire AdForce, Inc. - $1,800,000,000
• CMGI – has agreed to acquire Flycast Communications Corp. - $2,540,000,000
• EG&G – has acquired Lumen Technologies, Inc. - $250,000,000
• Thermo Electron – has sold CCS Trex Com, Inc. to EPOS Corporation - Undisclosed
• Spyglass – has sold its SurfWatch Division to JSP Software Technologies, PLC - $29,000,000
• Stream – has been acquired by Bain Capital, Inc. - Undisclosed
• Novera – has been acquired by TSI International Software Ltd. - $53,000,000
• Prodigy Communications Corporation – has agreed to acquire FlashNet Communications, Inc. - $125,000,000
• Diatide, Inc. – has been acquired by Schering Berlin Inc. - $134,000,000
• Arch – has acquired MobileMedia Corporation - $724,000,000
• Redstone Communications – has been acquired by Siemens Corporation - Undisclosed
• The Learning Company – has been acquired by Mattel, Inc. - $3,600,000,000
• Newmark International – has completed a leveraged recapitalization - $81,000,000
• Cimaron Communications – has been acquired by Applied Micro Circuits Corp. - $117,000,000
• Staples – has acquired Claricom Holdings, Inc. - $1,308,000,000
• Kenan – has been acquired by Lucent Technologies, Inc - $1,308,000,000
• Viewlogic – has agreed to merge with Summit Design, Inc. - $58,000,000
• Franklin Street Partners – has acquired Various Limited Partnerships – $120,000,000
• EG&G – has sold its Government Contract Services Business to The Carlyle Group - $250,000,000
• Wang Global – has been acquired by Getronics NV - $2,000,000,000