The Deal Announces Candidates For Eighth Annual Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers Awards

NEW YORK, April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Deal announced the candidates for the Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers Awards. Now in their eighth year, the awards recognize successful dealmaking teams at transaction-intensive corporations in ten industry sectors. The selection process for contenders is overseen by The Deal's senior editors assessing corporate dealmaking effectiveness over the past calendar year of transaction history as reported by The Deal's transaction information service.

"After several lean years, the M&A market has come roaring back, and this year is on pace to end up as the most active we've seen since before the financial crisis," said Jeffrey Kanige, Editor in Chief of The Deal. "Hot markets present their own challenges for corporate dealmakers – higher valuations, greater competition, for example – and The Deal's Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers Awards will recognize the teams that were most successful in taking advantage of the myriad opportunities in the resurgence."

The online survey will solicit responses from M&A dealmaking peers of the candidates —corporate executives, financial sponsors, investment bankers, lawyers and management consultants —over the next several months.  Participants will be asked to rank each of the contenders' dealmaking teams.

Winners will be announced November 16, 2015 and recognized during The Deal Economy Event, the annual forecasting conference held on Thursday, December 3, 2015 in New York City.

The candidates are:

• Chemicals Category:  Albemarle Corp., Eastman Chemical Co., Platform Specialty Products Corp., Wesco Aircraft Holdings Inc., US Ecology Inc.
• Consumer Category:  Mars Inc., Mattel Inc., Newell Rubbermaid Inc., Berry Plastics Group Inc., Gibson Brands Inc.
• Energy Category: Kinder Morgan Inc., Williams Partners LP, Whiting Petroleum Corp., Targa Resources Partners LP, Southwestern Energy Co.
• Financial Category: TIAA – CREF, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Vantiv Inc., Portfolio Recovery Associates Inc., RCS Capital Corp.
• Healthcare Category: AbbVie Inc., Medtronic Inc., Merck & Co. Inc., Becton, Dickinson and Co., Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings Inc.
• Manufacturing Category: Scientific Games Corp., Alcoa Inc., PPG Industries Inc., Steel Dynamics Inc., Regal Beloit Corp.
• Retail Category: Burger King Worldwide Inc., Dollar Tree Inc., Priceline Group Inc., FTD Cos. Inc., Kroger Co.
• Technology Category: Facebook Inc., Oracle Corp., Scientific Games Corp., Cypress Semiconductor Corp., Google Inc.
• Telecommunications Category: AT&T Inc., Analog Devices Inc., American Tower Corp., Birch Communications Inc., Syniverse Technologies LLC
• Utilities Category: Laclede Group Inc., LS Power Equity Advisors LP, NRG Energy Inc.

For more information, please visit www.thedeal.com.

About The Deal
The Deal is a media and relationship capital company providing over 100,000 users with business opportunities sourced from proprietary deal news and a relationship discovery tool. Law firms, investment banks, private equity and hedge funds use The Deal's insight and analysis about potential and announced transactions to find their next deal and BoardEx's service and database for building relationships. The Deal has offices in New York, London, Washington, D.C., Petaluma, CA and Chennai, India. For more information, visit www.thedeal.com.

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