Biggest merger & acquisition deals of 2009.

BIGGEST MERGER & ACQUISITION DEALS OF 2009 (Provided by Green, Manning & Bunch Ltd.) DATE TARGET TOTAL BUYERS TRANS. VALUE ($mm) 05/03/2009 Liberty Entertainment 12,735.0 DIRECTV Group Inc. (NasdaqGS:DTV) Liberty Entertainment Inc. offers entertainment services. The Englewood company operates as a subsidiary of Liberty Entertainment Group. 06/22/2009 Frontier Airlines 616.0 Republic Airways Holdings Inc. Holdings Inc. (NasdaqGS:RJET) Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides scheduled air transportation services for passengers and freight. The company operates jet service carriers linking from its Denver hub to 50 destinations. As of May 18, 2009, it operated a mainline fleet of 51 jets consisting of 38 Airbus A319s, 10 Airbus A318s, and three Airbus A320s, as well as a regional fleet of 10 Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Denver. As of Oct. 1, Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings Inc. 09/30/2009 WildBlue 568.0 ViaSat Inc. Communications Inc. (NasdaqGS:VSAT) WildBlue Communications Inc. provides high-speed broadband Internet access services to home, home office and small office customers. The company, formerly known as iSKY, changed its name to WildBlue Communications Inc. in August 2000. WildBlue was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village. 08/10/2009 Certain Oil & Gas 258.0 Williams Cos. Properties in Inc. (NYSE:WMB) Piceance Valley Certain Oil & Gas Properties in Piceance Valley comprise oil and gas exploration property covering approximately 190,000 net acres in the Piceance Basin. The asset covers 21,800 net acres with 28 wells, related gas and water gathering facilities, 94 approved drilling permits and around 800 drillable locations at 10 acres. The assets are located in Colorado. 10/01/2009 QLT USA Inc. 230.0 Tolmar Inc. QLT USA Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, focuses on advanced drug delivery. It is developing a portfolio of proprietary products, including oncology, pain management, and dermatology products. Its drug delivery systems deliver controlled amounts of drugs in time frames to address a range of therapeutic and patient needs. Atrigel is the company's original proprietary sustained-release biodegradable polymer drug delivery system. Its four additional drug delivery systems include BEMA, SMP, MCA and BCP. The company also partners with large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to apply its proprietary technologies to new chemical entities, or to extend the patent life of existing products. In addition, QLT USA has strategic alliances with various pharmaceutical companies to use its drug delivery technologies in the development of new products. These strategic alliances include collaborations with Pfizer Inc.; Sandoz Inc.; Sanofi-aventis Group; Astellas Pharma Inc.; Sosei Co, Ltd.; MediGene AG; and Mayne Pharma PTY, Ltd. The company was founded in 1986. It was formerly known as Atrix Laboratories Inc. and changed its name to QLT USA Inc. in November 2004. The company is based in Fort Collins. As of Oct. 1, QLT USA Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Tolmar Inc. 07/24/2009 Colorado Interstate 214.5 EPPP CIG GP Gas Co. Holdings LLC Colorado Interstate Gas Co. engages in the interstate transportation, storage and processing of natural gas in the United States. Its pipeline system consists of approximately 4,100 miles of pipeline, which extends from production areas in the Rocky Mountains and the Anadarko Basin to customers in...