Expected to close in the second quarter of 2013 for a closing value of $893.6 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of WSP Holdings will receive $3.20 per share in cash.

Update(s): On August 15, 2013, WSP Holdings Private Limited announced that the parties to the going private transaction of the Company have amended the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) to extend the termination date to December 31, 2013.

Expected to close in the summer of 2014 for a closing value of $172.1 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Tower Group International will receive $3.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 in an all stock deal. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Syntroleum Corporation will receive 0.3809 shares of REG common stock for each outstanding share of Syntroleum common stock.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $265.7 million in a cash plus stock deal. Under the terms of the agreement, Home Federal Bancorp shareholders will receive approximately $8.3368 in cash and 1.6776 shares of Cascade Bancorp common stock per share held.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Trunkbow International Holdings will receive $1.46 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first half of 2014 in a going private transaction. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of China Hydroelectric Corporation $3.51 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the third quarter of 2013. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of the Hallwood Group Incorporated will receive $10.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $60.1 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Exceed Company will receive $1.78 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first half of 2014 for a closing value of $97 million in a stock or cash deal. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Camco Financial will receive 0.7264 shares of Huntngton bancshares, or $6.00 in cash, for each share of Camco Financial common stock, subject to proration provisions specified in the merger agreement. Since the targeted aggregate split of total consideration is 80% common stock and 20% cash, we are treating this as an all stock deal.

Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of iSoftStone Holdings will receive $5.85 per share in cash.

Update(s)

November 2, 2013: iSoftStone Holdings Limited (“iSoftStone” or “the Company,” NYSE: ISS), a leading China-based IT services provider, today announced that the independent committee of its board of directors (the “Independent Committee”) has received a revised offer (the “Offer”), dated November 2, 2013, from a consortium (the “Consortium”) consisting of (i) Mr. Tianwen Liu, the chief executive officer and the chairman of the board of directors of the Company, (ii) ChinaAMC Capital Management Limited (“ChinaAMC”), an alternative investment platform and an affiliate of China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited, and (iii) Accurate Global Limited, Advance Orient Limited and CSOF Technology Investments Limited, to acquire all of the Company’s outstanding ordinary shares not currently owned by the Consortium for $0.545 per ordinary share or $5.45 per American depositary share (“ADS,” each representing ten ordinary shares of the Company) in cash (the “Transaction”), subject to certain conditions.

Expected to close early in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $3.7 billion in an all stock deal. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Hudson City Bancorp will receive consideration valued at 0.08403 of an M&T share in the form of either M&T stock or cash.

Expected to close by mid-year 2014 for a closing value of $178.4 million. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of North Valley Bancorp will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 0.9433 shares of TriCo coomon stock in exchange for each share of North Valley common stock.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $625 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Pactera Technology will receive $7.30 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the secand calendar quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $51.2 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Jefferson shareholders will receive a total of $8.00 per share in merger consideration consisting of $4.00 in cash plus $4.00 in HomeTrust common stock. This represents approximately $51.2 million of aggregate transaction consideration.  The number of HomeTrust shares to be issued will be determined based on HomeTrust’s average closing stock price during the 10 trading days ending on the fifth trading day prior to the closing date, with the exchange ratio fixed at 0.2667 if the average closing price is equal to or less than $15.00 per share and at 0.2222 if the average closing price is equal to or greater than $18.00 per share.

We are treating this as an all cash deal.

Expected to close for a closing value of $230 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Equal Energy will receive $5.43 per share in cash.

Expected to close in early 2014. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Camelot Information Systems will receive $2.05 per American Depositary Shares, each representing four (4) Shares (an “ADS”).

Expected to close in the first half of 2014 for a closing value of $910 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of RDA Microelectronics will receive $18.50 per share in cash.

Expected to close before the first fscal quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $339 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Yongye International will receive $6.69 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the third quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $243 million in an all stock deal. Under the terms of the agrement, shareholders of ConnectOne Bancorp will receive 2.6 shares of Center common stock for each share of ConnectOne common stock.

Expected to close in the second quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $161 million in an all stock transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Teche Holding Company will receive 1.162 shares of IBKC common stock for each share of Teche common stock outstanding, subject to certain market price adjustments provided for in the merger agreement.

Expected to close by April 2014 for a closing value of $340 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Nicholas Financial will receive $16.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close by mid-year 2014 for a closing value of $369 million in an all stock deal. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of United Financial Bancorp will receive 1.3472 shares of Rockville Financial common stock for each share of United Financial Bancorp.

Expected to close in the first half of 2014 for a closing value of $6.6 billion. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of LSI Corporation will receive $11.15 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first or second quarter of 2014 in a going private transaction. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of ChinaEdu Corporation will receive $7.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Food Technology Service will receive $7.23 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first half of 2014 for a closing value of $2.6 billion in an all stock deal. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of KKR Financial Holdings will receive 0.51 common units of KKR for each common share of KFN.

Expected to close by the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $83 million. Upon completion of the merger, sharheolders of NTS will receive $2.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the second quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $335 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Pacer International will receive $6.00 in cash and $3.00 of XPO Logistics common stock for each share of Pacer common stock, subject to a price collar. If the average price of XPO Logistics stock during the 10 trading days prior to closing is above $32.94 per share, the stock portion will be fixed at 0.0911 shares of XPO Logistics and if it is below $23.12 per share, the stock portion will be fixed at 0.1298 shares of XPO Logistics for each share of Pacer.

Expected to close in the second quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $1.2 billion. Upon competion of the merger, shareholders of The Jones Group will receive $15.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close before the end of 2014 for a closing value of $4.3 billion. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of UNS Energy Corporation will receive $60.25 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 in an all stock deal. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Brigus Gold Corp will be entitled to receive 0.175 of a Primero common share. In addition, Brigus shareholders will receive 0.1 of a common share in a newly incorporated company (“SpinCo”) for each Brigus coomon share as part of the Arrangement.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2013 for a closing value of $151.5 million in a cash plus stock deal. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Firstbank Corporation will receive a fixed ration of 1.00 share of Mercantile common stock for each share of Firstbank common stock.

In addition, Mercantile expects to pay a special cash dividend of $2.00 per share to Mercantile shareholders prior to the closing of the merger, subject to the satisfaction of the closing conditions in the merger agreement. In order to take this $2 special dividend into account, we are going to treat this as a cash plus stock deal with a cash value of negative $2.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $2.3 billion in a cash plus stock deal. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of CapitalSource will receive $2.47 in cash and 0.2837 shares of PacWest stock.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $5.6 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of PVR Partners will receive 1.02 shares of Regency Energy Partners common stock and approximately $0.31 per share in cash per share held.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $128 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Vitran Corp will receive $6.00 per share in cash.

Update(s)

December 30, 2013: Vitran Corp terminated its merger agreement with Manitoulin Transport and agreed to be acquired by TransForce Inc.

Expected to close by the end of the year for a closing value of $79 million in an all stock deal. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of BCSB Bancorp will receive 2.08 shares of F.N.B. Corporation common stock for each common share of BCSB Bancorp.

Expected to close in the first half of 2014 for a closing value of $265.1 million in a cash plus stock deal. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Washington Banking shareholders will receive 0.89000 shares of Heritage common stock and $2.75 in cash for each share of Washington Banking common stock.

Expected to close in the first half of 2014 for a closing value of $11.2 billion. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Cole may elect to receive 1.0929 shares of ARCP common stock (reflecting a fixed exchange ratio) or $13.82 cash for each share of Cole common stock.  In the event elections for payment in cash exceed 20% of Cole’s outstanding shares, such elections would be prorated. ARCP will increase its annualized dividend $0.06 to $1.00 per share upon the close of the merger.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $640 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Hi-Tech Pharmacal will receive $43.50 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $15.4 billion in a cash plus stock transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of BRE Properties will receive 0.2971 newly issued shares of Essex common stock plus $12.33 in cash.

Expected to close by late 2013 or early 2014 for a closing value of $584 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Zoltek will receive $16.75 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the third quarter of 2013 for a closing value of $490.6 million in an all stock deal. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Virginia Commerce Bancorp will receive 0.5442 of United’s shares for each share of VCBI.

Update(s)

November 29, 2013: United Bankshares, Inc. and Virginia Commerce Bancorp, Inc. announced that they have entered into a joint waiver and agreement with respect to the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated as of January 29, 2013 to extend the termination date for merger from November 30, 2013 to January 31, 2014.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $52.5 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Investors Capital Holdings will receive $7.25 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $107.7 million in a cash plus stock deal. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Tower Financial Corporation will receive 1.20 shares of Old National Bancorp common stock and $6.75 in cash for each share of Tower Financial common stock.

Expected to close early in 2014 for a closing value of $200 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Flow International Corporation will receive $4.05 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $860 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Given Imageing will receive $30.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close by the end of the year for a closing value of $35 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Analysts International will receive $6.45 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $786 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Coleman Cable will receive $26.25 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first half of 2014 for a closing value of $2 billion in a cash plus stock deal. Under the terms of the agreeement, shareholders of Sterling Financial Corporation will receive 1.671 shares of Umpqua common stock and $2.18 cash for each share of Sterling common stock.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $1 billion. Upon completion of the merger, sharejoders of Gentium will receive $57.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $120.9 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Dynamics Research Corporation will receive $11.50 per share in cash.

Expected to close either in the last quarter of 2013 or first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $4.2 billion. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of ViroPharma will receive $50.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first half of 2014 for a closing value of $1.5 billion. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Responsys will receive $27.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close for a closing value of $381 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Anaren will receive $28.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the second quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $16 billion. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Beam will receive $83.50 per share in cash.

Expected to close early in 2014 for a closing value of $13.6 billion plus the assumption of net debt at close ($2.2 billion as of uear end 2012). Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Life Technologies will receive $76.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $620 million in a cash plus stock deal. Under the terms of the transaction, Consolidated Graphics shareholders will receive a combination of $34.44 in cash and a fixed exchange ratio of 1.651 RR Donnelley shares for each outstanding share of Consolidated Graphics they own.

Expected to close by the end of thhe year for a closing value of $2.5 billion. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Harris Teeter Supermarkets will receive $49.38 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Cornerstone Therapeutics will receive $9.50 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $1.84 billion. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Valassis Communications will receive $34.04 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Tufco Technologies will receive $6.07 per share in cash.

Expected to close by May 15, 2014 for a closing value of $139 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Material Sciences Corporation will receive $12.75 per share in cash.

Expected to close by mid-calendar year 2014 for a closing value of $374 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Xyratex will receive $13.25 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first half of 2014 for a closing value of $680 million in a cash plus stock deal. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Taylor Capital will receive 0.64318 shares of MB Financial common stock and $4.08 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $1.3 billion. Upon competion of the merger, shareholders of CEC Entertainment will receive $54.00 per share in cash.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $117 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Harris Interactive will receive $2.00 per share in cash. This price is subject to adjustment based on Harris Interactive’s average cash calculated during a 10-day period before and after a reference date expected to occur approximately 20 business days after commencement of the offer.

Expected to close in early 2014 for a closing value of $105 million. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of NuPathe will receive $2.85 per share in cash. In addition to the upfront cash payment, NuPathe shareholders will receive rights to receive additional cash payments of up to $3.15 per share if specified net sales of NuPathe’s migraine treatment ZECUITY are achieved over time.

Update(s)

January 21, 2014: NuPathe (PATH) terminated its agreement and plan of merger with Endo Health Solutions (ENDP) and entered into an agreement and plan of merger with Teva Pharmaceuticals (TEVA) for $3.65 per share in cash. In addition to the upfront cash payment, NuPathe stockholders will receive rights to receive additional cash payments of up to $3.15 per share if specified net sales of NuPathe’s migraine treatment, ZECUITY, are achieved over time.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 for a closing value of $1.19 billion. Upon completion of the merger, shareholders of Leap Wireless International will receive $15.00 per share in cash.