<item>1. Covers transactions valued at $1,000,000 or more. Values based on transactions for which price data revealed.
<item>2. All activity includes mergers, acquisitions, acquisitions of controlling interest, divestitures, and leveraged transactions that result in a change in ownership.
<item>3. Divestiture: sale of a business, division, or subsidiary by corporate owner to another party.
<item>4. Leveraged buyout: acquisition of a business in which buyers use mostly borrowed money to finance purchase price and incorporate debt into capital structure of a business after change in ownership.
<item>5. Combination of cash, stock debt, other.
<item>6. Price was given but method of payment was not.