M&A report--July 2007.

Strategic deals predominated Los Angeles' merger and acquisition scene in July, with the Blackstone Group's $26 billion bid for Beverly Hills-based Hilton Hotels Corp. coming in as the largest transaction involving a local company in the last two years. The New York private equity firm

plans to bring many of its own extensive hospitality holdings under the Hilton name. There were 71 deals announced during the month, with 22 providing financial details, for a total announced valued of $35.1 billion. What follows is a list of transactions announced in July in which the buyer, seller or owner is headquartered in Los Angeles County.

BUSINESS SERVICES

Seller: Advanced Roofing Solutions Inc. (Lawndale)

Business: Provides leak repair roof maintenance services

Buyer: Environmental Service Professionals Inc. (Palm Springs)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: AIM Underwriting Ltd. (Canada) Business: Provides insurance protections for aircraft

Buyer: Allianz Global Risks US Insurance Company (Burbank)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Fiesta Rentals (West Palm Beach, Florida)

Business: Provides party rental services

Buyer: Classic Party Rentals Inc. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Fuel (United Kingdom)

Business: Provides educational and training services and specializes in e-learning solutions

Buyer: LRN Corp. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Garcel Inc. (Woodland Hills)

Business: Provides asset management and other financial services

Buyer: Credit Suisse (USA) Inc. (New York, New York)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Grand Events & Party Rentals Inc. (Memphis, Tennessee)

Business: Rents event and party equipment

Buyer: Classic Party Rentals Inc. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: GroupEx Financial Corp. (La Mirada)

Business: Provides electronic money transfer services

Buyer: Coinstar Inc. (Bellevue, Washington)

Deal Value: $70 million

Seller: Jet Aviation Services inc. (Burbank)

Business: Provides aviation services

Buyer: Phoenix Associates Land Syndicate (Madisonville, Louisiana)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: McCray, Sheweloff & Associates Inc. (Los Angeles)

Business: Provides executive staffing services

Buyer: Morgan Samuels Co. (Beverly Hills)

Deal Value: NO

Seller: Paoiolan Systems inc. (Irvine)

Business: Provides ticketing, fundraising, and marketing technology solutions for venues

Buyer: Ticketmaster (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Party Showcase (Raleigh, North Carolina)

Business: Provides party rental services

Buyer: Classic Party Rentals Inc. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Platinum Equity (CompuCom Systems Inc.) (Beverly Hills)

Business: Provides distributed desktop products and network integration services

Buyer: Court Square Capital Partners (IIM Acquisition Corp.) (New York, New York)

Deal Value: $628 million

Seller: Spin Shoppe PR (New York, New York)

Business: Provides marketing consulting services

Buyer: Canvas PR & Marketing (Beverly Hills)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Swirl Entertainment Group (Los Angeles)

Business: Provides public relations services

Buyer: Beere Financial Group Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Wireless Facilities Inc. (San Diego)

Business: Offers consulting services to the wireless telecommunications industry

Buyer: Platinum Equity LLC (Beverly Hills)

Deal Value: $24 million

CONSUMER

Seller: 7 For All Mankind LLC (Los Angeles)

Business: Manufactures jeans and other apparels

Buyer: VF Corp. (Greensboro, North Carolina)

Deal Value: $775 million

Seller: Ares Management LLC (Samsonite Corp.--Principal Shareholder) (Los Angeles)

Business: Designs, manufactures, distributes of luggage products

Buyer: CVC Capital Partners Ltd. (United Kingdom)

Deal Value: $1.7 billion

Seller: Calwell Corp. (Baldwin Park)

Business: Provides apparel distribution

Buyer: WFT Concepts LLC (New York, New York)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Maly's West Inc. (Valencia)

Business: Distributes professional salon products

Buyer: L'Oreal USA Inc. (New York, New York)

Deal Value: NO

Seller: The Container Store Inc. (Coppell, Texas)

Business: Retails storage and organization products

Buyer: Leonard Green & Partners, LP (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: NO

FOOD

Seller: Applebee's International Inc. (Overland Park, Kansas)

Business: Develops, franchises and operates restaurants under the Applebees Neighborhood Grill & Bar brand

Buyer: IHOP Corp. (Glendale)

Deal Value: $1.9 billion

Seller: Fleischmann's Vinegar Co. Inc. (Cerritos)

Business: Manufactures and markets industrial vinegar and cooking wine

Buyer: American Capital Strategies Ltd. (Bethesda, Maryland)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: FoodBrand LLC (Westlake Village)

Business: Provides food supply services

Buyer: HMSHost Corp. (Bethesda. Maryland)

Deal Value: $13 million

Seller: Markstone Capital Group LLC (Zeraim Gedera Ltd.) (Los Angeles)

Business: Produces & Markets the seeds of vegetable varieties

Buyer: Syngenta AG (Switzerland)

Deal Value: ND

HEALTH CARE

Seller: Aita Healthcare System LLC (Los Angeles)

Business: Operates hospitals

Buyer: Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. (Culver City)

Deal Value: $103 million

Seller: AmCyte Inc. (Santa Monica)

Business: Provides safe and effective cell therapy for patients with diabetes

Buyer: ReNeuron Group PLC (United Kingdom)

Deal Value: $4 million

Seller: BioCatalytics Inc. (Pasadena)

Business: Produces custom and off-the-shelf enzymes

Buyer: Codexis inc. (Redwood City)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Chicagoland Caregivers, Corp. (Chicago, Illinois)

Business: Provides non-medical home care

Buyer: LivHOME Inc. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: HCA inc. (Clinique de Carouge / Hospital de la Tour) (Nashville, Tennessee)

Business: Operates hospital

Buyer: Colony Capital LLC (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: PrimaTech Medical Systems (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

Business: Supplies electronically controlled support systems to the long-term care and home care medical markets

Buyer: Anodyne Medical Device Inc. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Renaissance Herbs Inc. (Chatsworth)

Business: Manufactures botanical health care products

Buyer: Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (India)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Sterile Manufacturing Facility) (Corona)

Business: Manufactures and markets lyophilized powders, suspension products, and aqueous and oil solutions

Buyer: Abraxis Bioscience Inc. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

INDUSTRIAL

Seller: Carson Industries LLC (Glendora)

Business: Manufactures plastic products

Buyer: CRH plc (Ireland)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Cyclam Holdings LLC (Palos Verdes Estates)

Business: Manufactures and distributes water pump seals for the automotive market

Buyer: KPAC Solutions (Brentwood, Tennessee)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Dexter Magnetic Technologies Inc. (Elk Grove Village,Illinois)

Business: Manufactures magnetic products

Buyer: Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Inc. (Bevedy Hills)

Deal Value: NO

Seller: Keystone Automotive Industries Inc. (Pomona)

Business: Distributes and sells aftermarket collision replacement parts and new vehicle parts

Buyer: LKQ Corp. (Chicago, Illinois)

Deal Value: $811 million

Seller: Lehner & Martin Inc. (Santa Aria)

Business: Distributes industrial gas and welding supplies

Buyer: Airgas West Inc. (Lakewood)

Deal Value: NO

Seller: Northrup Gruman Corp. (Commercial Communication Products Division) (Los Angeles)

Business: Manufactures transponders and transceivers

Buyer: Avanex Corp. (Fremont)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Oxy Vinyls LP (Dallas, Texas)

Business: Produces vinyl chloride monomer

Buyer: Occidental Petroleum Corp. (LOS Angeles)

Deal Value: $261 million

Seller: Platinum Equity (ESM Group Inc.) (Beverly Hills)

Business: Provides hot metal desutphurization SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Gmbh (Germany)

Deal Value: $75 million

Seller: Ryerson Inc. (Chicago. Illinois)

Business: Distributes and processes metals

Buyer: Platinum Equity LLC (Beverly Hills)

Deal Value: $2 billion

Seller: Scaled Composites LLC (Mojave)

Business: Operates as an aerospace and specialty composites development company

Buyer: Northrop Grumman Corp. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Turbine Generator Maintenance Inc. (Cape Coral, Florida)

Business: Provides field and shop services to the turbine generator market

Buyer: GFI Energy Ventures LLC (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: ZC&R Coatings for Optics Inc. (Torrance)

Business: Produces precision coatings for customers in aerospace, defense, medical, entertainment, and telecommunications industries

Buyer: Abrisa Industrial Glass Inc. (Santa Paula)

Deal Value: ND

MEDIA

Seller: AdModus (New York, New York)

Business: Provides advertising services

Buyer: Connexus Corp. (El Segundo)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc. (Chicago Fire) (Los Angeles)

Business: Major League Soccer club

Buyer: Andell Holdings LLC (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Art Machine (Culver City)

Business: Provides entertainment marketing services

Buyer: Lake Capital Partners Inc. (Chicago, Illinois)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Citadel Broadcasting Corp. (7 radio stations) (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Business: Operates several radio stations

Buyer: Mapleton Communications LLC (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: GolfSpan.com Inc. (Fort Lee, New Jersey)

Business: Provides golfers of all interests and skill levels indispensable information about every aspect of the game

Buyer: Demand Media Inc. (Santa Monica)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Hotels at Home Inc. (Fairfield, New Jersey)

Business: Publishes in-room retail catalogs and hotel-branded e-commerce websites

Buyer: Affinity Media International Corp. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: $36 million

Seller: LeadCreations.com LLC (Coral Gables, Florida)

Business: Operates as an online marketing company

Buyer: eForce Media Inc. (Santa Monica)

Deal Value: $8 million

Seller: Lexico Publishing Group LLC (Long Beach)

Business: Provides free online language reference products and services

Buyer: Answers Corp. (Israel)

Deal Value: $100 million

Seller: Magic Broadcasting LLC. (KWIE FM) (Panama City, Florida)

Business: Provides radio broadcasting services

Buyer: LBI Media Inc. (Burbank)

Deal Value: $25 million

Seller: MeziMedia Inc. (Monrovia)

Business: Operates online shopping websites

Buyer: ValueClick Inc. (Westlake Village)

Deal Value: $100 million

Seller: Restore Media LLC (Old-House Journal) (Washington, D.C.)

Business: Publishes a quarterly magazine

Buyer: Active interest Media Inc. (El Segundo)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Roadside Attractions LLC (Beverly Hills)

Business: Distributes theatrical motion pictures

Buyer: Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (Santa Monica)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Scope Seven Inc. (El Segundo)

Business: Provides media services

Buyer: Zoo Digital Group PLC (United Kingdom)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: The Collector's Guide (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Business: Publishes a guidebook

Buyer: Active Interest Media Inc. (El Segundo)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: TripUp Inc. (Los Angeles)

Business: Operates a unique community and social networking site dedicated to travel

Buyer: SideStep Inc. (Santa Clara)

Deal Value: ND

REAL ESTATE

Seller: Hilton Hotels Corp. (Beverly Hills)

Business: Provides management and development of hotels and resorts

Buyer: Blackstone Group LP (New York, New York)

Deal Value: $26,000 million

TECHNOLOGY

Seller: Bridal Media Ventures (Beverly Hills)

Business: Develops and manages a portfolio of wedding related authority Web sites, email lists, and information products

Buyer: Red Ventures (Charlotte, North Carolina)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Business.com Inc. (Santa Monica)

Business: Operates an online search engine

Buyer: R.H. Donnelley Corp. (Cary, North Carolina)

Deal Value: $350 million

Seller: Interactive Television Networks Inc. (ITVN Inc.) (Woodland Hills)

Business: Offers set-top box for broadband connection

Buyer: BroadShift Inc. (Canada)

Deal Value: $11 million

Seller: Jelsoft Enterprises Limited (United Kingdom)

Business: Develops Web applications and offers vBulletin, a community forum solution

Buyer: Interact Brands, Inc (El Segundo)

Deal Value: NO

Seller: Junction Point Studios Inc. (Austin, Texas)

Business: Develops video games

Buyer: The Walt Disney Co. (Burbank)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Precision Dynamics Corp. (San Fernando)

Business: Develops automatic identification wristband systems

Buyer: Water Street Healthcare Partners (Chicago, Illinois)

Deal Value: $75 million

Seller: Send2Fax LLC (Ridgeland, South Carolina)

Business: Provides internet fax services

Buyer: 12 Global Communications Inc. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Southeast Towers LLC (Atlanta, Georgia)

Business: Develops, owns, and operates communication towers

Buyer: Diamond Communications Inc. (Alhambra)

Deal Value: ND

Seller:. Startec Global Communications Corp. (Rockville, Maryland)

Business: Provides telecommunications services

Buyer: Platinum Equity LLC (Beverly Hills)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Vista Systems, Corp. (Phoenix, Arizona)

Business: Develops and produces video processors and widescreen displays for live-show producer

Buyer: Christie Digital Systems USA Inc. (Cypress)

Deal Value: ND

Seller: Yac Ltd. (ireland)

Business: Provides communications services through the interact, phone or wireless device

Buyer: J2 Global Communications Inc. (Los Angeles)

Deal Value: ND