The 16 Biggest Corporate Mega-Deals Of All Time

Comcast Cable announced today that it will acquire Time Warner Cable in a $45.2 billion deal. Including Time Warner's debt, the deal is valued at nearly $67 billion which is what the Bloomberg data represents.

While this may seem like a mega-deal, its actually only the sixteenth largest in M&A history.

On the back of that announcement, we dug around to find the biggest mergers and acquisitions of all time.

Since some of the names have changed, we've clarified some of the deals.

• The biggest deal refers to the AOL-Time Warner merger, Time Warner is the current name of the acquirer.
• The second biggest deal refers to Vodafone Airtouch's acquisition of Mannesmann. Vodafone Group is the current name of the acquirer.
• The tenth biggest deal refers to Comcast acquires AT&T Broadband from AT&T.
• The fourteenth largest deal refers to Citicorp's merger with Travelers Group. The acquirer is now known as Citigroup.
• The fifteenth largest deal refers to SBC Communications acquisition of Ameritech. The acquirer is now known as AT&T.

Note: We culled the data from Bloomberg. The list only goes back to 1998.