Got a few minutes and an interest in helping to spotlight superior work in strategic M&A? Then we hope you'll take part in The Deal's 2008 Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers survey.

To get started, log on to our survey site at www.thedeal.com/cdsurvey. There you will have the chance to rate the efforts of selected transaction-intensive public companies in each of three industry sectors: healthcare, industrials and information technology. You can rate companies in as many (or as few) sectors as you feel qualified to judge. Your ratings will be entirely anonymous. To ensure that your responses can be counted, please complete the survey by Oct. 13.

The survey site contains the same company lists shown on the pages that follow, and includes company descriptions and lists of transactions closed by the companies between Jan. 1, 2005, and June 30, 2008.

We'll share survey results with participants after Guideline Inc., our survey partner, has finished compiling them in November. The results will be announced during a Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers Awards luncheon ceremony at The Deal's M&A Outlook conference in New York on Nov. 12, and will also be the subject of another magazine article in The Deal. To find out how you can attend M&A Outlook, visit www.maoutlook2009.com/.

Between now and then, we'll be discussing the survey here on the Corporate Dealmaker Web site. We welcome suggestions about how we can improve it next year. CD

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