Dear Readers: Thank you for participating in our third annual Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers survey, in which you can help us identify the companies in five major industry sectors that are most respected for their dealmaking abilities. To enter to win a 16GB Apple iPad with Wi-Fi (a $499 value), please enter your e-mail address at the end of the survey. We will use this e-mail address only to contact you if you are the winner of the raffle. The results of this study will be published in The Deal magazine and The Deal Pipeline, and posted on The Deal's website. Background: We've compiled lists of the five best-performing, transaction-intensive companies in each of the five industry sectors. We're asking a cross-section of the deal community (corporate executives, investment bankers, lawyers, private equity investors, transaction services consultants and others) to tell us which companies they think are doing the best job. Companies appear on the lists in alphabetical order, and by virtue of a two-step screening process. First, we generated a list of the ten most active dealmaking companies in each sector, based on a formula that counts both acquisitions and divestitures and takes into account the number and dollar volume of deals. We looked at deals closed between 01/01/07 and 12/30/09 by U.S.-based public companies with a market capitalization greater than $5 billion on the latter date. The second step was to select the five companies within that group of ten active dealmakers whose market cap showed the greatest increase (or smallest decrease) in the study period. These are the companies you'll be rating. Instructions: You'll be judging the companies on four basic criteria. Information on the dealmaking activity of each company is available as needed. This information was compiled by Standard & Poor's Capital IQ, working in collaboration with editors at The Deal. The survey should take only a few minutes of your time. Your responses will be kept completely anonymous. We thank you again for your time.