This last move, like almost all the other sizeable deals in this transfer window, was paid for by a club seeking to ensure they avoid being relegated and falling off next season's gravy train.
More sizeable deals are expected by the year's end, including a listing of the Asian life-insurance operations of AIG, and dual China-Hong Kong listings for Agricultural Bank of China and two Chinese electrical-distribution firms.America's capital markets are benefiting too.
Additionally, having both a CRM and Marketo in one product portfolio would drive faster and more sizeable deals, similar to the strategy Salesforce employs with Pardot.
The country has a sizeable trade surplus.
Russia runs a sizeable trade surplus.
But while those deals are sizeable, none approaches the magnitude of Q1's largest deal: Cisco's $3.7 billion purchase of AppDynamics.
While the vote passed with a clear majority, a sizeable minority opposed the deal, worrying that Shell may be paying too much for BG given the sharp drop in the price of crude, which has tumbled from $55 a barrel when the deal was struck last April to about $31 now.
Add to this 300 million in China, 500 million in India, and over 200 million in Latin America, and it is a sizeable number we are dealing with.
But to see it written down in black and white confirms again what a leg-up West Ham's joint majority owners, David Gold and David Sullivan, and canny vice-chair Karren Brady (rumoured to have got a sizeable bonus for landing the deal) have received.
The deal is another sizeable transfer coup for Widnes, who finished bottom of Super League last year.
