The awards recognise the most impressive transactions across equity capital markets, debt capital markets and loan syndication, as well as the best investment banks in the region.
This year, GlobalCapital is taking a new approach to its awards, combining a market poll with pitch meetings to determine the standout deals and houses in Asia.
Stage one:
Banks should submit their written pitches for the best deals and best house awards by October 14, 2022.
The aim of the written submission is to allow each bank, in its own words, to tell the story of its achievements, innovation and performance during the awards period, backed up where relevant by supporting data from Dealogic, as well as client testimonials.
Stage two:
Once submissions are received, our team of journalists will shortlist a list of up to five candidates across each of the different deal award categories.
These shortlists will be publicly disclosed and put to a market vote through a poll that will open in early November. More details around the poll and its rules will be disclosed when polling begins.
Stage three:
The best deals will be decided through the market poll, in combination with editorial research.
The best bank awards will be determined based on pitch meetings or calls to take place between mid-October and mid-November with GlobalCapital’s senior editorial team.
The results of the poll and the winners of the best house awards will be revealed in January 2023.
The awards period runs from November 1, 2021, to October 31, 2022.
We will accept supplementary written pitches for deals that are priced after the banks submit their pitch as long as they fall within the awards period.
To make a submission please create an account on the GlobalCapital Awards & Accreditations submissions portal: https://gcasia.awardsplatform.com
There is no fee to participate. Please note all the categories are for regional Asia ex-Japan ex-Australia awards and are not country specific.
AWARDS CATEGORIES
DEAL AWARDS (ASIA EX-JAPAN EX-AUSTRALIA)
Winners will be decided based on a market poll and editorial research
Equity
Best equity-linked deal
Best IPO
Best follow-on/ABB
ECM deal of the year
Loans
Best leveraged finance loan
Best corporate M&A loan
Best investment grade syndicated loan
Best high yield syndicated loan
Best ESG loan*
Loan of the year
Bonds
Best high yield corporate bond
Best investment grade corporate bond
Best financial bond
Best SSA bond
Best local currency bond
Best liability management deal
Best ESG bond*
Bond of the year
*ESG deals include public green, blue, social, sustainable, sustainability-linked or transition deals. For ESG loans, the loan should be syndicated.
HOUSE AWARDS (ASIA EX-JAPAN EX-AUSTRALIA)
Winners will be determined based on pitch meetings with the editorial team
Best loans house
Best ECM house
Best house for ESG/SRI financing
Best G3 bond house
Best high yield bond house
Best local currency bond house
Best investment bank
Best Asian investment bank
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The awards period runs from November 1, 2021, to October 31, 2022.
We will only consider transactions from issuers based in Asia ex Japan ex Australia. For the local currency bond deal awards, the issuers can be based outside of Asia, but should have done deals in Asia’s local currencies.
The awards are regional Asia awards, and not country specific.
The deadline for written pitches is October 14. There is no fee to participate in the awards process.
Deal pitches should be no more than five pages in length. House pitches should be no more than 10 pages in length.
For deal awards, please submit just ONE deal per category. For loan transactions, syndication must be completed.
Deals should demonstrate any or all of the following: superb execution, fulfilment of client needs, excellent reading of market conditions and investor appetite, aftermarket support, challenges overcome, and structural or other innovations. Only shortlisted deals will be put to a market poll to determine the winners.
Award-winning banks will demonstrate: breadth of coverage, origination and execution success, client relationship strength, market share development, and diversity of business in terms of deal type, client and geography.
We may omit a category if we feel there is no worthy candidate or if we consider deal flow to have been insufficient to merit its inclusion.
HOW TO SUBMIT
To make a submission please create an account on the Awards & Accreditations submissions portal: https://gcasia.awardsplatform.com
Word, PDF and PowerPoint formats will be accepted. Please indicate clearly in your pitches the categories you are pitching for.
In your pitch documents, please provide details of the senior bankers to be contacted for the polling process. Please also provide details of your clients/ issuers you would like us to approach for the market poll for the deal categories.
Queries should be sent to:
Rashmi Kumar, Asia bureau chief | GlobalCapital
rashmi.kumar@globalcapital.com
Manju Dalal, deputy editor | GlobalCapital Asia
Click here to see the winners of the 2021 Asia awards.
