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The leading institutions, deals, and individuals shaping 2025 were honoured at a ceremony held at The Metropolitan Club in New York City.
The winning institutions and individuals will be revealed at the awards dinner on June 17 in London
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Westfield Holding is probably the best quality real estate investment trust (Reit) from Australia. The fact that the financing unit of a Reit was able to tap the 144a bond market for a 10-year issue after a six-month hiatus of deals from the sector was impressive and earns Asiamoney’s international bond award for 2008.
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Suncorp-Metway waited for a window of opportunity to conduct a hybrid equity issue last year and it duly arrived in May, with the ASX in a recovery phase. The firm gained good momentum by releasing a favourable profit outlook on the first day of its road-show, and it didn’t look back.
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When pharma firm CSL needed to raise cash to fund its takeover of a US rival it turned to Merrill Lynch. Acting alone, the bank rapidly built a top-quality order book for the follow-on offering. It helped that experts were so confident in the rationale of CSL’s acquisition.
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CBA’s takeover of the Bank of Western Australia and St Andrew’s Australia late last year was timely, smart and sensible. The acquisition was complimentary to CBA’s business and deserves recognition for its nimbleness.
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It is the composition of its lending that made Mizuho Corporate Bank stand out in 2008. It was responsible for pricing five of the year’s 10 largest transactions and took sole bookrunner positions on a number of deals.
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Mizuho Securities was comfortably top of the pile in terms of overall issuance in 2008. While it raised a lot of funding for itself, it also helped many of Japan’s most prominent local borrowers to raise funding too.