Deals of the Year Awards 2008
Your chance to nominate the best equity and debt deals of 2008 to date, including your own! All types of deal will be considered and judged on the basis of demonstrating innovation and excellence in treasury rather than on the size of the deal.
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Awards categories
- Bonds, including high-yield bonds
- Corporate Finance (hybrids, asset-backed, IPOs, convertibles and other equity)
- Liability Management (management/restructuring of existing debt facilities, with a potential element of new finance)
- Loans – UK and Continental Mid-market Corporates (deal size < £750m)
- Loans – UK Larger Corporates (deal size > £750m)
- Loans – Continental European Corporates (deal size > £750m)
PLUS
Overall Deals Winner – selected from the winners of the above categories
The judging panel
Our expert panel brings together experienced practitioners from the corporate, bank and advisory worlds, all of whom have contributed to many successful transactions in the financial markets
- Jonathan Slade, Diageo (Chair)
- Francis Burkitt, NM Rothschild & Sons
- Mary Finn, Burton Foods
- Ian Fitzgerald, Lloyds TSB
- Lesley Flowerdew, WS Atkins
- Sean Hanafin, Citi
- Peter Matza, ACT
- Nick Mourant, Tesco
- Neill Thomas, KPMG Corporate Finance
- Paul Watters, Standard & Poor’s
- Graham Wood, formerly E.ON
- Henryk Wuppermann, Bayer
Selection criteria
The panel will give full consideration to all nominated deals and use the criteria below to select the winners of each category, plus an overall winner
- Sound treasury management
- Efficient pricing
- Optimal or innovative structure
- Relative success in prevailing market conditions
In all cases, the deal must involve a corporate with a UK or Continental European domicile in which the corporate treasury team played a significant role. Only non-financial corporate deals are considered. Deals from organisations such as supranational, agencies, municipals and financial institutions will NOT be considered. Deals may be in any currency.
Only deals completed between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2008 qualify for consideration.
Nomination process
Deals may be nominated by all members of the ACT and readers of The Treasurer, as well as the bankers and advisors involved in those deals.
Nominations may be made in two ways:
- For the marketing and communications teams of banks or advisors, by submitting the relevant nominations form with up to three pages of supporting information.
- For members of the ACT and readers of The Treasurer, by providing brief details of the nominated deal and reasons why the deal should be considered
Nominations are still being accepted.
Previous winners
Previous winners have included Bayer, Cadbury Schweppes, Invensys, Linde and Rexam
2007 winners
2006 winners
2005 winners
2004 winners
2003 winners
2002 winners
2001 winners
2000 winners
1999 winners
1998 winners
