Goldman unveils structured approach to debt business

Cordeiro, one of the most well known faces in the Euromarkets and a Goldman partner since 1992 became a vice-Chairman of Asia last July. Over the course of his four year tenure, Goldman used its bulge bracket status to pursue the large sovereign mandates which dominated issuance from the region. It was an approach that resulted in deals for China, the Philippines and arguably most importantly of all the Republic of Korea, whose $4 billion global of April 1998 still ranks as Asia's largest bond offering and marked a key test of the region's ability to fund itself out of crisis.