The FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2011 are the industry standard for recognising excellence in Asian finance.
We are pleased to invite Asia’s leading financial institutions to submit for this year’s awards. Deadline for submissions is Tuesday, November 1, 2011. All submissions should be emailed to [email protected] or sent in hard copy form to: FinanceAsia Awards, 23/F, The Centrium, 60 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong.
Deals that occur after this submission date can be included as supplements up until the final decisions are announced in mid-December on financeasia.com.
Please contact Lara Wozniak to book time to present pitches. We will attend pitches from November 14 through November 30.
Winners of the awards will be invited to attend our annual gala black-tie dinner.
Banks wishing to submit for this year’s awards should look at the below categories, which are divided into House awards and Deal awards. Please note that we may, depending on the level of activity during the year, ultimately decide not to award winners in some of the categories. For deal awards, please list all the bookrunners or advisers that worked on the deal, not just your own bank.
- Submissions should not include deals in Japan and Australia, which are considered separately.
- The period under consideration for these awards is January 1, 2011 to the date on which we finally announce the awards in mid-December.
- We use Dealogic data for our decisions. If you choose to use another league table provider please also include Dealogic’s league table and reconcile the differences. We do not give full-credit for self-led deals.
- Please submit only one deal award per country
House Awards
BEST BANK
This award recognises the bank that has achieved the most, both in the field of commercial and investment banking. Our final decision includes how well the respective banks have done in various of the other below categories.
BEST COMMERCIAL BANK
This award is based on the strength of the franchise, both corporate and retail, as well as a combination of other awards such as best cash management bank, best trade finance bank and so forth.
BEST INVESTMENT BANK
Presentations should demonstrate the bank’s successes across products and geographies. Banks will also be judged on how they have used their balance sheets, both to earn returns and to close deals for their clients.
BEST EQUITY HOUSE
This award is designed to reward the bank that has done the most in equity capital markets across the region during the year. It is a primary market, not secondary market award. This award includes IPOs, follow-ons and equity-linked transactions. Aftermarket performance will be taken into consideration, as will deals that were launched but never completed or had to be re-launched at a later date.
BEST IPO HOUSE
This award recognises the house that stood out in 2011 by leading the IPO market.
BEST MID-CAP EQUITY HOUSE
This award is designed to recognise banks focused on equity capital raisings in the range of $100 million to $300 million for companies with a market cap up to $1 billion.
BEST SMALL-CAP EQUITY HOUSE
Houses should demonstrate their expertise in launching and sponsoring IPOs for small-cap companies (IPOs that are typically $99 million or less). Credit will be given for the number of deals executed plus the aftermarket performance. We feel it is important that houses bring good quality companies to market.
BEST EQUITY-LINKED HOUSE
Volume of deals, innovation, variety and geographical diversity, as well as after-market performance will all be considered in giving this award.
BEST INTERNATIONAL BOND HOUSE
This award is focused on houses raising international debt for Asian borrowers in dollars, euro and yen. It looks at the overall best house in investment-grade and non-investment grade issuance.
BEST SOVEREIGN BOND HOUSE
This award is designed to reward the house that has brought the most successful sovereign bond issues to market.
BEST LOCAL CURRENCY BOND HOUSE
Short-listed banks will be contacted directly with the methodology for pitching for this award.
BEST HIGH YIELD BOND HOUSE
This award is designed to reward the house that has brought the most successful non-investment grade international issues to market.
BEST M&A HOUSE
The best M&A house will have been involved in the key deals this year.
Credit will be given to houses that have initiated market-defining transactions. Conversely, failed transactions will be judged negatively. The ability to show a breadth of transactions across sectors and countries will count favourably. Pitches should specify clearly the announced date of transactions and the close date. Only completed transactions will be given full credit.
BEST ISLAMIC FINANCE HOUSE
This award recognises the house that has been most active and innovative in bringing Islamic issues to market.
BEST EQUITY BROKERAGE HOUSE
Houses that wish to win this award will produce testimonials from major institutional clients praising their service. Results of external polls and market data may be submitted also. This award will take into account which firm is the preferred counterparty for international investors.
BEST FIG HOUSE
Houses must demonstrate their M&A and fund-raising activities for financial institutions.
BEST REAL ESTATE HOUSE
Banks should show their excellence in advisory services to clients, their ability to price and time deals to the best advantage of their clients as well as their geographical diversity. Being able to generate repeat business will also be considered a plus.
BEST TMT HOUSE
Banks should demonstrate the depth and quality of their telecoms-media-tech teams and the deals they have executed.
BEST GIG HOUSE
General industries includes natural resources companies, energy, consumer retail etc. We broadly define general industries as anything that doesn’t get covered in real estate, FIG and TMT. Banks should demonstrate the depth and quality of their GIG teams and the deals they have executed.
BEST LAW FIRM
Please submit a comprehensive list of deals you worked on during the year, with a minimum transaction value of $100 million. The only information we need for each deal is the name of the matter, the completion date, the client(s) and the transaction value. Deals should be submitted by category: debt (including financings), equity or M&A/private equity.
BEST RENMINBI HOUSE
This award recognises the house that has been most active in the offshore renminbi market
BORROWER OF THE YEAR
Banks should feel free to suggest candidates they have worked with. However, the final decision is based on qualitative and quantitative factors that the editors will decide.
BEST CASH MANAGEMENT BANK
Banks will be contacted directly with a list of questions to help with their pitch.
BEST TRADE FINANCE BANK
Banks will be contacted directly with a list of questions to help with their pitch.
BEST PRIVATE BANK
This will be based on a case study and private banks will be contacted directly to pitch.
Deals of the Year
DEAL OF THE YEAR (This can be a transaction or an investment)
BEST EQUITY DEAL
BEST IPO
BEST SECONDARY OFFERING
BEST EQUITY-LINKED DEAL
BEST MID-CAP EQUITY DEAL (Between $100 million and $300 million, for companies with a market cap up to $1 billion)
BEST SMALL-CAP EQUITY DEAL ($99 million or less)
BEST M&A DEAL (Only completed transactions will be considered)
BEST CROSS-BORDER M&A DEAL (Only completed transactions will be considered)
BEST DOMESTIC M&A DEAL (Only completed transactions will be considered)
BEST INVESTMENT GRADE BOND
BEST HIGH YIELD BOND
BEST ISLAMIC FINANCING
BEST LOCAL CURRENCY BOND
BEST RENMINBI (OFFSHORE) OFFERING
BEST SOVEREIGN BOND
BEST LEVERAGED FINANCING
BEST PRIVATE EQUITY DEAL
BEST CASH MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
BEST TRADE FINANCE SOLUTION
Country Deal Awards
To recognise the many excellent transactions that are often over-shadowed by more high-profile deals, we also give awards to the best deal from each country in the region. These can be equity, debt or M&A deals, but are distinguished by being the most significant deals from that country since January 2011. If too few transactions have been completed to make an accurate decision, we reserve the right not to award a winner for that particular country.
The countries we will include are: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
