FinanceAsia held its sixth annual awards dinner in Sydney on Tuesday evening to honour the winners of the 2008 Annual Achievement Awards for Australia and New Zealand. The event was held at the magazine's signature venue, the harbourkitchen&bar restaurant at the Park Hyatt Hotel.
More than 130 issuers, bankers and service providers attended the dinner, including executives from Primary Health Care, Westfield, Macquarie Leasing and NCIG. Award winners gave a short speech when receiving their plaques and the consensus was that 2008 was clearly a traumatic year for the markets. Everyone is hopeful that 2009 will be less so.
The Credit Suisse table picked up a case of wine for winning the trivia quiz, and several lucky attendees walked away with door prizes including Peter Christie from CBA and Jamie Garis from Caliburn Partnership.
Team Citi gathers by the shores of Sydney harbour
Campbell Wratt of Dexia (right) mingles during pre-dinner drinks
Paul Masi of Merrill and Jeff Emmanuel of UBS
Macquarie executives enjoy a cocktail
Jeff Emmanuel and David Wilson of UBS
Natalie Vanstone of J.P. Morgan and Rob Whitfield of Westpac
Ian Taylor, Kevin Roche and Anthony Miller of Goldman Sachs JBWere
Angelique Tan and John Landry (centre) accept the Best Foreign Commercial Bank award for Citi
Adrian Bentley (centre) accepts the Best Securitisation House award for Macquarie
Best Issuer of the Year, Primary Healthcare. Andrew Duff accepts the award.
Steve Hawkins of UBS (centre) accepts the award for Best Brokerage House
Robert Milliner of Mallesons (centre) accepts the Best Financial Law Firm award
Paul Masi of Merrill (centre) accepts the award for Best Secondary Offering
Lloyd Thomas of Macquarie Leasing (2nd from left) and bankers accept for the Best Securitisation Deal
Jason Wrobel, Sarah Hofman and Anthony Miller accept the award for Best New Zealand Deal
Racking up the awards -- Macquarie, J.P. Morgan and RBS celebrate
Lloyd Thomas and Adrian Bentley share a laugh during pre-dinner drinks
Christina Tonkin of ANZ (centre) accepts the Best Local Commercial Bank award
Ron Malek of Caliburn Partnership (centre) accepts the Best M&A House award
