Syndicated Loan Awards 2013

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Syndicated Loan Awards 2013
Over the next two pages are the winners of the EuroWeek Syndicated Loans Awards 2013, as voted for by
market participants in a poll that was conducted in November and early December last year. The awards
were announced at EuroWeek’s gala dinner on Wednesday February 12, at London’s Guildhall.
Best arranger of
Spanish loans
1st Santander
2nd BBVA
Best arranger of
French loans
1st BNP Paribas
2nd Société Générale
3rd Crédit Agricole
4th Natixis
Best arranger of
Nordic loans
1st Nordea
2nd SEB
3rd DNB
4th Pohjola
5th Svenska Handelsbank
Best Arranger of
German loans
Best arranger of
Italian loans
1st UniCredit
2nd Mediobanca
3rd Intesa Sanpaolo
Best arranger of
Western European loans
1st BNP Paribas
2nd Credit Suisse
3rd Deutsche Bank
4th JP Morgan
Best arranger of
project finance loans
1st Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
2nd Sumitomo Mitsui
Banking Corporation
3rd BNP Paribas
4th UniCredit
1st Commerzbank
2nd Deutsche Bank
3rd UniCredit
Best arranger of UK
loans
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Lloyds Bank
Barclays
RBS
HSBC
Best arrange of trade
finance loans
1st Deutsche Bank
2nd BNP Paribas
3rd ING
4th ABN Amro
Loan house of the year
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th JP Morgan
Credit Suisse
BNP Paribas
HSBC
Bank of America
Merrill Lynch
Commerzbank
Barclays
Best arranger of
African loans
1st Standard Chartered
2nd Standard Bank
Best arranger of loans
in the Middle East
1st Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
2nd HSBC
3rd Citi
4th Emirates NBD
Best arranger of loans
in Russia
1st ING
2nd Société Générale
3rd VTB Bank
4th Commerzbank
5th Sberbank
6th Citi
Best arranger of loans
in Turkey
1st Bank of America
Merrill Lynch
2nd= Citi
2nd= Garanti Bankasi
Best arranger of loans
in central and eastern
Europe
1st UniCredit
2nd Raiffeisen Bank Int
3rd Société Générale
Best arranger of
mid-cap loans
Best arranger of
SchuldscheinE
Best institutional
investor in senior loans
1st 3i Group
2nd= Alcentra
2nd= Babson
4th M&G
Best mezzanine investor
1st Mezzvest
2nd Park Square
3rd Highbridge
4th ICG
5th Partners Group
Best arranger of
M&A loans
1st JP Morgan
2nd Deutsche Bank
3rd Goldman Sachs
4th Bank of America
Merrill Lynch
Most impressive borrowers
Most impressive TMT
borrower
1st Virgin Media
2nd Liberty Global
3rd Numericable
Most impressive auto
and transport borrower
1st Daimler
2ndContinental
3rd Fiat
4th Schaeffler
Most impressive power
and utility borrower
1st E.On
2nd Enel
3rd Gas Natural
4th EDF
Most impressive
consumer and retail
borrower
1st Douglas
2nd B&M
3rd Rewe
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Most impressive
industrial borrower
1st Siemens
2nd Schaeffler
3rd Ineos
4th= Ahsell
4th= Ister
Most impressive natural
resources borrower
(including commodities, oil,
gas, metals and mining)
1st Glencore Xstrata
2nd Rosneft
3rd Gold Fields
4th Ocean Rig
1st Commerzbank
2nd LBBW
3rd Helaba
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Best arranger of
leveraged loans
Best private equity
house
1st 2nd 3rd 4th CVC
Advent
KKR
Charter House
Best distressed
loan investor
1st Oaktree
2nd Centrebridge
3rd Davidson Kempner
Best law firm
1st Linklaters
2nd Clifford Chance
3rd Latham & Watkins
4th Freshfields
5th Allen & Overy
Lloyds Bank
Commerzbank
Société Générale
Barclays
1st Credit Suisse
2nd Deutsche Bank
3rd JP Morgan
4th BNP Paribas
Best loan
restructuring house
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Houlihan Lokey
Jeffries
Rothschild
Lazard
Best secondary loans
house
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Credit Suisse
JP Morgan
Citi
Bank of America
Merrill Lynch
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Deal of the year
3
Large-cap leveraged loan of the year
1st Virgin Media
$4.8bn February 2013
1st Ista
€1.45bn May 2013
1st Skrill
€305m October 2013
2nd DE Master Blenders
€3.3bn June 2013
2nd DE Master Blenders
€3.3bn June 2013
2nd Campbell Europe
€320m October 2013
3rd
3rd Virgin Media
$4.8bn February 2013
3rd Chesapeake
£340m September 2013
Glencore Xtrata
Xstrata $17.3bn June 2013
Best project finance loan
1st Mid-cap leveraged loan of the year
Thameslink
£1.6bn September 2013
French deal of the year
Best transatlantic leveraged loan
1st Schneider Electric
£2.56bn Oct 2013
1st Virgin Media
$4.8bn Feb 2013
2nd Open Grid Europe
€2.75bn August 2013
2nd OGF
€635m Aug 2013
2nd Springer Science+Business Media
$2.6bn July 2013
3rd Emirates Aluminium
$3.4bn March 2013
3rd Alcatel-Lucent
$2.13bn Dec 2012
3rd CeramTec
$1bn July 2013
Spanish deal of the year
German deal of the year
1st Ista
€1.45bn May 2013
2nd Daimler
€9bn September 2013
3rd Siemens
$3bn September 2013
UK deal of the year
1st Gas Natural
€2.25bn October 2013
1st Virgin Media
$4.8bn February 2013
2nd Iberdrola
€3bn May 2013
2nd Rio Tinto
£7.5bn Nov2013
3rd Mivisa
€145m April 2013
3rd AA
£1.77bn Aug 2013
Italian deal of the year
African deal of the year
Benelux deal of the year
1st DE Master Blenders
€3.3bn June 2013
1st Ghana Cocobod
$1.2bn Sept 2013
1st Fiat
€2.1bn July 2013
2nd Royal Boskalis Westminster
€1.3bn January 2013
3rd Sonangol
$2.5bn Sept 2013
2nd Enel
€9.44bn February 2013
3rd Mediq
€740m February 2013
3rd Aspen Pharmacare
$2bn Oct 2013
3rd Marelli Motori
€212m July 2013
Nordic deal of the year
Middle Eastern deal of the year
Russian deal of the year
1st Scandlines
€875m Nov 2013
1st Kufpec
€750m July 2013
1st Rosneft
$31bn February 2013
2nd Norsk Hydro
$1.7bn Nov 2013
2nd ICD
$2.55bn June 2013
2nd Norilsk Nickel
$2.35bn September 2013
3rd Nokia
€1.2bn July 2013
3rd Aabar
$2.5bn April 2013
3rd Rosneft/Vitol
$8.3bn March 2013
Central and eastern Europe deal of the year
1st Slovak Gas Holding
€1.5bn Jan 2013
2nd Net4Gas
$1.5bn March 2013
3rd Metinvest
€300m November 2013
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Turkish deal of the year
1st Oger Telekom
$4.75bn May 2013
2nd Akbank
$1.42bn August 2013
3rd Garanti Bankasi
$1.4bn May 2013
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