Thomson Reuters today announced that DealWatch, IFR’s Japanese language sister news service covering the Japanese capital markets, has named Nomura Securities ’House of the Year’ for 2011. Takeda Pharmaceutical wins the coveted ’Issuer of the Year’ award.
The annual DealWatch Awards were established in 1995 with the aim of rewarding excellence and innovation in Japan’s capital markets over the course of a financial year. Since then, they have developed to become the industry standard in recognizing achievement in Japan’s investment banking community.
DealWatch Awards 2011 have seven categories of awards including Overall, Straight Bond, Local Government Bond, Samurai Bond, ABS, Equity-linked Bond and Equity.
Screening starts with a questionnaire sent to underwriting houses with lead managers and/or syndication experience, and institutional investors. Suitable candidates are then selected based on public transactions completed within the past fiscal year. Underwriting houses have the opportunity to pitch their deals if they wish to do so. Finally, DealWatch editors carefully screen the transactions and select winners based on the judgment criteria above.
The major award winners will be presented the trophies at the annual DealWatch Gala Awards Dinner, which takes place at the Grand Hyatt in Tokyo on Thursday, May 17 2012. A complete list of all winners of DealWatch Awards 2011 is attached below.
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DealWatch Awards 2011 – List of Winners
Overall
Issuer of the Year
-Takeda Pharmaceutical
House of the Year
-Nomura Securities
Straight Bond
Straight Bond Issuer of the Year
-Mitsubishi Corporation
Straight Bond House of the Year
-Nomura Securities
Straight Bond of the Year
-NISSAN MOTOR Series 54 Unsecured Straight Bonds
(SMBC Nikko Securities/ Mizuho Securities/ Citigroup Global Markets Japan)
Debut Debt Deal of the Year
- ITO EN Series 1 Unsecured Straight Bonds
(Nomura Securities)
Innovative Debt Deal of the Year
-Ibaraki Prefecture Eco Frontier Revenue Trust
(Goldman Sachs Japan)
Local Government Bond
Local Government Bond Issuer of the Year
-Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Local Government Bond House of the Year
-Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities
Local Government Bond of the Year
-Japanese Joint Local Government Bond 10 Year Series 100
(Mizuho Corporate Bank/ Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities/
Merrill Lynch Japan Securities)
Samurai Bond
Samurai Bond Issuer of the Year
-Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank
Samurai Bond House of the Year
-Mizuho Securities
Samurai Bond of the Year
-The Export-Import Bank of Korea Samurai Bonds Series 6
(Citigroup Global Markets Japan/ Daiwa Securities Capital Markets/
Merrill Lynch Japan Securities/ Mizuho Securities)
-The Export-Import Bank of Korea Samurai Bonds Series 7
(Citigroup Global Markets Japan/ Daiwa Securities Capital Markets/
Merrill Lynch Japan Securities/ Mizuho Securities)
-The Export-Import Bank of Korea Samurai Bonds Series 8
(Citigroup Global Markets Japan / Daiwa Securities Capital Markets/
Merrill Lynch Japan Securities/ Mizuho Securities)
ABS
Asset-backed Securities House of the Year
-Nomura Securities
Asset-backed Securities Deal of the Year
-Loan Claim Collateralized #48 Japan Housing Finance Mortgage-backed Securities
(Nomura Securities/ Mizuho Securities/ Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities)
Equity-linked Bond
Equity-linked Bond of the Year
-KDDI CORPORATION Zero Coupon Convertible Bonds due 2015
(Daiwa Capital Markets Europe)
Equity
Equity Issuer of the Year
-NEXON
Equity House of the Year
-Nomura Securities
Equity Deal of the Year
-TAIHEIYO CEMENT CORPORATION
(Mizuho Securities/ SMBC Nikko Securities)
IPO of the Year
-Livesense
(Daiwa Securities Capital Markets)
J-REIT of the Year
-Industrial & Infrastructure Fund Investment Corporation
(Nomura Securities/ SMBC Nikko Securities/ Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities)
Innovative Equity Deal of the Year
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