emeafinance Awards

emeafinance's 2008 awards sought to recognise the best banks, teams, and deals in the EMEA region in 2007. The winners are:

Best EMEA investment bank: Deutsche Bank

M&A

Best EMEA M&A house: JP Morgan

Best M&A deal in Africa: Gold Fields’ acquisition of South Deep mine (JP Morgan)

Best M&A deal in Middle East: Leighton Holding’s acquisition of Al Habtoor (EFG Hermes)

Best M&A deal in CEE: UES (Alfa Bank, Merrill Lynch)

Best EMEA cross-border M&A: Aston Martin (WestLB, Jefferies, Investment Dar)

Best EMEA privatisation: MAV Cargo (UniCredit Group)

Fixed income

Best EMEA bond house: Deutsche Bank

Best EMEA local currency bond house: Standard Bank

Best EMEA samurai bond house: Daiwa Securities SMBC

Most innovative bond deal / Best local currency: JAFZ sukuk (Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, Dubai Islamic Bank, Lehman Brothers)

Best EMEA securitisation deal: Eurokommerz (Deutsche Bank, VTB)

Best EMEA sovereign bond: Ghana (Citi, UBS)

Best EMEA corporate borrower: Gazprom

Best sovereign borrower: Egypt

Equity

Best EMEA equity house: Renaissance Capital

Best CEE equity house: UniCredit Group

Best African equity house: JP Morgan

Best Middle East equity house: Samba Capital

Deal of the year: DP World IPO (Deutsche Bank)  

Best IPO in the CIS: ENRC (Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, ABN Amro, Morgan Stanley)

Best IPO in the Middle East: Talaat Mostafa Group (HSBC, EFG Hermes)

Best IPO in Africa: Guaranty Trust Bank (JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley)

Best EMEA secondary offering: Sberbank (JP Morgan, Credit Suisse)

Depository receipts

Best EMEA depository receipt house: Bank of New York Mellon

Best depository receipt programme: VTB (Bank of New York Mellon)

Private equity

Best EMEA private equity house: Abraaj Capital

Best private equity house in Africa: Citadel Capital

Global private equity funds, Middle East, runner up: Global Investment House

Best private equity house in CEE: Mid Europa

Best new private equity house in EMEA: Gulf Capital

Syndicated loans

Best EMEA syndicated loan house: Standard Bank

Islamic finance

Best Islamic finance house: Deutsche Bank

Best Islamic bond house: Barclays Capital