The Goldman Sachs team: Ben Green, Sarika Singh, Elena Paitra, Rob Ritchie (standing) Martin Wiwen-Nilsson
Since the Lehman collapse, selling commercial mortgage-backed securities has not been considered a worthwhile venture. It took some innovative thinking by Goldman Sachs, on behalf of UK supermarket chain Tesco, to prove otherwise. Writer Edward Russell-Walling
The public clamour to cap bankers' bonuses is being acted upon with varying degrees of urgency and strictness by governments and regulators around the world. Writer Edward Russell-Walling
Jean-Baptiste Pons, EADS head of corporate finance and treasury
It is unusual to issue bonds in August, when many investors are on holiday. However, when European aerospace corporation EADS issued paper worth €1bn last month, common logic was defied in style. Writer Edward Russell-Walling
Left to right: Kapil Damani, Mark Gibson, Joshua Luks and Rishi Naik
Despite the bottom falling out of the catastrophe bond market in 2008, the team at BNP Paribas devised a novel way for reinsurer Hannover Re to re-enter the market, with impressive results. Writer Edward Russell-Walling
On a high: Enel chief risk officer Claudio Machetti
The past 24 months have seen Italian energy provider Enel acquire Spanish counterpart Endesa, face threats of a credit downgrade from Standard & Poor's, and launch a successful €8bn rights issue, the largest ever by an Italian company. Writer Edward Russell-Walling
Left to right: Simon Parry-Wingfield and Ben Babcock
HeidelbergCement has successfully restructured the debt accumulated from its Hanson acquisition with the help of Morgan Stanley, who were tasked with Europe's largest-ever stressed refinancing exercise. Writer Edward Russell-Walling
The UK company formed from NTL, Telewest and Virgin has been busy in the corporate bond markets.
Life is returning to the equity-linked markets: Nomura, newly stocked with ex-Lehman staff, intends to make the most of it.
As a rare entrant to the senior markets, with a robust AA rating in its favour, Nordea's inaugural fixed-rate senior issue was a covetable success. Writer Edward Russell-Walling
Merrill Lynch's orchestration of the EDF purchase of British Energy was one of the most complex and drawn-out deals of its kind ever undertaken. Writer Edward Russell-Walling
