Credit Suisse First Boston acted as lead manager on five consolidation loan offerings issued by SLM Student Loan Trust

Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan were co-leaders of Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau’s E5bn convertible bond into Deutsche Telekom shares

Nomura arranged a ticket receivables securitisation for Korean Air Lines

Merrill Lynch and UBS acted as bookrunners on Brazil’s $1bn global issue

HSBC, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Lloyds TSB and RBS were mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners for Cadbury Schweppes’ $6.1bn syndicated revolving credit facilities

Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and UBS Warburg were mandated as lead advisers or managers to Chunghwa Telecom $1.58bn ADR IPO

Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and UBS were joint global co-ordinators for Allianz AG’s E4.5bn rights issue

Credit Suisse First Boston advised General Electric (GE)/NBC in the acquisition of Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE) from Vivendi Universal in a transaction that values VUE at $14bn

JP Morgan advised Olivetti on its merger with Telecom Italia, which was advised by Lazard and Goldman Sachs

Merrill Lynch, United Financial Group and Morgan Stanley were lead advisers to BP in its $6.15bn acquisition of a 50% stake in TNK/Sidanco