For the first time, The Banker presents investment banking awards separately from our long-established country awards, reflecting the huge success and growth of these accolades. We have also introduced many new categories to take account of the important changes in the capital markets. Congratulations to all our winners and thank you to everyone who participated.
THE JUDGES:
This year, our judging process was spread over three days, with three panels of judges
Sir David Arculus
Chairman of O2 and a non-executive director of Barclays plc. Previous roles have included group managing director of emap, chief operating officer of United News and Media, chairman of Severn Trent plc and chairman of Earls Court and Olympia Ltd. In his early years at emap, Sir David launched many new magazines, including Smash Hits, the 1970s pop-song magazine that went from a circulation of 10,000 to one million within a year, helping to transform the company from a regional newspaper group into an extensive publishing house.
Brian Caplen
editor, The Banker
Alison Carnwath
Has a broad financial background encompassing J Henry Schroder, Phoenix and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, accountants Peat Marwick Mitchell and KPMG, and Lloyds Bank International. She is a non-executive director at Land Securities, Man Group and Gallaher and Friends Provident. She joined engineering firm Vitec as a non-executive director in 1996 and was its chairman from 1999 to 2004.
Jeremy Coller
Chief executive of Coller Capital. With a management sciences degree from Manchester University and a masters in philosophy from Sussex University, he entered private equity while at ICI’s pension fund in the 1980s. In 1990, he struck out to form Coller Capital. In 2002, he raised €2.6bn for the world’s largest private equity secondaries fund. He has more than 150 institutional investors and interests in 190 third-party private equity funds.
Philippe Costelettos
Partner and European managing director at private equity firm Texas Pacific Group. He was involved in the Baroness Retail consortium that took the unorthodox step of getting target Debenhams to agree to pay it a £6m inducement fee to prepare a bid, even though the UK retailer was in talks with a rival consortium. Mr Costelettos joined Texas Pacific in 2003, after several years at European private equity group Investcorp and earlier stints at JPMorgan’s private equity business and Morgan Stanley.
Benoit d’Angelin
A managing director at Centaurus Capital Limited. He was co-head of investment banking at Lehman Brothers in Europe, before leaving in March 2006. He was also a member of Lehman Brothers European executive committee, a member of the investment banking global executive committee and of the global management committee of Lehman Brothers. Before taking up this role in June 2000, he was head of European debt capital markets. He joined Lehman Brothers in Paris in 1994 as head of French capital markets. Previously, he was at BNP/Paribas from 1987 until December 1993.
James Eedes
economics editor and Africa specialist, The Banker
Geraldine Lambe
capital markets and investment banking editor, The Banker
Silvia Pavoni
special projects editor, The Banker
Andrew Pisker
Until recently CEO of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Between 2002 (when he was appointed CEO) and 2003, he oversaw a turnaround of about €1bn in the bank’s fortunes. He came to prominence at Lehman Brothers, where he was the firm’s youngest managing director at that time, and later became a member of Lehman Brothers’ European executive committee. After a stint at Paribas, where he became deputy head of fixed income, he moved to Dresdner in 2000 to head debt capital markets. He was appointed to the board after the bank’s acquisition of Wasserstein Perella in 2001, and became chief executive the following year, after insurer Allianz acquired the bank.
Thomas Pütter
Chief executive at Allianz Capital Partners. He was described by Business Week seven years ago as a “self-styled young Turk” when he quit Goldman Sachs to set up a private equity unit at Allianz with $2bn to invest. Allianz has since grown to be one of the major private equity players in Europe. Mr Pütter is acting chairman of the BVK, Germany’s private equity and venture capital association.
David Rough
Non-executive deputy chairman at Xstrata, a non-executive director of emap, Land Securities, BBA and Mithras Investment Trust. From 1989 to 2000, he was executive director and chief investment officer at Legal & General, the insurer. Mr Rough became non-executive deputy chairman of Xstrata in 2002 and a non-executive director of emap and Land Securities in the same year. He joined BBA, the aviation and materials technology group, in the same capacity in 1998 and has performed a similar role in the Mithras Investment Trust since 1994. He was a non-executive director of the Legal & General UK Select Investment Trust from 1991 to 2001 and of Group Trust from 1994 to 2001.
Peter StePHens
Chairman of GETECH plc. He cut his teeth in the financial realm, where he was at one time head of European equities sales at Salomon Brothers and Credit Lyonnais. Since 2001, he has been working as a venture capitalist. He has a MA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and qualified as a barrister in 1978. He is a founding shareholder of Desire Petroleum plc, and is a non-executive director of Tristel plc, a company quoted on AIM.
Global investment bank of the year: Goldman Sachs Investment bank of the year/Americas: Goldman Sachs
Investment bank of the year/Asia-Pacific: Citigroup
Investment bank of the year/Europe, Middle East and Africa: Deutsche Bank
Chief information officer of the year Bank of the Year for bond trading: JPMorgan
Bank of the Year for Capital Raising: Goldman Sachs
Bank of the Year for Commodities: Morgan Stanley
Bank of the Year for Convertible Bonds: Citigroup
Bank of the Year for Covered Bonds: Barclays Capital
Bank of the Year for Credit Derivatives: Lehman Brothers
Bank of the Year for Emissions Trading: Dresdner Kleinwort
Bank of the Year for Equity Derivatives: Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking
Bank of the Year for Equity Trading: Goldman Sachs
Best Bank for FIG/ Asset and Liability Management: Goldman Sachs
Bank of the year for FX: Citigroup
Bank of the year for high yield bonds: Deutsche Bank
Bank of the Year for Hybrid Capital: Merrill Lynch
Bank of the year for interest rate derivatives: BNP Paribas
Bank of the Year for Investment Grade Bonds: JPMorgan
Best Bank of the Year for IPOs: Credit Suisse
Bank of the Year for Islamic Investment Banking: Commerce International Merchant Bankers Islamic
Bank of the Year for Leveraged Finance: Deutsche Bank
Bank of the year for Loans: Citigroup
Bank of the year for M&A: Goldman Sachs
Bank of the year for Prime Brokerage: Deutsche Bank
Bank of the Year for Real Estate Finance: Citigroup
Bank of the Year for Risk Advisory: Deutsche Bank
Bank of the year for Securitisation: Royal Bank of Scotland
Bank of the year for Trade & project Finance: Royal Bank of Scotland
