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Best Investment Banks 2011: Best Legal Advisers

Best Legal Advisers Global Skadden Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, which operates under the brand name Skadden, was the number-one legal adviser on global mergers and acquisitions announced in 2010, according to Thomson Reuters. Skadden advised on 227 deals ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Country Winners

Country Winners North America Canada Scotia Capital Scotia Capital is the global corporate and investment banking and capital markets arm of Scotiabank, the most international bank in Canada. Scotia Capital handled the three largest debt financings in Canada in 2010, ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Deals Of The Year

Deals of the Year Best Equity Deal: Petrobras $70 Billion Stock Sale Lead manager: Banco Bradesco BBI Global bookrunners: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Santander, Morgan Stanley and Itaú BBA. The $70 billion add-on equity offering on September ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Global Winners

Global Winners Best Investment Bank Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s broad-based strength in equity underwriting and financial advisory work on mergers and acquisitions worldwide is unparalleled. The investment bank’s only relative weakness is in the fixed-income area, which it is working ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Regional Winners

Regional Winners North America Best Investment Bank Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s strengths in the equity and M&A; advisory businesses make it the clear leader in North American investment banking. Not only did it lead General Motors’ $18.1 billion initial public ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: PE Firms Cash Out With IPOs

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Nashville, Tennessee–based hospital operator HCA Holdings sold more shares than planned in its initial public offering in March, and it sold them at the high end of the expected price ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Energy And Financials Heat Up

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The energy and financial services sectors were expected to be fertile ground for mergers and acquisitions in 2011, and so far they are living up to those expectations. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Mercosur Turns 20 And Ruffles EU Feathers

MILESTONES: MERCOSUR By Antonio Guerrero The Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Argentine beef exports could threaten Europe's farmer The world’s third largest trade bloc, after the EU and Nafta, comprises ...

News

US: Nuclear Energy Central To Policy

MILESTONES: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt Panic-stricken residents of Western US states cleared pharmacy shelves of potassium iodide tablets last month, amid fears that radiation from Japan’s nuclear crisis could reach the West Coast. Obama: No plans ...

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WORLD’S BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2011 IN ASIA

Global Finance names the World’s Best Emerging Market Banks 2011 in Asia NEW YORK, March 24, 2011 Global Finance magazine...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM: Bovespa Eyes Other BRIC Markets

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Anita Hawser As the world’s key stock exchanges engage in a flurry of mergers aimed at cutting costs and boosting efficiency, Brazil’s BM&F; Bovespa—the fourth largest exchange operator in the world—is looking to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Asia’s Liquidity Glut

ASIA'S LIQUIDITY SURPLUS: TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING? By Shu-Ching Jean Chen Top finance officials in Asia are eager to mitigate the debilitating effects of hot money flooding to the region. Corporations are less concerned . ...