Following the success of GlobalCapital’s first two full scale equity capital markets Awards, for 2015 and 2016, we are now deciding the Equity Capital Markets Awards 2017.
The results will be announced at our third annual ECM awards dinner on Tuesday March 20, at One Whitehall Place in London — so please save the date.
GlobalCapital’s ECM Awards are the only comprehensive awards for equity capital markets activity in EMEA. The purpose of the awards is to foster excellence in the market by recognising the issuers, investors, investment banks and other advisers that were most impressive in any one year, and applauding the deals that stood out for success, innovation or importance.
The awards have been very well received by the market in the past two years. Our dinners have been attended by C-suite executives from issuers, company founders, investors and senior ECM bankers from all the leading ECM banks and other participants.
We hope that you will continue to support these awards this year and are excited to participate.
As before, the 2017 Awards comprise:
- The Best Banks, to be chosen by our editorial team
- The Deals of the Year, to be chosen by a poll of market participants
- The Best Non-Bank Market Participants, also chosen in the poll
The poll is now open, and we hope very much that you will vote. It is your chance to directly influence which deals and market players are recognised as the best in 2017. We believe it is a great strength of our Awards that they reflect market opinion in this way.
You can vote online, between now and January 30, by following this link:
https://www.research.net/r/ECMAwards2017
This article is free to view so please feel free to share it, or the link to the survey itself, with your contacts to ask them to vote on last year's best performers. However, it is forbidden to:
- canvass for votes by asking others to vote for you or your deals
- collude with other voters about how to vote
- vote tactically, by deliberately voting for weak candidates
For the Best Bank Awards, we do not require banks to pitch. Our editorial team will decide the winners, considering banks that have pitched and those that have not. But if you would like to engage with us, to tell us what you believe your firm has done well in 2017, we would be very happy to talk to you about it, either face to face or by phone. Over a dozen banks did so last year. If you would like to do this, please just send an email to GlobalCapital's equities editor Sam Kerr at sam.kerr@globalcapital.com.
We would like to complete any such conversations by the end of January.
We would also be very happy to answer any questions you may have about the awards and our selection methodology.
If you would like further information about the awards dinner, please contact Daniel Elton on delton@euromoneyplc.com. He will get in touch with you soon to provide further details about the dinner.
The complete list of Awards categories is as follows. We have added one new category this year: "Best fixed price IPO", to reflect the prevalence of IPOs of such companies as Reits, closed-end funds and Spacs in 2017.
Best Non-Bank Market Participants
(to be chosen by a poll of market participants)
Best equity capital markets adviser
Best law firm for ECM
Best private equity firm at using the equity capital markets
Most influential long-only investor
Most influential hedge fund investor
Most influential equity-linked investor
Deals of the Year
(to be chosen by a poll of market participants)
Equity capital markets deal of the year
IPO of the year
Block trade of the year (includes all accelerated bookbuilds)
Equity-linked bond deal of the year
Privatisation of the year (includes any sale of stock by a government)
IPO of the year under $300m
Technology or biotech IPO of the year
Financial institution ECM deal of the year
Best equity capital raising by a listed company (includes rights issues, follow-on capital raisings etc)
Most innovative ECM deal
Best fixed price IPO (such as Reits and Spacs)
ECM deal of the year in the UK and Ireland
ECM deal of the year in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
ECM deal of the year in France
ECM deal of the year in the Benelux
ECM deal of the year in Italy
ECM deal of the year in Iberia
ECM deal of the year in the Nordic region
ECM deal of the year in CEE (including Greece), Russia and the CIS
ECM deal of the year in Turkey, the Middle East and Africa
Best Banks
(to be chosen by our editorial team)
Equity capital markets bank of the year
IPO bank of the year
Block trade bank of the year (includes all accelerated bookbuilds)
Equity-linked bank of the year
ECM bank of the year for financial institutions
ECM bank of the year for private equity firms
Best bank for privatisations
Best corporate broker
Best bank for small cap ECM
ECM bank of the year in the UK and Ireland
ECM bank of the year in France and the Benelux
ECM bank of the year in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
ECM bank of the year in Italy
ECM bank of the year in Iberia
ECM bank of the year in the Nordic region
ECM bank of the year in CEE (including Greece), the Middle East and Africa
ECM bank of the year for financial institutions
ECM bank of the year for private equity firms
Structured equity deal of the year (this Award is intended to recognise complex transactions that do not consist only of, or may not involve at all, a public ECM transaction)