The results will be announced at our Fourth ECM Awards Dinner on Tuesday March 19 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.
Since their relaunch in 2015, GlobalCapital’s Awards have been very well received by the market. Our dinners in the past three years have been attended by C-suite executives from issuers, company founders, investors and senior ECM bankers from all the leading ECM banks and other market participants.
As before, the 2018 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 2018. 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 25, by following this link:
https://www.surveygizmo.eu/s3/90121200/GlobalCapital-ECM-Awards-Poll-2018
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 2018, we would be very happy to talk to you about it, either face to face or by phone. About a dozen banks did so last year. If you would like to do this, please just contact me at sam.kerr@globalcapital.com. We would like to complete any such conversations by the end of January.
For further information about attending 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.
List of Award categories
Best Non-Bank 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
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 (including rights issues and follow-ons)
Most innovative ECM deal
Best fixed price IPO
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
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 emerging markets (includes CEE, Middle East and Africa)
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
Structured equity deal of the year (to be chosen editorially - this Award is intended to recognise complex transactions that do not consist only of, or may not involve at all, a public ECM transaction)