Each year, these awards honor the firms and deals that stood out among their peers in the US securitization industry. This year, they were expanded to recognize innovation in structured finance, with awards given for Most Innovative Securitization Deal of the Year and Most Innovative Securitization Bank of the Year. Categories for research and trading teams of the year were also added.
The survey this year broke a record for these awards, collecting nearly 1,100 responses, up by 300 from 2018.
GlobalCapital would like to congratulate all of the winners, and thank everyone who took the time to vote and carefully consider their choices, so that we can be confident that these awards are a true benchmark for performance in US securitization.
Please see below for the full list of this year's award winners and nominees.
Editorial Awards
Most Innovative Securitization Deal of the Year - Goldman Sachs, Vanderbilt University Trademark Royalty Securitization
Most Innovative Securitization Bank of the Year - Guggenheim
Polled Awards
Best of the Year
· Accounting Firm
- Deloitte (winner)
- EY
- PwC
· Law Firm
- Morgan Lewis (winner)
- Clifford Chance
- Sidley Austin
· Trustee
- Wilmington Trust (winner)
- US Bank
- Wells Fargo
· Bank
- Credit Suisse (winer)
- Wells Fargo
- JP Morgan
· Issuer
- Fannie Mae (winner)
- LendingClub
- Marlette Funding
· Research Team
- Kroll Bond Rating Agency (winner)
- DBRS
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch
· ABS Trading Desk
- Citi (winner)
- Barclays
- Goldman Sachs
· CLO Trading Desk
- Morgan Stanley (winner)
- Goldman Sachs
- Credit Suisse
· Data Provider
- Finsight (winner)
- Moody's Analytics
- T-REX
· Investor
- MetLife (winner)
- Vanguard
- Loomis Sayles
RMBS Awards
· Accounting Firm
- Deloitte (winner)
- PwC
- EY
· Law Firm
- Morgan Lewis (winner)
- Clifford Chance
- Cadwalader
· Bank
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch (winner)
- Wells Fargo
- JP Morgan
· Issuer
- Redwood Trust (winner)
- Fannie Mae
- Freddie Mac
· Deal
- STACR 2018-HRP1 - Freddie Mac, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi (winner)
- JPMMT 2018-LTV1 - JP Morgan
- CAS 2018-R07 - Fannie Mae, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, Nomura
CMBS Awards
· Accounting Firm
- Deloitte (winner)
- PwC
- EY
· Law Firm
- Sidley Austin (winner)
- Cadwalader
- Dechert
· Bank
- Credit Suisse (winner)
- UBS
- Wells Fargo
· Issuer
- Wells Fargo (winner)
- Goldman Sachs
- Fannie Mae
· Deal
- CSWF 2018-TOP - Credit Suisse (winner)
- BANK 2018-BN13 - Wells Fargo
- FNA 2018-M2 - Fannie Mae, Morgan Stanley, Amherst Pierpont, Goldman Sachs
ABS Awards
· Accounting Firm
- Deloitte (winner)
- PwC
- EY
· Law Firm
- Mayer Brown (winner)
- Dechert
- Katten
· Bank
- JP Morgan (winner)
- Barclays
- Credit Suisse
· Issuer
- Santander Consumer USA (winner)
- Marlette Funding
- LendingClub
· Deal
- VZOT 2018-A - Verizon Communications, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citi, TD Securities (winner)
- ACC Trust 2018-1 - American Car Center, Credit Suisse
- MFT 2018-1 - Marlette Funding, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley
Esoteric ABS Awards
· Accounting Firm
- Deloitte (winner)
- KPMG
- EY
· Law Firm
- Kramer Levin (winner)
- Winston & Strawn
- Morgan Lewis
· Bank
- Credit Suisse (winner)
- Barclays
- Guggenheim
· Issuer
- Mosaic (winner)
- Dividend Finance
- CleanFund
· Deal
- CleanFund 2018-1 - CleanFund, Credit Suisse (winner)
- ACER 2018-1 - Ascentium Capital, Credit Suisse, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Dividend Finance - Divided Finance, Credit Suisse
CLO Awards
· Accounting Firm
- Deloitte (winner)
- EY
- PwC
· Law Firm
- Dechert (winner)
- Clifford Chance
- Cadwalader
· Bank
- Morgan Stanley (winner)
- Goldman Sachs
- Jefferies
· Manager
- Credit Suisse Asset Management (winner)
- CIFC
- BlueMountain Capital Management
· Deal
- Barings 2018-III - Barings, Morgan Stanley (winner)
- Zais CLO 8 - Zais Group, Goldman Sachs
- CIFC 2018-1 - CIFC Asset Management, Morgan Stanley