Awards for Excellence 2012: Best Equity House

The firm has led successful IPOs around the world, done complex, cross-border equity-linked deals and held its nerve in the darkest hour for bank rights issues.

Awards for Excellence 2012

Best Equity House: Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Also nominated: Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank

One year ago, investors, bankers and issuers in the equity capital markets were engaged in an intense and unusually public debate about how to fix the broken mechanism for initial public offerings, after so many had failed, been pulled or left investors nursing losses in 2011.

Then the worst thing possible happened. Market risk aversion completely closed the capital markets and a valuable debate petered out.

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