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Name of issuer: Bovespa Holding Size of issue: R$5.8 billion ($3.66bln), including greenshoe Pricing date: October 24, 2007 Joint bookrunners: Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse

For Brazil, 2007 was the year of the IPO boom. In the first seven months of the year there were 48 issues worth R$70 billion, and in the last five months two of the biggest IPOs ever out of Brazil, and two of the top 10 largest in the world, came to market despite the deteriorating global environment.