Morgan Stanley Named Best Investment Bank in Asia Pacific
For the second year running, two of Asia's leading financial publications, FinanceAsia and The Asset magazine, have named Morgan Stanley as the region's Best Investment Bank.
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For the second year running, two of Asia's leading financial publications, FinanceAsia and The Asset magazine, have named Morgan Stanley as the region's Best Investment Bank.
"Morgan Stanley has delivered an impressively diverse array of business this year - from mid-cap Chinese IPOs to world record beating listings; it has advised on transformational bank M&A as well as critical deals for India inc," FinanceAsia explained. "It has built a balanced business around FIG, TMT and general industries, and it has done repeat client business."
Both magazines also named the Firm as Best Equity House and Best FIG house - third year in a row from FinanceAsia - while IFR Asia nominated Morgan Stanley as the region's Best-Mid Cap Equity House.
The year's stand-out transaction, Deal of the Year according to most publications and IFR's Global IPO of 2005, was the Morgan Stanley-led China Construction Bank US$9.2bon IPO, the world's largest IPO since 2000 and the largest from the region to date. FinanceAsia editors wrote that the deal's "size, valuation and subsequent trading level all go to show what a remarkable feat the bank and its lead managers were able to pull off."
Other Morgan Stanley-advised deal highlights for 2005 include:
- Reliance Industries US$4.8bn restructuring (FinanceAsia - Best India Deal)
- Chunghwa Telecom US$3.1bn offering (The Asset - Best Privatization)
- LG.Philips LCD US$2.2bn offering (The Asset - Best Follow-on)
- ICICI Bank US1.75bn concurrent ADR and domestic share sale (FinanceAsia - Best Follow-on)
- Temasek US$1.75bn bond offering (The Asset - Best Corporate Bond, Best Investment Grade Bond)
According to data released by Thomson Financial on December 13, Morgan Stanley topped the year-end league tables in equity in Asia Pacific ex Japan and Australia. The Thomson numbers indicate total value of initial public offerings and follow-ons that the Firm worked tallied US$8.38bn. Equity capital markets league tables are pro-rated according to number of book runners on a transaction.
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