Linklaters tops Bloomberg 2008 EMEA Capital Markets tables
06 January 2009
Linklaters has secured the most top rankings of any law firm in Bloomberg’s league table of legal advisors for 2008, released on 2 January 2009.
Linklaters ranks first in the following categories by both total deal value and number of deals:
- EMEA Equity IPO Manager Advisers
- EMEA Equity & Equity Linked Issuer Advisers
- EMEA Equity Linked Issuer Advisers
- EMEA Equity Linked Manager Advisers
- Euromarket High Yield inc-EM Issuer Advisers
- Euromarket High Yield inc-EM Manager Advisers
- Euromarket High Yield ex-EM Manager Advisers
The firm also came top in EMEA Equity & Equity Linked Manager Advisers by deal count.
Carson Welsh, head of equity and debt capital markets at Linklaters, commented:
“We are extremely pleased to have worked on so many capital markets transactions throughout 2008, across the product spectrum. 2008 was a testing year for the markets, but our rankings in both the deal value and volume sections of the tables demonstrate that clients continue to turn to us for advice on their most complex and difficult transactions.”
Deals incorporated in these league tables include advising on the Royal Bank of Scotland’s recapitalisation, Turk Telecom’s US$1.9bn IPO, Centrica’s £2.2bn rights offering and Rio Tinto Finance Ltd’s US$5bn note offering.
For further information, please contact:
Toby Craig on +44 20 7456 4550 or toby.craig@linklaters.com; or Rupert Winlaw on +44 20 7456 3219 or rupert.winlaw@linklaters.com
