Thomson Reuters Announces DEALWATCH AWARDS 2013 Winners
Suntory Beverage & Food wins Issuer of the Year andNomura Securities wins House of the YearTokyo, March 31, 2014 –Thomson Reuters today announced that Suntory Beverage & Food has won
its coveted ‘Issuer of the Year’ award and Nomura Securities has won ‘House of the Year’ award in its
annual DEALWATCH AWARDS 2013.
The annual DEALWATCH AWARDS were established in 1995 with the aim of rewarding excellence andinnovation in Japan’s capital markets over the course of a financial year. Since then, it become theindustry standard in recognising achievements in Japan’s investment banking community.
DEALWATCH AWARDS 2013 comprises eight categories of awards, including Overall, Straight Bond,Local Government Bond, Samurai Bond, ABS, Equity-linked Bond, Equity and J-REIT.
Screening starts with a questionnaire sent to underwriting houses with lead managers and/orsyndication experience, and institutional investors. Suitable candidates are then selected among public
transactions completed in the past fiscal year. Underwriting houses may nominate their deals if theywish to do so. Finally, DealWatch editors carefully screen the transactions and select winners based on
the judgment criteria above.
The major award winners will be presented with the trophies at the annual DealWatch Gala Awards
Dinner, which will take place at the Capitol Hotel Tokyu on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
A complete list of all winners of DEALWATCH AWARDS 2013 is attached.

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DealWatch Awards 2013– List of Winners
OverallIssuer of the Year
- Suntory Beverage & FoodHouse of the Year
- Nomura Securities

Straight Bond
Straight Bond Issuer of the Year- Development Bank of Japan
Straight Bond House of the Year
- Nomura Securities
Straight Bond of the Year
- NTT DOCOMO Series 20 Unsecured Straight Bonds(Nomura Securities/ Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities/ Mizuho Securities/ GoldmanSachs/ SMBC Nikko Securities)
Debut Debt Deal of the Year
- AEON Financial Service Series 1 Unsecured Straight Bonds(Mizuho Securities/ Daiwa Securities/ Nomura Securities)- AEON Financial Service Series 2 Unsecured Straight Bonds(Nomura Securities/ Daiwa Securities/ Mizuho Securities)- AEON Financial Service Series 1 Unsecured Subordinated Bonds(Daiwa Securities/ Mizuho Securities)- AEON Financial Service Series 2 Unsecured Subordinated Bonds(Mizuho Securities/ Daiwa Securities)
Innovative Debt Deal of the Year- Kyoto Prefecture 20 Year Series 11(Daiwa Securities)
Offshore Bond of the Year
- SoftBank USD-denominated Senior Notes due year 2020
(Deutsche Bank Securities/ Bank of America Merrill Lynch/ Crédit Agricole CIB/ Mizuho
Securities USA/ Morgan Stanley/ Nomura Securities International)- SoftBank EURO-denominated Senior Notes due year 2020
(Deutsche Bank Securities/ Crédit Agricole CIB/ Mizuho International/ Nomura International)

Local Government Bond
Local Government Bond Issuer of the Year
- Japan Finance Organization for MunicipalitiesLocal Government Bond House of the Year
- Daiwa Securities
Local Government Bond of the Year
- Hokkaido Prefecture 20 Year Series 6(Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities/ Daiwa Securities/ Mizuho Securities)

Samurai Bond
Samurai Bond Issuer of the Year
- Banque Fédérative du Crédit MutuelSamurai Bond House of the Year
- SMBC Nikko Securities
Samurai Bond of the Year
- Renault Japanese Yen Bonds Series 13(Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities/ SMBC Nikko Securities)

ABSAsset-backed Securities Deal of the Year
- N/AEquity-linked Bond
Equity-linked Bond Issuer of the Year
- Takashimaya

Equity-linked Bond of the Year
- The Shizuoka Bank US Dollar Zero Coupon Convertible Bonds due 2018
(Nomura International/ Goldman Sachs International)

EquityEquity Issuer of the Year
- DENTSU
Equity House of the Year
- Nomura Securities
Equity Deal of the Year
- Mitsubishi Motors Corporation(Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities/ Nomura Securities/ Merrill Lynch Japan Securities)
IPO of the Year- CYBERDYNE(SMBC Nikko Securities)
Innovative Equity Deal of the Year
- IR Japan(Nomura Securities)

J-REIT
J-REIT Issuer of the Year
- Nippon Prologis REITJ-REIT House of the Year
- Nomura Securities
J-REIT of the Year
- Hulic Reit
(Mizuho Securities/ Nomura Securities)………….