Finance Asia – Achievement Awards 2022: Asia’s best regional deals revealed

Our annual Achievement Awards recognise excellence across Asia’s financial markets. Covering three key categories - Deal Awards, House Awards and Regional Deal Awards - our Achievement Awards highlight the accomplishments of key players across Asia and Australia/New Zealand, that have shown dedication to their sector.

We are delighted to announce that following receipt of over 600 submissions, our Advisory Board of external experts along with the support of our editorial team, have now completed the judging process for this year’s awards.

Please find below a list of this year’s winners of the Regional Deal Awards category.

The rationale behind winner selection will be published in our upcoming winter print edition of the FinanceAsia magazine.


Main Category & region	Sub-category	Deal name	Participants
Regional Deal Awards - Asia
	Best of HKSAR	Airport Authority Hong Kong $1bn Green Notes and $3bn Conventional Notes	MLAUB: BNP Paribas, BofA Securities, HSBC, JP Morgan, Standard Chartered, UBS, ANZ, Barclays, Bank of China, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Mizuho Securities and Morgan Stanley Advisors: ANZ, Bank of China, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Linklaters, Standard Chartered Bank

	Best of China	Beigene’s US$3.5 Billion STAR-Market Initial Public Offering	MLAUB: Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities and China International Capital Corporation (joint sponsors and joint bookrunners). JP Morgan Securities, CITIC Securities, Guotai Junan Securities (joint bookrunners) Advisors: Fangda Partners

	Best of The Frontier Markets	EVN Finance Green Bond	MLAUB: GuarantCo (guarantor), Vietcombank Securities (mandated lead arranger) Advisors: Allen & Overy (legal adviser for guarantor)

		The Ministry of Finance of the Lao People's Democratic Republic’s THB 5 billion THB Bonds Issuance through a New THB 10 billion MTN Programme	MLAUB: KTBST Securities, Finansia Syrus Securities, Kingsford Securities, Merchant Partners Securities, Philip Securities Thailand, UOB Kay Hian Securities Thailand, Siam Wealth Securities Advisors: Twin Pine Group

	Best of Northeast Asia	LG Energy Solution's $10.8bn Initial Public Offering	MLAUB: KB Securities, Morgan Stanley (lead managers) BofA Securities, Citigroup, Daishin Securities, Goldman Sachs and Shinhan Investment Corp (joint bookrunners) Advisors: Paul Hastings (advisor), Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (advisor to the underwriters)

	Best of South Asia	Adani's $6.5bn Acquisition of Ambuja Cement and ACC	MLAUB: Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, BNP Paribas Advisors: Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Latham & Watkins

	Best of Southeast Asia	Government of Singapore's Inaugural SG$2.4bn, 50-Year Green Bond Deal	MLAUB: DBS Bank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, OCBC, Standard Chartered Bank (joint bookrunners) Advisors: DBS

Follow the links below for the winners of other categories.