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Awards Recognize Strategic M&A Excellence for Corporate Dealmaking Teams at Amazon.com, Coca-Cola, Kinder Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway, Abbott Labs, United Technologies, IBM, DuPont and Verizon
New York, N.Y. - November 19, 2012 - The Deal (www.thedeal.com), a division of TheStreet, Inc., announced today the winners for the fifth annual Most Admired Corporate Dealmaker Awards. Winners were selected from nine major S&P industry groups and selected through a survey of readers of The Deal and users of The Deal Pipeline. Voters determined which candidate in each industry excelled in overall M&A strategy for the five-year period based on the criteria of strategy, valuation, deal execution and team skill.
The following companies were recognized and honored as winners: Amazon.com Inc., Consumer Discretionary; The Coca-Cola Co., Consumer Staples; Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, Energy; Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Finance; Abbott Laboratories, Healthcare; United Technologies Corp., Industrials; IBM Corp., Information Technology; E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Materials; and Verizon Communications Inc., Telecommunications.
The awards will be presented during a dinner at the New York Stock Exchange on the evening of November 28, 2012 during The Deal Economy 2013 event. The profiles of the MACD winners is available online at TheDeal.com.
The initial 56 U.S. large-cap nominees, all with market caps in excess of $5 billion, were drawn from nine industries identified by the editors of The Deal and selected based on the strength of their shareholder performance (excess total shareholder return) and overall deal activity from 2007 through 2011. The Deal's editorial team used data from The Deal Pipeline, S&P Capital IQ and Dealogic.
"This year's winners are recognized by our readers as being among the best-in-class acquirers with a better-than-average record for delivering excess total returns to their shareholders," says Suzanne Miller, senior editor at The Deal.
Through survey partner Rivel Research, The Deal canvased its readers and user base of transaction-focused corporate executives, bankers, lawyers, private equity professionals, arbitrageurs, portfolio managers and M&A service providers on the MACD candidates. The results reflect feedback from over 1,000 respondents.
The April article launching this year's survey and highlighting the qualities for becoming a Most Admired Corporate Dealmaker can be found by visiting www.thedeal.com. Winning companies from prior years can be found at http://www.thedeal.com/mostadmired/.
About the MACD Survey:
The MACD Award, now in its fifth year, is unique because The Deal relies on an industry peer voting process to determine which major U.S. dealmakers qualify as the best all around dealmakers in their industries. This year the list of nominated companies was expanded to include nine major S&P industry groups, rather than the top most transaction-intensive sectors. Readers and users of The Deal's products and services were asked to identify outstanding candidates based on four criteria: overall strategy and choice of targets; execution and demonstrated skill of the deal team. The survey assesses corporate deal making effectiveness over the past five years of transaction history to give a more accurate picture of deal performance over time.
About The Deal
The Deal, a business unit of TheStreet, has been serving corporate dealmakers, advisers and institutional investors the most sophisticated analysis of the deal economy since 1999. Our transaction information service, The Deal Pipeline, is powered by a newsroom of senior journalists who offer proprietary research and reporting across M&A, bankruptcies, auctions and financings. It includes a breaking news service, First Take; daily and weekly sector newsletters; The Daily Deal, a 2x daily report of the day's top stories; a research center with over a decade's worth of intelligence and a database of over 100,000 deals; and an iPad app. Our marketing & media services group produces the industry's leading forecasting event, The Deal Economy, held annually at the NYSE in addition to industry webcasts and integrated marketing programs. For more information, visit www.thedeal.com
About Dealogic
Dealogic provides a platform for investment banking and capital markets professionals globally to help improve strategy, competitiveness and execution. The platform incorporates technology, data, analytics and consulting to help investment banks better understand their clients and the competitive landscape so they can allocate resources and execute deals more effectively.
About Rivel Research
Gathering, analyzing and interpreting investment community feedback is our core business. Rivel Research Group specializes in delivering actionable insight based on in-depth measurements of the global investment community. Rivel's highly experienced staff provides the well-informed, unbiased and strategically relevant intelligence companies need to effectively communicate with such important constituencies as sell-side and buy-side analysts, portfolio managers, financial media and other influential audiences.
About S&P Capital IQ
S&P Capital IQ, a brand of the McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is a leading provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment advisers and wealth managers around the world. We provide a broad suite of capabilities designed to help track performance, generate alpha, identify new trading and investment ideas, and perform risk analysis and mitigation strategies. Through leading desktop solutions such as Capital IQ, Global Credit Portal and MarketScope Advisor desktops; enterprise solutions such as S&P Securities Evaluations, Global Data Solutions, and Compustat; and research offerings including Leveraged Commentary & Data, Valuation & Risk Strategies and S&P Equity Research, S&P Capital IQ sharpens financial intelligence into the wisdom today's investors need.
