Breakthrough Deals of the Year Award Winners Announced; Investment Dealers' Digest presents its investment banking awards in the December 14 Issue.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 1998--Investment Dealers' Digest, a weekly publication of Securities Data Publishing, announced today the winners of its Breakthrough Deals of the Year Awards in fourteen of the sixteen award categories. The sixteen awards, given to investment banks and bankers for excellence in specified categories, will be presented to the winners at a special awards reception at the Plaza Hotel in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on January 20, 1999. The fourteen winners of the Breakthrough Deals of the Year Awards are featured and profiled in the December 14th issue of Investment Dealers' Digest. The remaining two award winners, Investment Bank of the Year and Banker of the Year, will be announced at the January 20th reception and featured in the following issue of Investment Dealers' Digest. "First I would like to congratulate all of our winners and thank everyone for taking the time and effort to nominate so many deserving candidates and their deals," noted Investment Dealers' Digest Editor-in-Chief Ron Cooper. "To choose our winners, we looked for creativity, impact, size and investor reception--pretty much in that order. The banks and advisors that won our award were responsible for ushering what we believe were the most interesting and noteworthy investment banking deals of 1998." Deal of the Year Daimler-Benz AG merger with Chrysler Corporation Credit Suisse First Boston Credit Suisse First Boston was originally the trading name of the Financière Crédit Suisse-First Boston, a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture formed in 1978 between the First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse. ; Goldman Sachs & Company; Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Mergers & Acquisitions AT&T Corporation acquisition of Tele-communications Inc. Credit Suisse First Boston; Goldman Sachs & Company; Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Technology America Online Inc. acquisition of Netscape Communications Inc. Goldman Sachs & Company; Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Energy Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; $4 billion High-Yield Financing high-yield financing See junk financing. Package Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; Wasserstein Perella Securities, Inc. Media Bertelsmann AG acquisition of Random House Lazard Freres & Company Telecom WorldCom, Inc. acquisition of MCI Communications Corp. Salomon Smith Barney Emerging Markets Republic of Korea; $4 billion Global Bond Offering Goldman Sachs & Company; Salomon Smith Barney Page 2 Healthcare MedCath Inc.; $450 million LBO LBO See: Leveraged buyout LBO See leveraged buyout (LBO). Goldman Sachs & Company Financial Buyers Chancellor Media Corporation merger with Capstar Broadcasting Corporation Hicks, Muse Tate & Furst Structured Finance Bistro Series; Synthetic CLO CLO See: Collateralized Loan Obligation. J.P. Morgan High Yield CalEnergy Company, Inc.; $1.4 billion Senior Note Offering Credit Suisse First Boston; Lehman Brothers Financial Institutions Citicorp and Travelers Group merger Salomon Smith Barney Gaming Aladdin Hotel and Casino; Construction Finance Package Westwood Capital Real Estate Irvine Apartment Communities, LP; tax exempt unsecured debt Unsecured debt Debt that does not identify specific assets that the debtholder is entitled to in case of default. offering J.P. Morgan The winners of the awards were chosen from nominations submitted from the investment banking community and judged by Investment Dealers' Digest's editors and reporters. There were no restrictions on what types of deals could be submitted. For information on copies and subscriptions of Investment Dealers' Digest please contact Shari Kall at 212-830-9363. Securities Data Publishing (SDP (Session Description Protocol) An IETF protocol that defines a text-based message format for describing a multimedia session. Data such as version number, contact information, broadcast times and audio and video encoding types are included in the message. ), a unit of Thomson Financial Thomson Financial A major provider of information, analytical tools, and consulting services to the financial community. 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