The Credit Suisse team working on the Banco Santander Brasil initial public offering - the largest in the world this year - travelled to four continents in two and a half weeks to secure the deal, a hectic schedule that reaped dividends. Writer John Rumsey
The Goldman Sachs team: Ben Green, Sarika Singh, Elena Paitra, Rob Ritchie (standing) Martin Wiwen-NilssonSince the Lehman collapse, selling commercial mortgage-backed securities has not been considered a worthwhile venture. It took some innovative thinking by Goldman Sachs, on behalf of UK supermarket chain Tesco, to prove otherwise. Writer Edward Russell-Walling
Left to right: Kapil Damani, Mark Gibson, Joshua Luks and Rishi NaikDespite the bottom falling out of the catastrophe bond market in 2008, the team at BNP Paribas devised a novel way for reinsurer Hannover Re to re-enter the market, with impressive results. Writer Edward Russell-Walling