Bloomberg – League Tables Criteria
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General Guidelines
Credit is based on the total amount of the offering sold to the public. Full credit is awarded to the sole bookrunning manager or split equally among
joint bookrunning managers; unless full, explicit breakdown of bookrunning is provided by an involved party. Regional and local tables are identified
based on factors such as currency, market of issuer and/or country of risk/incorporation.
Fixed Income
All transactions must have a maturity/call/put option of minimum 18 months. Make-whole call and provisional call/put are exempted from this rule.
Note: Criteria may vary for some local and/or regional tables. USD denominated 144A/REG S issues are credited 100% to the 144A tranche and
0% to the REG S tranche. Non-USD denominated 144A/REG S issues are credited 100% to the REG S tranche and 0% to the 144A tranche. Self-
led transactions are included. New money portions of exchange offers are eligible for credit.
Exclusions: Accredited investor tranches, asset-backed issues, auction note agencies, collateralized bond obligations, collateralized loan
obligations, commercial paper, municipal bonds, mortgage-backed issues, remarketed issues, repackaged bonds, government borrowing
scheme retained bonds, variable principal redemption issues, variable interest equity-linked issues, and credit linked notes, selling group agency
issues, strips, units, warrants, self-led under USD 50 million. Note: Criteria may vary for some local and/or regional tables.
Equities-Linked
Equity-linked transactions: Convertible bonds, convertible preferred stock and exchangeable bonds. Only issues that mature and are callable/
puttable in 12 months or longer are included. Make-whole call, provisional call and provisional put are exempted from this rule. Convertible bonds
with attached warrants are included. These are defined as synthetic convertibles with the combination of a fixed income instrument and warrants
which can be converted into shares. The embedded warrant can be detachable or non-detachable but the bond and the warrant must be sold as a
unit, i.e. there cannot be separate book building for the warrant and the bond.
Exclusions: Redemption-linked instruments, reverse convertibles or similar instruments, synthetics convertibles, issues convertible
into participation in an underlying fund or investment trust, pre-IPO convertible instruments, certain lower hierarchy titles, i.e. Jr Bookrunner.
Equities
Equity market transactions: Initial public offerings, additional offerings of common stocks, units, and depositary receipts (ADRs, GDRs, etc) and
rights offerings.
Exclusions: Non-underwritten/best efforts, privately placed transactions, funds, self-led, preferred offerings, pre-negotiated offerings, certain lower
hierarchy titles, i.e. Jr Bookrunner. Note: Criteria may vary for some local and/or regional tables.