Goldman Sachs wins FinanceAsia award

KUALA LUMPUR: Goldman Sachs has been named the Best Foreign Investment Bank in Malaysia by FinanceAsia magazine in its annual
Country Awards for Achievement.

This
is the third time in the past four years Goldman Sachs has won the
award from FinanceAsia, a leading capital and banking market magazine
in Asia.

Goldman Sachs has also executed a number of key
transactions between June 2011 and May 2012, including Sapura Crest's
US$3.9 billion merger with Kencana Petroleum, Sunway City's US$1.6
billion acquisition of Sunway Holdings and Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank's
US$1.9 billion sales of a 24.9 per cent stake in RHB
capital to Aabar Investment.

Other
transactions are the US$10.2 billion take-private of PLUS Expressways,
1Malaysia Development Bhd's US$2.8 billion acquisition of Tanjong
Energy Holdings, the US$1.7 billion sale of 75 per cent of Acibadem to
Integrated Healthcare Holdings and AmG Insurance's US$500 million
acquisition of Kurnia Insurance, Goldman Sachs said in a statement
today.

The group said it also managed Axiata Group's US$159 million secondary offerings last year.

Goldman
Sachs is also the international bookrunner for the US$2 billion initial
public offering of Integrated Healthcare Holdings which will be listed
in Malaysia and Singapore later this month. -- BERNAMA