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The full list of winners from IFLR's Americas awards is here

Continental high yield L-R: Cedric Van Den Borren of Shearman & Sterling, Christoph Gleske of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Daniel Kress of Hengeler Mueller, Simon Porter of Baker & McKenzie Continental's debt issue was the first secured high-yield bond to be sold under the new German Bond Act. Because of this, the €750 million senior secured notes contained some innovative features, including the first trustee-like service. It also still had to be structured around gaps in the legislation.

CVC Capital Partners/PT Matahari Department Store L-R: Trevor Clark of Linklaters, Neeraj Budhwani of Clifford Chance, ABNR’s Theodore Bakker, Indah N Respati of Hadiputranto Hadinoto, Dominique Lombardi of Rajah & Tann, Maples and Calder’s Jenny Nip, Christopher Williams of Reed Smith Richards Butler, Lucien Wong of Allen & Gledhill CVC Capital Partners' acquisition of a 98% shareholding in the Indonesian retail company, PT Matahari Department Store, was one of 2010's highest profile Indonesian acquisitions thanks to the size and complexity of the transaction.

This award is given for each of the 14 Asian jurisdictions that IFLR covers. It is for firms whose head office is in that jurisdiction and recognises work they carried out under their home law last year across all of IFLR's core practice areas. Peer and client recommendations are also taken into account to decide the winners.

L-R: Simon Wiggs from Major Lindsey & Africa, Trevor Clark of Linklaters International firm of the year 2010 was an excellent year for Linklaters, with the firm advising on several of this year's most interesting deals. The firm assisted banks on Hong Kong's largest ever listing, AIA Group's IPO, advised the bond trustee on New Zealand and Australasia's first covered bond programme, and advised Bank of China in developing a legal infrastructure on the first renminbi offshore financing, Hopewell Highway's bond.

Japan Airlines’ corporate reorganisation Clifford Chance's Andrew Hutchins Having considered its options for a corporate turnaround throughout 2009, Asia's biggest air carrier, Japan Airlines' (JAL) decision to file for bankruptcy protection in January 2010 signaled one of Japan's biggest corporate failures but it also set in motion landmark reorganisation proceedings.

Vale S.A.’s listing of Hong Kong Depositary Receipts L-R: Greta Gu, Crystal Zhu, Kelvin Ho of JPMorgan, Carla Albano of Vale, Julian Chung of Norton Rose, Christina Loh and Eve Chan of Paul Hastings, Kevin Altit of Mattos Filho, Cleary Gottlieb's Matthew Warburton In December, Brazilian iron ore miner Vale S.A. became the first company to issue Hong Kong Depositary Receipts (HDRs) following the 2008 establishment of a regulatory framework for the securities.

India's biggest technology M&A deal to date has been backed by a rare debt-based financing structure.

It is awards season at IFLR. The last three months have been filled with submissions, interviews, ceremonies – and, in some cases, bitter recriminations from firms losing out. The awards celebrate legal innovation within capital markets and always have. It's a formula that has worked well for 14 years, since our first ceremony in London. Turn to page 24 for the full write ups of our Asia and Europe awards. The Americas write-ups will follow next month.

In-house counsel need to keep these all in the air In-house counsel in Hong Kong have urged lawyers to invest more time in bringing company employees onside.