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Short-listed firms Allen & Overy Clifford Chance Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Linklaters Allen & Overy continued to prove that you can securitize just about anything by securitizing forest land in 2002. The Tornator deal was only the fifth whole business securitization outside the UK and the first deal of its type in Finland. The firm also continued to show its dominance in the area of master trust structures, advising Abbey National and Northern Rock on deals during the year and also working on the £3.4 billion ($5.46 billion) Permanent Financing deal for HBOS, a newcomer to the securitization market.

Short-listed firms Allen & Overy Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Davis Polk & Wardwell Linklaters Shearman & Sterling Sullivan & Cromwell Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Allen & Overy extended tier I debt into yet more jurisdictions in 2002. The firm has now closed 12 tier I firsts in the past few years. Involvement with the BAA auction process also showed the firm is at the cutting edge of innovation on other types of debt capital markets deals. Highlights during 2002 included the Alpha Bank deal, the first Greek tier I issue and a particularly difficult deal involving the expansion of Greek banking supervisions, and Landesbank of Schleswig-Holstein, the first tier I issue for a German Landesbank.