MUFG Wins Americas Bank of the Year for 2015 from IJGlobal Magazine As Industry Recognition for Project Finance Group Continues
March 17 2016 - 5:10PM
Business Wire
In Addition to Top Honor, MUFG Also Captures
Nine ‘Deal of the Year’ Awards
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), one of the world’s
leading financial groups, today announced it was named Americas
Bank of the Year for 2015 by IJGlobal, the project finance and
infrastructure magazine’s top annual regional honor.
In addition to capturing the publication’s most prestigious
accolade (also known as Americas Mandated Lead Arranger),
MUFG Americas’ Project Finance team also won nine IJGlobal Deal
of the Year awards, with seven of the winning transactions
derived from North America and two from Latin America.
The IJGlobal honors, awarded last night, are the latest in a
remarkable run of industry recognition for the MUFG Americas’
Project Finance group: last month, the team won Global Bank of
the Year -- and 12 Deal of the Year awards -- from
Project Finance International Magazine.
“We are extremely grateful to IJGlobal for having recognized
MUFG’s success and efforts in the project finance sector,” said Jon
Lindenberg, MUFG’s head of project finance for the Americas. “For
us, these awards signify an appreciation of the faith our clients
have placed in us. Their trust in MUFG allows us to more
effectively support them as they seek to achieve their financing
goals.”
The following are the IJGlobal Deal of the Year awards
won by MUFG Americas’ Project Finance team:
- North American Power Bond Deal of
the Year: Pio Pico Gas-Fired Peaker Plant, California
- North American LNG Deal of the
Year: Corpus Christi, Texas
- North American M&A Deal of the
Year: Indiana Toll Road Acquisition
- North American Rail Deal of the
Year: Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit Line, Canada
- North American Roads Deal of the
Year: New Champlain Bridge Corridor Project, Canada
- North American Solar Deal of the
Year: Silver State South Photovoltaic Project, Nevada
- North American Midstream Deal of the
Year: Waha San Elizario & Presidio Gas Pipelines, Mexico/US
Border
- Latin American Airport Deal of the
Year: Mexico City New International Airport/NAICM
- Latin American Multi-Source
Financing Deal of the Year: Lima Metro Line 2, Peru
IJGlobal is one of the leading sources on project finance
structure, policy, pricing, key players influencing transactions,
and trends.
About MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation
Headquartered in New York, MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation is
a financial holding company and bank holding company with total
assets of $116.2 billion at December 31, 2015. Its principal
subsidiary, MUFG Union Bank, N.A., provides an array of financial
services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies,
and major corporations. As of December 31, 2015, MUFG Union Bank,
N.A. operated 369 branches, comprised primarily of retail banking
branches in the West Coast states, along with commercial branches
in Texas, Illinois, New York and Georgia, as well as two
international offices. MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial
Group, Inc., one of the leading financial groups. Visit
www.unionbank.com or www.mufgamericas.com for more information.
About MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.)
MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.) is one of the
world’s leading financial groups, with total assets of
approximately ¥295.8 trillion (JPY) or $2.5 trillion (USD)[1], as
of December 31, 2015. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately
350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with about 1,200
offices in nearly 50 countries. The Group has over 140,000
employees and about 300 entities, offering services including
commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards,
consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group’s
operating companies include Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ,
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (Japan’s leading trust
bank), and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., Ltd., one of
Japan’s largest securities firms. Through close partnerships among
our operating companies, the Group aims to “be the world’s most
trusted financial group”, flexibly responding to all of the
financial needs or our customers, serving society, and fostering
shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG’s shares
trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock
exchanges. Visit www.mufg.jp/english/index.html.
1 Exchange rate of 1 USD=¥120.6 (JPY) as of December 30,
2015
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.Lauren Sambrotto,
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