Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2015 Winners Edition

FIRM PROFILE Moody’s Investors Service is a leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis. Moody’s commitment and expertise contributes to transparent and integrated financial markets. The firm’s ratings and analysis track debt covering more than US$30 trillion of debt covering approximately 120 sovereign nations, approximately 11,000 corporate issuers, 21,000 public finance issuers, and 72,000 structured finance obligations. Moody’s Investors Service is a subsidiary of Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO), which reported revenue of $3.3 billion in 2014, employs approximately 10,200 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 35 countries. We currently serve more than 5,000 institutions and have more than 30,000 client users accessing research, ratings opinions and data through our website, www.moodys.com Universally recognized, Moody’s analysts are frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, InfraAmericas, Project Finance Magazine, Bloomberg and other financial journals and business media. In 2013, Moody’s was selected as the rating agency that “most strongly influences investment decisions in Asia” in the FinanceAsia 2013 Fixed Income Research Poll. In addition, Moody’s was voted Rating Agency of the Year by KaaNews Awards in 2014, voted the best credit rating agency in Asia for the third year in a row from Asiamoney Fixed-Income Poll, voted # 1 Municipal Research Team in Smith’s All-Star Voting in 2014, and voted the best credit rating agency in the US for the third year in a row from Institutional Investor US Fixed Income Poll. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Moody’s Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Group combines the expertise of a global team of analysts with extensive backgrounds in Public Finance, Corporate Finance, and Project Finance to rate debt issued by both public and private infrastructure and project finance issuers and electric, gas and water utilities. This includes project finance entities that are limited to a special purpose by law, regulation, or contracts; infrastructure projects and enterprises financed in the U.S. tax-exempt market; and all corporate infrastructure and utility companies. Our approach allows market participants to benefit from a globally consistent and transparent methodological approach to assessing credit risk across the entire asset class in project finance and infrastructure. Moody’s rates over US$3.0 trillion of infrastructure and project finance securities including regulated and unregulated electricity, water, waste and combined utilities, energy related projects, airports, roads, ports, stadiums. For more than 100 years, Moody’s Investors Service has been one of the world’s leading independent global providers of credit rating opinions and insight on credit risk measurement and management. With our sister company, Moody’s Analytics, a leading provider of research data and analytical tools, Moody’s can provide comprehensive credit rating solutions to customers’ needs – from ratings, strategic assessments, credit opinions, sector insights and data. In addition to the 19 methodologies within Project & Infrastructure Finance, Moody’s also publishes various research pieces throughout the year that are specific to the many industries, sectors, and rated issuers. Of these reports, the Global Infrastructure Focus newsletter is a monthly publication that contains feature stories, highlights throughout the sectors and rating updates. Project Finance Firm of the Year Walter Winrow Managing Director Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Walter.Winrow@moodys.com Americas William L. Hess Managing Director Utilities William.Hess@moodys.com Chee Mee Hu Managing Director Project Finance CheeMee.Hu@moodys.com EMEA Monica Merli Managing Director Infrastructure Finance Monica.Merli@moodys.com Andrew Davison Senior Vice President Andrew.Davison@moodys.com Asia-Pacific Terry Fanous Managing Director Terry.Fanous@moodys.com Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2015 www.finance-monthly.com 47 M A & AWARDS 2015 USA