We at GTR are proud to announce the full list of all the winning GTR Best Deals of 2009.

As usual, we were overwhelmed with nominations from every sector and every continent. We narrowed down the thousands of submissions to just over 40 deals that we believe best represent the achievements in the trade, export and commodity finance market across the globe in 2009.

Not all the winning deals are huge multi-billion transactions, but they are all significant in their individual ways.

Full reports on each deal (complete with a list of all the banks involved) will be published in the March-April GTR.

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The Deals 2009 (In alphabetical order)

Agro Traders

US$15mn cocoa receivables-backed revolving trade finance facility

Ashegoda Wind Farm

€210mn wind farm project financing in Ethiopia

Balfour Beatty

Long-term structured trade finance facility in support of a new railway in China

BiBanco TFFP

First deal signed under IADB’s new trade finance facilitation programme

Codelco

US$400mn pre-export finance deal in Chile

Dewa

Multi-ECA-backed financing in support of Dubai’s electricity and water authority (Dewa)

Dolphin Energy

Multi-billion dollar refinancing in support of Dolphin gas pipeline

EGPC

US$400mn syndicated pre-export finance loan for Egypt’s state-owned oil company

Energy Resources

US$30mn pre-export facility in favour of Mongolian mining company

Erdenet

US$55mn club deal in support of Erdenet Mining Corporation, Mongolia.

Eskom - Medupi & Kusile

Two ECA-backed facilities (€705mn and €1.185bn) in support of Eskom’s Medupi and Kusile power plants in South Africa.

Etihad

ECA-term loan facilities financing Abu Dhabi airline

US Ex-Im LC structured trade finance solution

US Ex-Im’s Korea-focused letters of credit financing programme

Ferrexpo

US$230mn pre-export finance

Fibria

US$1.175bn secured export-backed facility

FirstCape Vineyards

Revolving annual facility for South African vineyard

GE Energy/Trade Bank of Iraq

JP Morgan’s US$3bn export LC scheme in Iraq

Global Trade Liquidity Programme/IFC

IFC’s US$1.75bn liquidity programme supporting revival in trade finance

Globe Telecom

DFI-supported facility of telecoms firm in Philippines

Idea Cellular

US$260mn Finnish export credit facility for Indian telecoms firm

KazExportAstyk

US$90mn pre-export and borrowing base facility for Kazakhstan agri-holding.

Kogas

US$631mn refinancing LNG carriers in Korea

Minera Esperanza

US$1.05bn mining transaction in Chile

Mitaki Windpark

€128mn wind farm project financing

MMK Atakas

US$1.7bn ECA-backed project financing in Turkey

Nandipur

US$250mn buyer's credit for Pakistani power plant

Noble Group

Syndicated term and revolving credit facilities for Singapore-based trading company

Nord Stream

€5.5bn cross-border project finance to support pipeline project

Olkaria

US$105mn debt financing for power plant in Kenya

Petrobras

EKF-backed structured financing solution for Brazil’s oil company

Petroleos

Multi-sourced framework for export credit financing for Mexico’s oil company

PNG LNG

US$14bn debt financing for Papua New Guinea’s LNG plant

Prosperity Group

US$40mn structured trade finance term loan supporting cement projects in China

PT Angels

Structured murabaha trade finance facility in Indonesia

PT Telkomunikasi Selular

US$318mn buyer credit deal for Indonesian telecoms deal

Saudi Electricity

US$1.12bn ECA-backed loan in Saudi

Sainsbury’s SCF

£250mn supply chain finance facility for supermarket chain

Sonara

Syndicated export pre-payment facility for Cameroon oil company

Tatneft

US$1.5bn Pre-export finance for Russian oil firm

TNK BP

US$600mn club deal pre-export facility for oil firm

Transnet

ECA-backed facility to finance South Africa’s Transnet’s capex plans

Vyborg

Export finance facility for Russian corporate

Wataniya

US$285mn financing of mobile network in Palestine

Zambia Copper & Cobalt

US$40mn pre-export facility financing trade between Zambia and China