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Merrill
Lynch
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, with offices in 36 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.7 trillion. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. Through Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, the company is one of the world's largest managers of financial assets. Firmwide, assets under management total $524 billion.
Merrill Lynch has enjoyed a long presence in the Greek market, having advised on several landmark advisory, equity and debt transactions. Most recently, Merrill Lynch acted as Joint Bookrunner on the €835 million accelerated offering of 10% in Hellenic Telecom Organization (OTE) by the Hellenic Republic (Sep 2005) and Joint Bookrunner on the €400 million institutional hybrid tier 1 placing by EFG Eurobank Ergasias (Oct 2005). In addition, Merrill Lynch advised TIM Italia on the $2.1 billion sale of it's 80.9% holding in TIM Hellas to Apax Partners and Texas Pacific Group (June 2005) and acted as Joint Lead Manager on the subsequent financing (September 2005).
For more information on Merrill Lynch, please visit www.ml.com.
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