The Nomination Process

Qualifying Period

Deal activity between January 1, 2009, and February 28, 2010.

Notes on Nominations

1. Please state which deal your nomination relates to, and then which category or categories you would like to nominate under.
2. The deals must have been completed within the qualifying period (above).
3. The deal(s) must be geographically relevant to either the Thames Valley or Solent/South Central areas (please email admin@elcot.co.uk if you would like a Map emailed to you). Either the target, acquirer, funder, law firm or adviser must be located in this region.
4. Only one nomination per firm per deal should be sent. Multiple nominations by different partners in the same firm, for instance, on one deal will not influence judges.
5. Additional material that you want to submit should be scanned and emailed in PDF format to the event coordinator, Louise Esplin at louise@straightpr.co.uk.
6. Please clearly state where information is confidential. Any confidential information will be available to judges but not announced at the awards event or distributed to media.
7. If you have questions about what to include or exclude on the nomination form, please email David Murray at david@elcot.co.uk.
8. Closing date for entries is March 5, 2010.
9. Judging will take place in March and all finalists will be notified by the end of March.
10. Depending on the quality of entries, usually three/four finalists will be chosen per category.
11. No winners will be announced until the event itself on April 22.
12. The winners of Dealmaker and Deal categories will be chosen at the event by keypad voting.
13. The judges’ decision will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into. No sponsor is allowed to judge within their own category.
14. Finally, remember these are deals awards, so in categories like bank, banker, law firm etc the judges look for deal-related nominations and excellence in specific deals – rather than whether a firm has, say, strength across all its disciplines.