SEB named Nordic Financial Advisor of the Year ...

SEB Enskilda has been voted as 2009 Nordic Financial Advisor of the
Year at the Financial Times and Mergermarket European M&A Awards
announced in London on December 9th. The Awards utilise both M&A
transaction data and independent expert opinion from a panel of
leading European M&A practitioners.


SEB Enskilda has long held a leading and unique position in Nordic
M&A through its strength and depth in each of the relevant Nordic
markets.

This award follows SEB Enskilda's success in the survey on Nordic
corporate finance recently published by Prospera. In this survey, SEB
Enskilda is ranked as the number one corporate finance advisor among
the largest corporate finance clients in all four Nordic countries as
well as being top ranked for overall performance for the Nordic
region among both local and international advisors.

In addition to this ranking, SEB Enskilda was named as the best M&A
advisor in the Nordic and Baltic regions by the finance industry
magazine, Euromoney, in August this year.


SEB is a Northern European financial group serving some 400,000
corporate customers and institutions and five million private
individuals. SEB offers universal banking services in Sweden, Germany
and the three Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It
also has a local presence in the other Nordic countries, Ukraine and
Russia and a global presence through its international network in
leading financial centres. On September 30, 2009, the Group's total
assets amounted to SEK 2,233 billion and its assets under management
totalled SEK 1,295 billion. The SEB Group has about 20,000 employees.
Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com.
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For further information, please contact:
John Abrahamson, head SEB Enskilda Corporate Finance, tel. [phone]
9651
Elisabeth Lennhede, Press & PR, [phone]


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