The Participating Companies for the 2011 International M&A Awards Include: A&L Goodbody; Acergy S.A.; Acxit Capital Management; Adjmi Apparel Group; Advantest Corporation; Aequitas Law Firm; AFCV Holdings; AIB Corporate Finance; AIG / Chartis; AIG Consumer Finance Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of AIG, c/o American International Group; Aird & Berlis; Alfaro-Abogados; Alkermes; Allen & Co.; Allen & Overy; Allied Irish Banks; Alston & Bird; Altaris Capital Partners; Andrews Kurth; Anglo Irish Bank; Answers Corporation; Arendt & Medernach (Luxembourg); ArgyStar.com; ARMZ; Arthur Cox; Avicon Partnership; Avox; Avtron Manufacturing Inc.; Baker & McKenzie; Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentina (BBVA); Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A.and Tarjetas Regionales S.A.; Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Bank of Ireland; Bär & Karrer AG; Barclays Capital Inc; BJ Services; BMO Capital Markets; Borghesi Colombo & Associati; Bowman Gilfillan Attorneys; Bronx International, Inc.; Bruner-Cox; Buccino & Associates, Inc.; Cahill Gordon & Reindel; Caldwell Group; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; Capital IQ; Capstone Partners; Cassels Brock & BlackwellCerasus ll Limited; Charles Russell; China Huaneng Group; China Investment Corp; CIBC World Markets ; Citi Corp; Citigate Dewe Rogerson; Citigroup Inc.; Clariant Corporation; Cleary Gottlieb & Hamilton; Clifford Chance; CMS Hasche Sigle; Cortes Abogados; Credit Suisse; De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (Netherlands law only); Deloitte; Deloitte & Touche; Desai & Diwanji; Deutsche Bank AG; Deutsche Securities (SA) Limited; Discovery Health (Pty) Ltd; Dorsey & Whitney; Dow Lohnes LP; Edleman; Education Consolidation Corporation (ECC); Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, Inc. (ENS); Energia Overseas Limited; Epiq Systems; Ernst & Young; Estudio Beccar Varela; Fasken Martineau; Fives Group; Fogler Rubinoff LP; Fraser Milner Casgrain; Freeworld Coatings Ltd; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Front Range Business; Garrigues, Abogados y Asesores Tributarios; GCA Savvian Advisors; GE Capital; GMR Group; GOG&P; Goldman Sachs International; Goodbody Corporate Finance; Goodwin Procter; Grant Thornton; Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.; Greenberg Traurig; Greenhill Caliburn; GROHE AG; Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy,Greenberg & Co.; H.I.G European Capital Partners; Hauck & Aufhäuser; Hawpoint; Heisse Kursawe Eversheds; Henry Schein, Inc.; Hercules Offshore, Inc.; Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc; Hogan Lovells; Houlihan Lokey; HRT Participacoes; HSBC; ICON Capital Corp; Immediate Response Technologies; INEOS Holdings Limited; Investec USA Holdings Corp; J Sagar; Jefferies & Company, Inc.; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Jones Day; JOYOU AG; JP Morgan Securities; Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.; KCSA Strategic Communications; Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (“KKR”); KPMG; Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel; Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings; Lane McVicker; Latham & Watkins, Maples and Calder; Lazard Freres & Co.; Legacy M&A Advisors; LEK; Liberty Acquisition Holdings Corp; Luigi Lavazza S.p.A.; Macleod Dixon; Macquarie Capital Advisors Limited; Marlin & Associates; Martek Biosciences Corporation; Massmart Holdings Limited; Maxim Partners; McCarthy Tetrault; Meitar Liquornik Geva & Leshem; Merrill Corporation; Merrill DataSite; Mexichem S.A.B. de C.V.; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Morgan Stanley; Morgan Stanley Australia; Morrison & Foerster; New Zealand Food Company; Newman Lowther & Associates; NM Rothschild & Sons (South Africa); Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. / Nomura International plc; Northern Trust; Nortons Incorporated; Novartis International Inc; Occidental Petroleum Corporation; Octagon Process; ON Semiconductor; Pacific Equity Partners; Pangea3, Inc; Paul Hastings; PEGBASE; Pepper Hamilton; Permira; Pfizer, Inc.; Photolibrary; Polestar; Polsinelli Shughart; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Promotora de Informaciones; Rand Merchant Bank; RBB Economics (Competition economics adviser); Read Hope Phillips Thomas & Cadman Incorporated (RHP); Robertson College; Ropes & Gray; Ross Group Enterprises Limited; Rothchilds and JPMorgan Chase Inc; Rothstein, Kass & Company P.C.; Ruia Group; Russell McVeagh; S.W.I.F.T. SCRL; Salans; SANYO Electric Co. Ltd.; Scotia Waterous; Sea Launch; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Sinopec; Skadden; Slaughter & May (UK, Belgium); Sonenshine Partners; Stikeman Elliott; Stone Point Capital; Subserveo; Sun European Partners; Systemax Inc.; Tegris Advisors; Temco Service Industries, Inc.; Terex Corporation Third Person; Thomson Reuters Corporation; TM Capital Corp.; TPG Capital LLP/UK; Trilegal; Trintech; Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS; UBS Investment Bank; UBS Securities LLC - Financial Advisor to AIG; Unimark Remedies Limited; UNX Energy; Uranium One; Valuation Research Corp.; Verigy, Ltd.; Vinson & Elkins; Violy & Co; Visa International; Wachtell,Lipton,Rosen and Katz; Walmart; Wal-Mart Stores Inc; Webber Wentzel; Weil, Gotshal & Manges; Wells Fargo; Western Reserve Partners; White & Case; William Blair & Son; Wilson Sonsini; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C.; Winston & Strawn and YES BANK LIMITED.