ABN AMRO takes Euromoney's award for Best Debt House in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

/ABN AMRO, Аlmaty, 20.07.05/ - Today the representatives of ABN AMRO received the Euromoney's Awards for Excellence as "Best Debt House in Kazakhstan" and "Best Debt House in Central Asia" Euromoney's Awards for Excellence are benchmark awards to highlight high- quality products and services across all areas of commercial and investment banking, regionally and globally. The following criteria were taken into account while taking a decision on the award: ABN AMRO is the leading debt house in the region, it led some of the market's most innovative debt financings in 2004. The key strengths of the bank are: leading the market in product innovation, leading all the corporate bonds offering from Kazakhstan in 2004, being #1 bond bookrunner and lead arranger of loans in Kazakhstan. Martin Born, Director, Russia and CIS, Euromoney, said: "We have chosen ABN AMRO as Best Debt House because it made almost all the bond issues was managing many corporate deals including TengizChevroil's bonds and KazTransGas' debut Eurobonds issues." Alina Aldambergen, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of ABN AMRO in Kazakhstan, noted: "ABN AMRO has a long-standing history in arranging debt capital markets transactions for Kazakh issuers and the awards are further evidence of our position as leading international bank in Kazakhstan." ABN AMRO has received its largest ever collection of awards in Euromoney magazine's annual 'Awards for Excellence'. The bank has received a total of 16 awards across a wide range of categories and geographies, such as Best Bank in the Netherlands, Paraguay and Uruguay; Best at Cash Management in Western Europe; Best Debt House in the Netherlands, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Argentina; Best Loan House in Russia, Turkey, and Brazil; Best Project Finance House in Asia. Quotes from the article published in the July issue of Euromoney: "ABN AMRO wins the best debt house in Central Asia, in part thanks to its excellent oil and gas team, which has done large financings for some of the biggest oil fields in the region, including TengizChevroil's $1.1 billion bond issue for the onshore Tengiz field in Kazakhstan. The bank has also done deals for financials, such as Bank TuranAlem, and for telecoms, such as Kazaktelekom. ABN AMRO wins the award for best debt house in Kazakhstan. It tops the league table in bond issues, having lead managed all corporate deals in 2004, including the most successful bond issue, TengizChevroil's $1.1 billion investment-grade deal." Main deals of ABN AMRO in 2004: US$375 mln bonds for Bank TuranAlem; US$ 1.1 bln bonds for TengizChevroil; US$ 250 mln debut Eurobonds issue and US$ 150 mln bridge facility for KazTransGas; US$ 122 mln buyer credit, US$ 70 mln term loan and US$ 70 mln Bridge facility for Kazakhstan Temir Zholy; 2 US$ 5 mln loans to Kazakhtelecom. Press Enquiries: Sulushash Magziyeva, Almaty+7 3272 581505 (*435), mob.: +7 333 270 2752 Speakers: Martin Born, Director, Russia and CIS, Euromoney Alina Aldambergen, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, ABN AMRO in Kazakhstan Notes to Editors: ABN AMRO Netherlands-based ABN AMRO is a leading international bank with total assets of EUR 742.9 bln (as at 31 March 2005). It has over 3,000 branches in more than 60 countries and territories, and has a staff of about 97,000 full-time equivalents worldwide. ABN AMRO is listed on the Euronext and New York stock exchanges. "SJSB "ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan" JSC "SJSB "ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan" JSC is a 80% subsidiary of ABN AMRO, the Netherlands-based international bank with total assets of EUR 742.9 bln (as of 31 March 2005) and over 3,000 branches in more than 60 countries and territories. [2005-07-20]