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Acknowledgements

A detailed book of case studies cannot be completed without information and advice from

many experts. In particular, the author would like to acknowledge the never-ending patience

of Stuart Allen, Johanna Geary, Elizabeth Gray and Paul McNamara of Euromoney Books

and the generous assistance provided by the following individuals, listed alphabetically.

Dino Barajas, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Brandon A. Blaylock, GE Capital Services Structured Finance Group

Jonathan D. Bram, CS First Boston

William H. Chew, Standard & Poor’s

Rohn Crabtree, Calpine

Ana Demel, Cleary, Gottleib, Steen & Hamilton

Elizabeth U. Eshbach, Darden Graduate Business School Library, University of Virginia

Benjamin Esty, Harvard Business School

Roger D. Feldman, Bingham McCutchen

Barry P. Gold, Citigroup

David Gore, Société Générale Asia

James F. Guidera, Credit Lyonnais

Richard Hunter, Fitch Ratings

Ken Hawkes, Mibank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Piyush Joshi, British Gas India

Stephen T. Kargman, Export-Import Bank of the United States

Kenneth M. Koprowski, GE Capital Services Structured Finance Group

John W. Kunkle, Fitch Ratings

Barry N. Machlin, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw

Jan Willem Plantagie, Standard & Poor’s

John S. Strong, School of Business Administration, College of William & Mary,

and World Bank

Robert L.K. Tiong, Nanyang Technological University, Singpaore

Brian Urban, Panda Energy

Enid Veron, Bingham McCutchen

Gary Wigmore, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Jacob J. Worenklein, Société Générale

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