Most analytical deal: The Milton Keynes office of Howes Percival advised Tokairo, the document management company, on its acquisition for £1.6 million by text analysis software experts Corpora. Tokairo's clients include the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US, TNT Logistics, Dairy Crest, and Exel Logistics. Manchester firm Smithsons advised Corpora.

Most innovative deal: Manchester firm Rowe Cohen advised the shareholders of Innovative Medical Products, the orthopaedic and sports medicine products supplier, on its £11 million sale to Icelandic company Ossur. City firm Richards Butler acted for Ossur.


Most Teutonic deal: London firm Olswang advised Dawnay Day Treveria on its admission to the Alternative Investment Market and an associated 375 million euro (£256 million) placing. The deal is the second largest fundraising in the market's history. The company intends to use the funds to acquire a retail property portfolio in prime locations in Germany. City firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised the global co-ordinators Citigroup and Deutsche Bank.


Most electric deal: City firm Lawrence Graham advised Bristol-based Marine Current Turbines (MCT) on the recent investment by EDF Energy in its SeaGen project to create a commercial tidal farm. The project, which is also backed by the Department of Trade and Industry, will see the construction of an underwater twin-turbine device with a 1,000-kilowatt capacity in Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland. This will provide electricity for 800 homes locally. The in-house team at EDF advised on the utility company's investment.


Most commercial deal: National firm Pinsent Masons and the in-house team at Aviva advised RAC on the sale by its Lex Transfleet arm of its commercial fleet operations to Fraikin, a French fleet hire and rental business, for an undisclosed sum. The Reading office of Morgan Cole acted for the purchaser.