Tokyo-The Japanese government named four investment banks to help sell an estimated $4,5 billion of state-owned shares in two railway companies, awarding the securities firms a mandate to handle what might be among the world's biggest equity sales this year. After a heated competition, an agency that manages the government's holdings in the two railways said it selected Nikko Salomon Smith Barney and UBS Warburg to arrange the sale of stock in West Japan Railway Co., the larger of the two sales. Nomura Securities and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. were hired to arrange the sale of shares in East Japan Railway Co. For the winners, the deal amounts to a feast in a famished industry. Bankers estimate that the two share sales will raise a combined 600 billion yen ($4.5 billion) for the Japanese government, and more than nine billion yen in fees for the brokers.
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机译：东京-日本政府任命了四家投资银行，以帮助出售两家铁路公司中的约45亿美元国有股，授予证券公司处理今年全球最大股票交易的授权。经过激烈的竞争，一家管理政府在这两条铁路中的股份的机构称，已选择日航所罗门·史密斯·巴尼（Nikko Salomon Smith Barney）和瑞银华宝（UBS Warburg）安排出售西日本铁路公司的股票，这是两笔交易中较大的一笔。聘请野村证券（Nomura Securities）和高盛集团（Goldman Sachs Group Inc.）安排出售东日本铁路公司（East Japan Railway Co.）的股份。对于获胜者来说，这笔交易对整个行业而言是一场盛宴。银行家估计，这两次股票出售将为日本政府筹集总计6000亿日元（合45亿美元），并为券商收取超过90亿日元的费用。
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