Loan House of the Year: BBVA
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. In the Latin American loan capital market, BBVA aims to be a pioneer in providing innovative financing solutions. Yet engineering new products has not come at the expense of overall deal volume. In 2018,…
Law Firm of the Year: Mexico: Creel
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. While changes in tax and securities regulations often come from the top down, undercurrents of demand in the market can also drive bottom up reform. That certainly was the case for Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza…
Law Firm of the Year: Argentina: Bruchou, Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. With Argentina facing growing sovereign risk in the second half of 2018, issuers knew they had to move quickly if they planned to issue new debt. Two of the most notable transactions during this…
Law Firm of the Year: Andes: Garrigues
This firm has consolidated its position as a regional leader in the Andes. In Peru it advised on the finance of InRetail’s acquisition of Quicorp. It also advised on Hunt Oil’s $600 million bond sale. Please congratulate Garrigues.
Trade Financing of the Year: Suzano Papel e Celulose
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. When Brazilian pulp and paper producer Suzano Papel e Celulose acquired rival Fibria, the transaction wasn’t only one of the biggest M&A deals in Latin America in 2018, it also created a new leader…
Structured Financing of the Year: Energias del Valle de Mexico II
When this year’s winner closed the financing for its greenfield gas-fired plant in Mexico, it included an impressive array of components — a $469 million project bond, a $125 million term loan and $146 million in letters of credit. Its size impressed and the project bond was the first for a greenfield gas-fired plant after…
Sovereign Liability Management of the Year: Mexico
In January of last year, in a transaction carried out just days into the new year, tonight’s winner took the opportunity to carry out a $3.2 billion dual tranche global notes offering and an intraday switch and cash tender offer. The transaction helped the winner raise $2.6 billion in new money to fund a significant…
Sovereign Issuer of the Year: Dominican Republic
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. Days before the Dominican Republic approached the international bond markets in February 2018, global stock indices were roiling. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1,175 points on Feb. 5, and the rout rippled across…
Sovereign Bond of the Year: Mexico
Last January, this year’s winner demonstrated the global appeal for its paper, while diversifying its funding sources, with 1.5 billion euro issuance. It was the country’s first Eurobond issue since October 2016 and allowed it to finalize its funding needs ahead of possible volatile market conditions tied to the country’s presidential election. It was a…
Restructuring of the Year: Oi
This company completed a complex debt restructuring in a deal with is creditors that ended an 18-month impasse after the company defaulted on $20 billion in debt, including $10 billion in international bonds. After a marathon 15-hour final meeting, creditors overwhelming approved the plan, which marked the largest private sector restructuring in Latin America. Please…
Quasi-Sovereign Bond of the Year: Pemex
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. Pemex has repeatedly shown a knack for making award-winning transactions. Last February the state-owned oil company also showed a knack for good timing. It raised $4 billion in a dual tranche bond sale and…
Private Equity Deal of the Year: OHL
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. IFM Investors’ $2.6 billion acquisition of Spain’s OHL Concesiones, which closed last April, is notable for many reasons. It was the biggest transportation infrastructure deal in Latin America in 2018. It was the firm’s…
Local Currency Deal of the Year: Province of Buenos Aires
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. Argentine officials have long set a priority of growing its local currency debt offerings. Buenos Aires province, the largest in Argentina, issued ARS30 billion ($1.4.9 billion) in Euroclear paper in April i2018 n a…
Law Firm of the Year: Latin America: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. Cleary Gottlieb continued to demonstrate its strength in 2018, representing a broad array of clients in standout transactions. Whether it was a leading sovereign or corporate bond offering,a key M&A transaction or corporate restructuring,…
Law Firm of the Year: Brazil: Pinheiro Neto
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. While 2017 signaled the end of Brazil’s recession, growth in 2018 hovered around 1% amid large fiscal deficits, legislative deadlock and political uncertainty ahead of the country’s presidential election. Still, it proved to be…
Investment Bank and M&A House of the Year: Bank of America Merrill Lynch
When it comes to M&A, last year was a banner year for our next award winner. It expanded its list of clients and Advised on a dozen cross-border deals, along with six national transactions. And it led 17 deals across different industries. In fact, it led all landmark and high-profile deals in key countries in…
Initial Public Offering of the Year: PagSeguro
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. When it comes to initial public offerings, 2018 was a pretty good year. Despite periodic grousing that there weren’t enough companies going public, there were 274 IPOs last year that raised almost $65 billion,…
Financing Innovation of the Year: CELSE
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. Funding a large $1.7 billion project is rarely an easy task. That is even more so the case for a 1.5 GW LNG-to-power project slated to become Latin America’s largest thermoelectric plant, and whose…
Equity House of the Year: Goldman Sachs
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. Goldman Sachs deepened its presence in Latin America over the past year, taking the lead role in some of the biggest transactions across multiple jurisdictions and industries, while participating in many of the region’s…
Equity Follow-On of the Year: SQM
The winning transaction in this category this year did with a impressive $993 million follow-on offering — one of the largest ever in Latin America. Investors piled into the equity sale, which came after China’s Tianqi agreed to pay a little over $4bn for a 24% stake in the company. The winner of this year’s…
Domestic M&A Deal of the Year: InRetail
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. With antitrust legislation circulating through the Peruvian Congress, merging the first and second largest pharmaceutical chains in the country required a tremendous level of skill and discretion. But at the end of the deal,…
Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year: Enel Americas
Next up is the award for Cross-Border M&A of the Year! This transaction helped the winner to jump to becoming Brazil’s #1 power distribution player. It was the winner after a a multi-step competitive bidding process and procedural complexities. In the end, it positioned the winner as the largest individual power distribution company in Brazil…
Corporate Issuer, Corporate Liability Management and Syndicated Loan of the Year: Petrobras
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. Over the last few years, Petrobras has been on a mission to cut its debt load, sell assets and reduce costs to get its financial house in order. And the company is undoubtedly in…
Corporate High-Yield Bond of the Year: Tecpetrol
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. Tecpetrol took advantage of strong US demand for Argentine paper and strong operational performance to raise $500 million through unsecured notes at 4.875%, which priced quite competitively compared to fellow high-yield issuers. The notes…
Corporate High-Grade Bond of the Year: Peru LNG
Don’t miss your chance to submit deals for our 2019 awards. Sign up here to receive email alerts when nominations open. As a first-time issuer in the cross-border bond market, Peru LNG drew keen attention from global investors when it issued a high-yield bond last March. At $940 million, priced at 5.375%, it was the…
Bond House of the Year: Citi
Our next winner showed its strength across different countries and also helping some of Latin America’s biggest corporate names like Pemex and Petrobras. It also helped steer first-time issuers to the bond market Peru LNG. While the transactions varied in amounts and terms, one constant was the participation of this bank in all these deals.…