The submission portal for LatinFinance’s 2025 Deals of the Year Awards opens on Monday, September 22 and closes promptly at 11:59 PM ET on Friday, October 10, 2025. For scheduling reasons, no extensions can be granted this year, which is why the portal opens a week earlier than in prior years. If you’d like to participate, use our nomination portal to collaborate with colleagues and submit your deals for consideration. Click here to submit starting on September 22.

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Below is a list of this year’s categories and the required data for each. Please review carefully prior to your submission. Note that deals must have closed between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025 in order to be considered.


The full list of 2025 Deals of the Year winners can be found in the Q2 2025 edition of LatinFinance Magazine. Click here to see the full list of 2024 winners.

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Categories

Following is the full list of provisional categories for this year’s awards:

Issuer Awards:
1. Sovereign Issuer of the Year
2. Corporate Issuer of the Year
3. Sustainable Issuer of the Year – Sovereign
4. Sustainable Issuer of the Year – Corporate
5. Debut Issuer of the Year

Transaction Awards:
6. Sovereign Bond of the Year
7. Quasi-Sovereign Bond of the Year
8. Corporate High-Grade Bond of the Year
9. Corporate High-Yield Bond of the Year
10. Quasi-Sovereign High-Grade Bond of the Year

11. Quasi-Sovereign High-Yield Bond of the Year
12. Sovereign Liability Management Deal of the Year
13. Quasi-Sovereign Liability Management Deal of the Year
14. Corporate Liability Management Deal of the Year
15. Subnational Deal of the Year
16. Loan of the Year

17. Sovereign Restructuring of the Year
18. Corporate Restructuring of the Year
19. Financial Institutions Deal of the Year
20. Sovereign Local Currency Deal of the Year
21. Quasi-Sovereign Local Currency Deal of the Year

22. Corporate Local Currency Deal of the Year
23. Structured Financing of the Year

24. Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) Deal of the Year
25. Development Finance Institution (DFI)-Backed Deal of the Year
26. Financing Innovation of the Year

27. Initial Public Offering of the Year
28. Equity Follow-On of the Year
29. Private Equity Deal of the Year
30. Private Debt Deal of the Year

31. Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year
32. Domestic M&A Deal of the Year

33. Sovereign Sustainable Deal of the Year
34. Corporate Sustainable Deal of the Year

Institution Awards:
35. Law Firm of the Year – Argentina
36. Law Firm of the Year – Brazil
37. Law Firm of the Year – Chile
38. Law Firm of the Year – Colombia
39. Law Firm of the Year – Peru
40. Law Firm of the Year – Mexico
41. Law Firm of the Year – Caribbean
42. Law Firm of the Year – Central America
43. Law Firm of the Year – Latin America
44. Law Firm of the Year – Sustainable Finance

45. Investment Bank of the Year – Argentina
46. Investment Bank of the Year – Brazil
47. Investment Bank of the Year – Chile
48. Investment Bank of the Year – Colombia
49. Investment Bank of the Year – Mexico
50. Investment Bank of the Year – Peru
51. Investment Bank of the Year – Caribbean
52. Investment Bank of the Year – Central America
53. Investment Bank of the Year – Latin America

54. Boutique Advisory Firm of the Year
55. Bond House of the Year
56. M&A House of the Year
57. Equity House of the Year
58. Loan House of the Year

Criteria 

Below are the main criteria for judging LatinFinance’s 2025 Deals of the Year Awards. For all categories, we will consider transactions that reached financial close between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025. 

Transaction Award Categories (6– 34): 

  • Market significance; strategic importance; and groundbreaking qualities 
  • Structural aspects of the transaction, including complexity, innovation and size 
  • Execution, including price and demand achieved compared to other references in the market and with regard to conditions at the time 
  • Secondary market performance, and reception by peers and investors 
  • Geographical reach, where relevant 
  • Sustainability / ESG impact of the project 

Issuer Award Categories (1–5) and Institution Award Categories (35–58): 

  • Overall strategy, volume and diversity of transactions 
  • Innovation and foresight 
  • Execution quality and success of transactions worked on 
  • Role in particularly complex, innovative, or large deals over the year 
  • Quantity of transactions worked on over the year, and compared to previous years 
  • Incorporation of sustainability / ESG considerations into relevant transactions  

Selection Process 

LatinFinance‘s 2025 Deals of the Year Awards are decided solely by LatinFinance’s editors following an extensive research process. 

The key elements of each step of the process are outlined below. 

Market consultation 

LatinFinance editors can, at their discretion, discuss the relative merits of shortlisted transactions and institutions with a wide range of market participants, while maintaining the integrity of the nomination process. 

Examination of financial data 

LatinFinance will research data and other publicly available information for each of the nominated transactions and institutions. As is relevant in each category, such data will include, but not be limited to: presentations on the projects being financed, stock exchange filings, transaction pricing details, secondary market trading data. 

Nominations are required to include all relevant CUSIP, ISIN, or unique identifiers that are publicly available to pinpoint exactly which assets are being nominated for a potential award. Non-public transactions that are submitted through the formal nominations process need to have accompanying documentation for appropriate examination if they are to be considered for an award. Special circumstances or technological limitations should be discussed with the editorial department by emailing awards@latinfinance.com. 

Editorial evaluation 

LatinFinance’s editorial team retains discretion over the final allocation of awards in each category. The final decision will be based on nominations, market consultation, research of financial data, and feedback on transactions over the course of the awards review period. 

LatinFinance reserves the right to withhold naming a category winner or to further delineate and sub-divide categories at its own discretion.  

Announcements & Awards Dinner

Award winners will be informed in November 2025 with the news embargoed until the Awards Dinner and ceremony on Thursday, January 29, 2026. The Awards Dinner will take place in New York City.

Nominations 

All entries must be submitted through the official nomination form at awards.latinfinance.com. The nomination period opens on September 22, 2025, and closes promptly at 11:59 PM ET on October 10, 2025. 

Please note the entry deadline is final. The system will automatically prevent entry submission after the deadline. 

Please be sure to coordinate with other members of your institution to ensure ONE submission per institution. Our platform makes it simple to share and review the draft submission before finalizing. 

Institutions (financial institutions, law firms, consultancies, investors, corporates, government entities, rating agencies, advisors) working in the financial and capital markets may nominate ONE transaction or institution in a given category (1-58).

Please note the following features of our awards platform: 

  • You may edit your entry after submitting, up until the entry deadline. 
  • You have the ability to enter documents and review them within your teams, collaborate on information, formulations and create the most thorough summary of information BEFORE you submit. 
  • You can enter, edit and review your entries on your mobile device. 
  • Either log in at awards.latinfinance.com or scan the QR code on the PDF version of your draft or final entry. 
  • You can use the copy feature to create a copy of your entry and change the category as required. 
  • When you register, please make sure all your personal details are entered accurately, including contact details, as this will be used to contact in case of questions regarding the nomination. It will also be the way we inform winners.

Required data

For categories 6–34, nominations must include the data in sections 1, 2 and 3 below. For categories 1–5 and categories 30–53, nominations must include the data in sections 4 and 5 below. All items are required unless otherwise indicated.

Section 1: Deal information

This section is required for categories 6–34

  • Deal name
  • Deal type (bond, loan, IPO, etc)
  • Closing date (must be between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025)
  • Total deal size in USD
  • Total deal size in local FX
  • FX conversion rate
  • Maturity date
  • Coupon/yield
  • Number of transactions/tranches involved in the deal
  • Issuing entity, bond/loan, transaction size, coupon, yield, issuance price, ID (eg: CUSIP/ISIN/Ticker symbol), fixed/floating, maturity date and closing date for each transaction/tranche involved in the deal

Section 2: Deal participants

This section is required for categories 6–34

  • Issuer(s) / Deal sponsor(s) / Acquiror 
  • Legal jurisdictions associated with the issued assets (eg: New York Law, where appropriate)
  • Role of your institution (eg: mandated lead arranger, lead bookrunner, co-lead, support, etc.)
  • Names of ALL supporting banks and/or bankers involved (name of bank, role of bank, name of banker, lead banker (Y/N), contact phone, contact email, location)
  • Names of ALL supporting law firms and/or partners involved (name of law firm, role of law firm, name of partner, lead partner (Y/N), contact phone, contact email, location)
  • Names of other institutions involved (eg: investors/consultants/technical advisors etc.)
  • Name of CEO/CFO at Nominated Issuer / Deal Sponsor entity (Note: Submissions will not be considered without this information)
  • Contact information (email and phone) of CEO/CFO at Nominated Issuer / Deal Sponsor / Acquiror entity  (Note: Submissions will not be considered without this information)

Section 3: Additional questions

This section is required for categories 6–34.

  • Why is this deal worthy of an award? (up to 1000 words)

Section 4: Deals (supporting Institutional Award Submissions)

This section is required for categories 1–5 and categories 35–58. Institutional excellence will be judged in part by the deals in which nominated institutions participated. The following fields must be completed for each deal included to support your nomination.

  • Deal name
  • Deal type
  • Issuer / Deal sponsor / Acquiror 
  • Closing date (must be between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025)
  • Total deal size in USD
  • Total deal size in local FX
  • FX conversion rate
  • Maturity date
  • Number of transactions/tranches involved in the deal
  • ID (eg: CUSIP/ISIN/Ticker symbol), deal size in USD, deal size in local FX, price, yield, coupon and maturity date for each transaction/tranche involved in the deal
  • Please explain why this deal was included in your nomination. Be sure to include any relevant ESG details and why this deal stands out in the marketplace (up to 300 words)
  • Please list the names, titles and contact information for ALL bankers and legal counsel involved in the deal
  • Name of CEO/Managing Partner/Relevant Executive at Nominated Institution 
  • Contact information (email and phone) for CEO/Managing Partner/Relevant Executive at Nominated Institution 

Section 5: Additional Questions (for Institutional Award Submissions)

This section is required for categories 1–5 and categories 35–58.

Why do you believe that your institution is worthy of an award? (up to 1,000 words)