LatinFinance’s Deals of the Year Awards for 2015 celebrate excellence in the capital markets of Latin America and the Caribbean from October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015. The awards recognize outstanding transactions as well as the people and institutions that made them happen.
Nominations closed
Thank you for your interest in LatinFinance’s 2015 Deals of the Year Awards. The nominations period has now closed. Stay tuned for the winners, which will be announced in our January edition.
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Sovereign Issuer of the Year
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Sovereign Bond of the Year
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Corporate Issuer of the Year
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Quasi-Sovereign Bond of the Year
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Financing Innovation of the Year
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Corporate High-Grade Bond of the Year
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Corporate High-Yield Bond of the Year
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Sovereign Liability Management of the Year
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Corporate Liability Management of the Year
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Equity Follow-On of the Year
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Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year
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Initial Public Offering of the Year
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Private Equity Deal of the Year
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Domestic M&A Deal of the Year
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Syndicated Loan of the Year
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Restructuring of the Year
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Local Currency Deal of the Year
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Structured Financing of the Year
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Trade Finance of the Year
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Law Firm of the Year: Latam
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Law Firm of the Year: Brazil
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Law Firm of the Year: Mexico
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Law Firm of the Year: Andes
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Bond House of the Year
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Equity House of the Year
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M&A House of the Year
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Loan House of the Year
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Investment Bank of the Year
Categories
Provisional categories for LatinFinance’s 2015 Deals of the Year Awards are listed below. Activity from October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015 will be considered.
- Sovereign Issuer of the Year
- Corporate Issuer of the Year
- Sovereign Bond of the Year
- Quasi-Sovereign Bond of the Year
- Corporate High-Grade Bond of the Year
- Corporate High-Yield Bond of the Year
- Sovereign Liability Management of the Year
- Corporate Liability Management of the Year
- Initial Public Offering of the Year
- Equity Follow-On of the Year
- Private Equity Deal of the Year
- Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year
- Domestic M&A Deal of the Year
- Syndicated Loan of the Year
- Financing Innovation of the Year
- Restructuring of the Year
- Local Currency Deal
- Structured Financing of the Year
- Trade Financing of the Year
- Law Firm of the Year: LatAm
- Law Firm of the Year: Mexico
- Law Firm of the Year: Brazil
- Law Firm of the Year: Andes
- Bond House of the Year
- M&A House of the Year
- Equity House of the Year
- Loan House of the Year
- Investment Bank of the Year
Criteria
The following lists highlight the main criteria to be used in judging LatinFinance’s 2015 Deals of the Year awards. For all categories, we consider transactions that have closed between October 1, 2014 and September 30, 2015.
Issuers:
Categories 1 and 2 will be judged on:
- Extent of participation in the bond, loan and equity markets over the year, including the volume and diversity of deals
- Sophistication of issuance strategy, including innovation and foresight
- Structural aspects of transactions, success of issuances and geographical reach of deals
Deals:
Categories 3 to 19 will be judged on:
- 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 with regard to conditions at the time
- Secondary market performance, and reception by peers and investors
- Geographic reach where relevant
Investment Banks and Law Firms:
Categories 20 to 28 will be judged on:
- 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
Selection process
Pitches
Market participants are invited to nominate one transaction or institution per award category. This must be submitted via the official nomination form, which must be returned to awards@latinfinance.comas an excel document. Institutions are welcome to submit further documentation to support their pitch.
LatinFinance will accept written pitches until Friday October 2, 2015.
LatinFinance editorial staff will be available for award pitch meetings and conference calls between September 25 and October 16.
Further details regarding the pitching process can be requested by email
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Examination of data
LatinFinance will review official data for each of the transactions and institutions pitched, and others the selection team believes merit consideration. Data and information reviewed includes pitch documents and comments from meetings, Dealogic data, recommendations from clients and LatinFinance reporting.
Editorial evaluation
LatinFinance’s editorial team retains discretion over the final allocation of awards in each category. The final decision will be based on information supplied in pitch documents and meetings or calls, research of financial data and analysis, interviews, and our knowledge of markets and activity over the course of the past 12 months.
Announcement
Winners will be informed by October 23 with the news embargoed until winners are publicly announced at our awards dinner in New York on January 14, 2016.
Submit your nomination
Reviewed the selection process, criteria and categories?
Download the nomination form and send the completed document in excel format, along with any supporting material, by email before end of day on October 2.
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Contact
General enquiries should be sent to srosner@latinfinance.com with “Deals of the Year” in the subject line.
Category-specific inquiries should be addressed to the primary journalist for each category, as follows:
Patrick Ferguson patrick.ferguson@latinfinance.com
Corporate Issuer of the Year
Corporate Liability Management of the Year
Corporate High-Grade Bond of the Year
Corporate High-Yield Bond of the Year
Bond House of the Year
Sovereign Bond of the Year
Sovereign Issuer of the Year
Quasi-Sovereign Bond of the Year
Sovereign Liability Management of the Year
Jennifer Roig jennifer.roig@latinfinance.com
Local Currency Deal of the Year
Syndicated Loan of the Year
Law Firm of the Year: Mexico
Law Firm of the Year: Andes
Law Firm of the Year: Brazil
Law Firm of the Year: Latin America
Trade Financing of the Year
Restructuring of the Year
Sara Rosner srosner@latinfinance.com
Financing Innovation of the Year
Structured Financing of the Year
Investment Bank of the Year
Aaron Weinman aaron.weinman@latinfinance.com
Domestic M&A Deal of the Year
Initial Public Offering of the Year
Equity Follow-On of the Year
M&A House of the Year
Equity House of the Year
Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year
Private Equity Deal of the Year