The mandate of development finance institutions is often described in simple terms: provide long-term capital on reasonable terms while mobilizing private investment to support economic growth. In practice, few transactions […]
Author Archives: LatinFinance Awards
Law Firm of the Year: Latin America
Cleary Gottlieb secures the award for Law Firm of the Year – Latin America for the sixth consecutive year after again leaving its imprint on many of the region’s most […]
Investment Bank of the Year: Caribbean
Citi asserted its leadership in the Caribbean in 2025 by executing some of the region’s most consequential sovereign and cross-border transactions as global investors cautiously returned to smaller frontier markets. […]
Equity Follow-On of the Year
When Grupo Financiero Galicia agreed in late 2024 to acquire HSBC’s banking operations in Argentina, it confronted a familiar dilemma at uncommon scale. The estimated $1.1 billion purchase price had […]
Quasi-Sovereign Liability Management Deal of the Year
Pemex’s $9.9 billion tender offer was not just large — it was precisely timed. Executed in September at the tail end of a coordinated sovereign funding program, the liability-management operation […]
Corporate Liability Management Deal of the Year
Mexico’s largest private power generator in 2025 delivered one of the most ambitious liability-management exercises ever executed by a Latin American corporate. Saavi Energía, which has permitted generation capacity of […]
Investment Bank of the Year: Peru
As Peruvian issuers cautiously returned to international capital markets in 2025, Citi consolidated its position as a leading investment bank in the country, capturing the award for Investment Bank of […]
Financial Institutions Deal of the Year
Banco Industrial’s latest diversified payment rights (DPR) transaction was not simply another outing for a familiar funding tool. It was a market-defining deal that reset benchmarks for scale, tenor and […]
Investment Bank of the Year: Argentina
Argentina’s return to international capital markets gathered real momentum over the past year, driven by fiscal adjustment, falling inflation and a renewed appetite for strategic investment. Against that backdrop, Goldman […]
Debut Issuer of the Year
Grupo Nutresa’s debut in the international capital markets in 2025 marked a turning point for both the company and Colombia’s corporate bond market. Its $2 billion bridge-to-bond financing was the […]
