Author Archives: LatinFinance Awards

Argentina has pumped oil for more than a century, but its ambitions to become a global crude exporter were long constrained by infrastructure gaps, capital scarcity and macroeconomic volatility. That […]

Any time Codelco comes to market, investors expect a benchmark transaction: size, duration, disciplined execution and pricing that reflects both Chile’s sovereign strength and the copper producer’s own credit standing. […]

In a year marked by volatile markets, geopolitical shocks and selective investor risk appetite, JBS delivered one of the most comprehensive and convincing capital markets performances ever seen from a […]

As economic activity rebounded in Chile and Peru over the past year, Garrigues emerged as one of the most influential legal advisors in both markets, deploying its integrated, one-stop-shop model […]

Latin America’s investment banking rebound in 2025 surprised many market participants. It did not surprise JP Morgan. Alfonso Eyzaguirre, the bank’s CEO for Latin America and Canada, says the region […]

Taking a public company private is rarely straightforward. Doing so in Mexico, through a mandatory tender offer, a short-dated bridge facility and a multi-layered private capital refinancing that brought new […]

El Salvador’s Comisión Ejecutiva Hidroeléctrica del Río Lempa rewrote the country’s capital-markets playbook in 2025 with an inaugural international bond that combined scale, structure and timing in a way few […]

South America’s commodity powerhouses rely on infrastructure corridors to move product to market. Few are as critical — or as underappreciated — as the Paraná–Paraguay Waterway, a 4,000-kilometer river system […]

Ritch Mueller marked its 50th anniversary in 2025 not with nostalgia but with dominance. The firm outpaced rivals across both deal volume and transaction value, cementing its position as Mexico’s […]

Volatility defined global markets in 2025, but in Central America it proved less an obstacle than a filter, separating episodic activity from sustained execution. Few institutions demonstrated that distinction as […]