AES’s sizable pipeline of projects in LatAm gives it an enviable position when it comes to bargaining with lenders. Chilean unit AES Gener succeeded in closing in October 27 a $989 million project financing with a 17.5-year tenor.
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BEST SUB-SOVEREIGN FINANCING
Capitalizing on upgrades and market opportunity, State of Mexico declined to use any major investment banks for its 25 billion peso refinance which extended duration and slashed the price on most liabilities.
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BEST FINANCING INNOVATION
Afores have in recent years been flush with cash to spend on long-term investments. Restrictions on where they can put it, however, have limited their options and often diverted funds from projects.
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BEST CORPORATE ISSUER/EQUITY FOLLOW-ON
Gerdau, the Brazilian multinational steel company with assets spread around the region and in the US, has been the most frequent user of LatAm capital markets in the past year.
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BEST SYNDICATED LOAN/CORPORATE BOND ISSUE
Braskem’s March 2007 bid to acquire Ipiranga and Copesul unleashed a series of financings that kept the Brazilian petrochemicals giant in constant discussions with its bankers, lenders and investors through the subsequent 18-month period.
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BEST QUASI-SOVEREIGN BOND/FINANCIAL INSTITUTION BOND
BNDES has not been a frequent issuer in the dollar bond markets this decade. When the time came to refinance notes issued in 1998, however, the Brazilian development bank brought a well priced new 10-year bond that preserved the 0% withholding tax structure featured in the original issue.
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DEALS OF THE YEAR RESULTS
Closing a transaction was enough to call it a success in 2008 as markets disintegrated. The LatinFinance Deals of the Year celebrate triumph over adversity.
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BEST CORPORATE LIABILITY MANAGEMENT
By the second quarter of 2008, the Dominican Republic’s capital markets, spurred on by three years of GDP growth rates topping 9%, had gradually become ripe for sizeable corporate issuance.
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BEST INVESTMENT BANK/M&A HOUSE
Extending three years of robust gains, Credit Suisse continues to monopolize the LatAm fee pool thanks to a senior team that appears to be burning the candle at both ends. In the full year 2008, it amassed $247 million in revenue from core investment banking – M&A, ECM and DCM – or 21% of the market, according to Dealogic. Second was UBS with $132 million, or 11%.
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BEST LOCAL CURRENCY FINANCING/STRUCTURED BOND
As LatAm expands, the road to infrastructure improvement would seem to run through the pockets of increasingly liquid pension funds.