Category: Deals of the Year Awards

Political ructions in Mexico and Brazil, Latin America’s two biggest economies, set the stage for a tumultuous period in which to sell debt. Mexico’s election of a left-wing president and Brazil’s choice of a right-wing leader didn’t give investors a trend on which they could easily ride. Instead the marketplace offered volatility and uncertainty. However, […]

JPMorgan flexed its muscle in Latin America’s equity capital markets, participating in some of the region’s top IPOs. Working across several sectors, the US investment bank demonstrated its range to win LatinFinance’s Equity House of the Year award. JPMorgan was among three lead joint underwriters for Brazil payments processor, StoneCo Ltd, which raised $1.22 billion […]

Activity in Latin America’s mergers and acquisitions space may have tapered ever so slightly in the latest reporting period. Still, for a second year in a row, Bank of America has proven its ability to top the league tables when it comes to fee collection. BofA advised on 18 deals with Latin American involvement, according […]

Global debt levels at the end of the awards reporting period reached an all-time high of nearly $253 trillion, according to the Institute of International Finance, with emerging market debt rising two-fold since 2010 to $72 trillion. That kind of crescendo in indebtedness occurred during a period when trade, regulatory and economic growth issues experienced […]

toCommanding a broad spectrum of involvement across the region and across asset classes, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett turned in an impressive performance that earned it this year’s Law Firm of the Year award for Latin America. The team, led by Todd Crider and David Williams, found themselves working on standout deals such as América Móvil’s […]

The start of any new government brings uncertainty, and in Mexico this was no exception. Ritch, Mueller, Heather y Nicolau once again found itself in the center of the action, advising on some of the Year’s largest and most important transactions. “It was quite a change in government from what we had before. They are […]

The long list of transactions taking place in Brazil in the past year invariably received advice from Mattos Filho, demonstrating the breadth and reach of the firm’s corporate practice. Its involvement cut across the range of categories, from financing innovation to domestic and cross-border M&A transactions that were among standouts in the region. Mattos Filho […]

Argentina’s deep economic troubles sent a chill across the country’s debt and equity markets over the past year. State-run energy company YPF ended a 14-month drought for Argentine issuers in the cross-border market in June with a $500 million bond sale, a deal Tanoira Cassange Abogados advised on. The transaction was one of several YPF […]

Garrigues has repeatedly shown a knack for working on some of Peru’s top capital markets deals and 2018-2019 was a particularly strong year for the firm. The firm was involved in two award-winning deals carried out by the Peruvian government, including the sovereign issuer’s November 2018 sale of $3.06 billion in sol-denominated bonds — the […]

Weeks after SoftBank announced the launch of a $5 billion technology fund focused on Latin America, the company made a marquee investment in the Colombian start-up and delivery app Rappi. Through two of its funds, including its new Latin America-focused Innovation Fund, Japan-based SoftBank invested $1 billion in Rappi in April 2019 — the largest […]