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Project Sponsor of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Matrix Renewables
Two years ago, Matrix Renewables was just being established. But in the time since, theMadrid-based, private equity-backed newcomer has worked at a breakneck pace not only toestablish itself in Latin America’s renewable energy market – where it has acquired aformidable portfolio of assets across the region – but to apply a sophisticated approach tofinancing that has seen it win favorable terms on a handful of deals. […]
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Infrastructure Bank of the Year – Southern Cone
Year: 2022
Winner: Santander CIB
Infrastructure financing volumes have been thin across the Southern Cone this past year – withthe glaring exception of Chile.“The infrastructure asset class continues to generate investors’ appetite in Chile,” says BenoitFelix, the global head of Structured Finance at Santander CIB, […]
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Infrastructure Bank of the Year – Central America
Year: 2022
Winner: Citi
Multi billion-dollar infrastructure projects in the smaller markets of Central America requirefinanciers with deep pockets and access to global capital markets.When you have multiple projects of that scale, with complex financing needs, as companies inPanama did, they are going to seek out the biggest and most experienced, […]
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Infrastructure Bank of the Year – Caribbean
Year: 2022
Winner: Scotiabank
While in some parts of Latin America, political headwinds have slowed or stalled infrastructuredeals, for the Caribbean it’s been plain sailing. Stable economic policies in economies such asthe Dominican Republic have allowed project sponsors to access the bond and loan marketsand even to raise green capital.Canadian financial group Scotiabank had a key role in major deals, […]
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Infrastructure Bank of the Year – Brazil
Year: 2022
Winner: Bradesco BBI
In a difficult market environment, infrastructure developers have faced challenges in financingor refinancing their projects. In the case of Brazil, a robust bank sector has by and large helpedthem find solutions to their funding needs.Bradesco BBI, which wins the award for Infrastructure Bank of the Year – Brazil, […]
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Infrastructure Bank of the Year – Andes
Year: 2022
Winner: Bancolombia
Colombia’s marketplace for infrastructure projects and financings has grown substantially inrecent years, and local banks are increasingly supporting the biggest deals on the table.Bancolombia, the country’s largest financial institution, was involved in no less than three localinfrastructure projects that picked up awards, […]
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Infrastructure Bank of the Year – Latin America, Mexico & Financial Advisor of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: SMBC
The role of financial advisor on an infrastructure project is foundational – and in many respectsa critical factor in its success. So to play that role across numerous such projects is a sure-fireway to not only to deepen relationships with project sponsors, […]
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Infrastructure Law Firm of the Year – Southern Cone
Year: 2022
Winner: Latham & Watkings
Renewable energy, carbon credits, transportation, telecommunications. These are some thesectors that have kept the infrastructure market vibrant in the Southern Cone over the pastyear – and global law firm Latham & Watkins has been deeply involved in all of them.The firm, […]
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Infrastructure Law Firm of the Year – Mexico
Year: 2022
Winner: Ritch Mueller
It’s a challenging time for infrastructure financing in Mexico. With the sector heavily reliant onpublic policy and with a bigwith big quotient of politics moving the biggest investments, thelack of impetus from the federal government means new projects are moving slowly.Amid the government’s focus on large, […]
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Infrastructure Law Firm of the Year – Brazil
Year: 2022
Winner: Pinheiro Neto
Inflation, rising interest rates, currency and broader market volatility have done little to upendBrazil’s major infrastructure financings over the past year. And despite the challenging marketenvironment, São Paulo-based Pinheiro Neto Advogados was involved in some of the highestprofile infrastructure transaction to close in Brazil over that period.The firm, […]
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Infrastructure Law Firm of the Year – Andes
Year: 2022
Winner: PPU
The Andean region was awash with important infrastructure investments over the last year,such as Rumichaca-Pasto and Rio Magdalena highway projects and the new Antioquia port.What those three projects have in common is that they are all being built in Colombia. AndPhilippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & […]
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Infrastructure Law Firm Of the Year – Latin América & Central América
Year: 2022
Winner: Milbank
Latin American economies may be facing tough times amid slower growth and rising prices,but global law firm Milbank remains undaunted. In fact, the pace has hardly let up for itsproject, energy and infrastructure finance practice, in particular, which was involved in many ofthe past year’s most impressive transactions.Daniel Bartfeld, […]
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Bond of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Alfa Desarrollo´s Colbún Transmission Acquisition
When Spain’s Celeo Redes and Dutch pension fund APG decided to buy a set of powertransmission assets in Chile, they plumped for an unlikely tool to fund the acquisitions: aproject bond.It was an unorthodox bet that proved the right one: the $1.098 billion 144A Reg S notes foundstrong demand among international investors, […]
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Loan of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Gatún Power Financing
At a time when rising energy costs are causing pain for governments and consumers around theworld, Panama has found a way to save 20% on its electricity expenditure with a new billiondollar gas-fired power plant, Generadora Gatún.Construction work on the project began in March after its sponsors, […]
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Local Currency Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: GNA I Refinancing
A type of local-currency bond that offers tax advantages to infrastructure investors – astructure which has proved popular in Brazil – has earned Brazilian gas company Gas NaturalAçu (GNA), sponsor of the project which deployed the innovative instrument, Local CurrencyDeal of the Year.GNA, a joint venture between Prumo Logística, […]
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Water / Sanitation Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Aegea Sustainability – Linked Bond (SLB)
Brazilian sanitation firm Aegea Saneamento (Aegea) issued a ground-breaking sustainable bondthis year in a sector that is expected to attract plenty of interest from ESG investors movingforward.In April, the company issued a $500 million, 7-year Sustainability-linked bond (SLB) where itpledges to meet energy consumption, […]
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Social Infrastructure Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Hospital de Bosa PPP
Colombia’s capital Bogota plays host to the country’s first public-private partnership outsidetraditional sectors such as transportation and energy.The Bosa hospital project, which wins the award for Social Infrastructure Financing of theYear, stands out for its novel approach to building social infrastructure in the country. […]
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Rewenable Energy Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: GIP Patagonia / Chile Renovables
Private equity companies have shown a relentless appetite for renewable energy projectsaround the world – and Chile has carved itself out as a prominent destination for such capital.One example of this trend is the acquisition by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) of a 49%stake in AES Andes’ renewables portfolio in Chile, […]
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Road Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Autopista Rio Magdalena 2
Rio Magdalena 2 is one of the biggest road financing deals that came to market in the past year– and it’s also one of the most complex.The 153-kilometer highway is being built by Aleatica, a Madrid-headquartered toll-roadspecialist owned by IFM Global Infrastructure Fund, […]
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Port Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Puerto Antioquia
The financing of the Uraba port is the culmination of six years of structuring, and also therealization of a dream to build a port in Antioquia, Colombia’s main producing region forcoffee and bananas.Back in 2014, Andres Bustos, Puerto Antioquia’s CEO, visited the fishing port of Uraba andbegan evaluating the possibilities for building a greenfield port. […]
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Oil & Gas Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Mubadala´s Petrobras Adquisition
After ten years operating under a relatively low profile in Brazil, asset manager MubadalaCapital hit the headlines in late 2021, wrapping up one of the most emblematic transactions ofrecent years in the country’s oil and gas sector.Mubadala purchased the Landulpho Alves refinery in October of that year from Petrobras,Brazil’s state-owned oil producer, […]
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Mining Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Araguaia Nickel Project
Demand for nickel, a key ingredient in lithium-ion batteries, is on the rise in tandem withglobal appetite for electric vehicles. The result has been a surge in investment by miners inprojects to extract more of the metal.A deal to fund a new low-cost, […]
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Digital Infrastructure / Telecoms Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: KKR´S Telefónica Adquisition
Latin American countries are working hard to catch up with the digital revolution sweeping theglobe, and efforts underway by governments, companies and consumers across the region arecreating fresh opportunities for investors in the region.One such example is a joint venture between US private equity firm KKR and Spanishtelecommunications giant Telefónica in Chile to expand access to fiber optic networks in thecountry, […]
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Airport Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Tocumen Airport
The aviation industry was battered by the travel restrictions imposed during the coronaviruspandemic, with airlines losing tens of billions of dollars as their planes were grounded. It sentshockwaves across the rest of industry. From that situation emerged one of the biggestrefinancing deals in Latin America last year.As the industry crisis unfolded in 2020, […]
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Infrastructure Financing of the Year- Southern Cone. Power Financing of the Year
Year: 2022
Winner: Chacao Plus
It took Generadora Metropolitana a while, but in August 2021 the company was finally able tosuccessfully close a complex funding package intended not only to improve its debt profile butalso to build Chile’s largest photovoltaic energy plant.The $982 million credit facility and private placement of bonds was the largest non-recoursefinancing last year in Chile. […]
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Infrastructure Financing of the Year- Mexico
Year: 2022
Winner: Mante Tula Highway
Raising almost $500 million to finance a 27-year concession for a greenfield highway inMexico is no small feat at the best of times. But particularly so during a pandemic and whenthe federal government’s infrastructure program is focused on a handful of emblematic,treasury-funded projects.That’s what Grupo Hycsa pulled off with the Mante-Ocampo-Tula highway project, […]
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Infrastructure Financing of the Year-Caribbean
Year: 2022
Winner: Ege Haina SLB
When it was looking to refinance existing liabilities in advance of a major expansion of itsrenewable energy capacity, the Dominican Republic’s largest private power supplier opted for asustainability-linked bond.The company made its international sustainable bond debut in November last year, […]
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Infrastructure Financing of the Year- Brazil
Year: 2022
Winner: Smart Luz Financing
The funding by international investors of a public-private partnership for public lighting inBrazil marked itself out as one of the most innovative deals in Latin America’s infrastructuremarket in the past year.Smart Luz, which wins Infrastructure Financing of the Year – Brazil, […]
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Infrastracture Financing of the Year – Andes
Year: 2022
Winner: Rumichaca- Pasto 4G Toll Road
When Sacyr’s concessions unit decided on financing for the Rumichaca-Pasto corridor inColombia five years ago, company officials were sure they would be breaking new ground—figuratively and literally.Construction of the 83 kilometer toll road, which connects the city of Pasto with theColombia’s southern border, […]
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Infrastructure Financing of the Year – Latin America & Central América
Year: 2022
Winner: Panama Metro Line 3
Panama is one of Latin America’s least populous countries and, geographically, one of its smallest. Yet it is punching well above its weight with some of the biggest and most impressive infrastructure financings of the past year supporting major projects in the nation.In terms of project financings, […]
2022 Project & Infrastructure Awards
