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 […]
Category: 2025 Deals of the Year Awards
Sovereign Liability Management Deal of the Year
Facing mounting fiscal pressures and volatile market conditions in 2025, Colombia turned to an unusually sophisticated liability management operation to reshape its sovereign debt curve without destabilizing secondary markets. The […]
Law Firm of the Year: Central America
Few regional firms can claim to have been built from scratch as a true cross-border platform. Consortium Legal did just that in 2005, uniting five leading national firms into a […]
Loan of the Year
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 […]
Investment Bank of the Year: Latin America
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 […]
Law Firm of the Year: Caribbean
Energy, infrastructure and tourism projects are reshaping the Caribbean’s investment landscape, drawing unprecedented levels of international capital into markets long viewed as too small or fragmented to sustain large-scale financings. […]
Private Debt Deal of the Year
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 […]
Investment Bank of the Year: Central America
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 […]
Law Firm of the Year: Colombia
Law firms nearing their centenary often trade on tradition and reputation. Colombia’s Brigard Urrutia does that too — but it is innovation that now defines the firm’s edge. Founded in […]
Corporate Restructuring of the Year
Mexican non-bank lender Unifin entered 2022 facing an existential crisis. After a period of aggressive growth, rising funding costs and regulatory pressure, the company — one of the country’s largest […]
