Category: Deals of the Year Awards

The best of Latin America’s capital markets users took full advantage of favorable conditions while they lasted. Hindsight shows the value of doing so

The Swiss bank worked on several notable deals in an otherwise quiet year, but it expects mergers and acquisitions to increase in 2014

Choppy markets for bond issuers in 2013 demanded creative solutions to get deals done. That’s
unlikely to change in the year ahead

Brazilian telecom Oi freed capital and cut debt by selling a submarine cable system, but still kept access to the network

A record-low yield from a new issuer highlighted the strength of demand for emerging market paper

Timing, size and execution were all remarkable in this attention-grabbing bond sale

The Brazilian energy and infrastructure firm reopened the global-real market, and says local currency funding is set to become even more important this year

Chile impressed with the lowest coupon and yield ever achieved by a Latin American issuer for the 10 and 30-year tranches

LOCAL CURRENCY DEAL
FINANCING INNOVATION

América Móvil MXN15bn global peso bond

Pioneering a new type of local currency instrument and swaggering into European hybrid debt has set América Móvil apart as Latin America’s most sophisticated borrower

Mexico’s foresight, nimbleness and use of innovative structures marks it out as Latin America’s most sophisticated sovereign borrower