The Difficult Second Album – La YescaAfter scoring a coup with its El Cajón financing for ICA in 2004, WestLB followed with yet another innovative take on hydro financing. A […]
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AWARDS: Best Infrastructure Deal/Best Transport Deal
Jumbo Anxiety – Farac A $3.7 billion financing is already a hefty proposal, even for global infrastructure. Since the beginning of 2006, only three other infrastructure-oriented loans around the globe […]
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AWARDS: Best Energy Deal
Big Deal, Challenging Market – Peru LNGThe Camisea gas fields represent a mountain of wealth for Peru and a chance for it to become self sufficient in hydrocarbon energy. It […]
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Primary Equity Issue
Great Exchange Expectations It was not just the biggest equity deal of 2007 from LatAm, the fifth largest IPO globally and the most substantial to date from any exchange. The […]
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Private Equity Deal
Refocusing Pride GP Investment’s $1 billion acquisition of a collection of LatAm assets from Pride International has vaulted the Brazilian private equity firm into a new league. It is now […]
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Quasi-Sovereign Bond
City Financing Just before credit markets dried up in July 2007, the District of Bogotá priced an innovative and tightly priced $300 million TES-denominated 144A offering due 2028. What the […]
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Sovereign Bond
Keeping it Local Last year saw several significant and innovative transactions from sovereign issuers and many examples of creative liability management. But Peru’s $1.5 billion sol-denominated 2037 issue pushed the […]
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Sovereign issuer
UMS Goes Strategic Long considered the region’s most sophisticated issuer, Mexico pushed the envelope in 2007 with several transactions that showcase its continued leadership of the debt markets. The sovereign […]
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Structured Bond
Building Consensus Every country in Latin America faces the same problem of how to finance looming infrastructure needs. Solutions range from grand schemes still in theoretical stages to functional but […]
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Best Investment Bank
Staying Ahead Credit Suisse started last year in a very strong position and built on it, even as operating conditions turned nasty in the second half. A focus on high […]