Category: 2014 January / February

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

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

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

The Brazilian corporate’s tender offer and dual-currency new issue was well timed and executed

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

The largest international acquisition by a Chilean company came with a smooth financing package

Project bonds and local currency debt have each drawn growing appetite from investors. But to combine the two deal types was unprecedented in Mexico

Banorte leapt into the top position in a growing pension sector, taking advantage of BBVA’s exit

Itaú BBA opened the way for other Latin American banks to tap international lenders for funding the largest loan transaction ever made to a LatAm institution