Strengths in liability management, debut transactions, and a range of currencies and structures, make this bank stand out
Category: 2015 January / February
AWARDS: LOAN HOUSE
Deals in a wide range of currencies and structures, sectors and geographies, including debut issuers and repeat mandates, made the winning bank stand out
CENTRAL AMERICA POWER: New lines
Multilateral development institutions and governments
are finding new ways to attract private funding for power
infrastructure, particularly renewables. By Lucy Conger
AWARDS: CORPORATE HIGH-GRADE BOND
Positioning itself as a global company, the issuer found long-end demand and tight pricing
AWARDS: LOCAL CURRENCY DEAL
Good communication with investors led to the first global Colombian peso bond in 18 months, at a time when flows to emerging markets plunged
COVER STORY: Esteves’ neo-classical model
André Esteves takes pride in BTG Pactual being an old-style merchant bank that offers equity as well as debt to clients. The model has worked well. But as Brazil and the global economy flounders, the bank is rebalancing its capital deployment strategy. By Dominic O’Neill
AWARDS: CORPORATE HIGH-YIELD BOND
The cement maker’s rehabilitation in global markets goes on, most impressively this year in a dual-currency bond combined with a liability management exercise
AWARDS: M&A HOUSE
The bank’s global and local networks helped it advise on an array of large domestic and cross-border transactions
EQUITY NEWS: Picking up
New listings emerged from Mexico, while Brazilian issuers are hopeful for an improvement in 2015 after a troubled end to 2014. By Eduardo García
AWARDS: CORPORATE ISSUER
The cement maker’s rehabilitation in global markets goes on, most impressively this year in a dual-currency bond combined with a liability management exercise
