In just three months of extremely choppy external markets, Project Jaguar scored a coup.
Category: Corporate & Sovereign Strategy
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BEST INVESTMENT BANK
Credit Suisse is back on top again, aiming to leverage relationships throughout emerging markets to further stoke the coals of its LatAm investment banking engine. The Swiss house coasts on rising revenue from M&A, equity and fixed income, but has not slipped into complacency.
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BEST STRUCTURED FINANCING/INNOVATION
The State of Mexico (Edomex) in August issued a much anticipated 4.1 billion peso 20-year local bond, the first securitization of future flows of income from residential property fees from a Mexican state.
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BEST BOND HOUSE
The rapidly rising tide of LatAm fixed income lifted all underwriters in 2010, creating at least four serious contenders for Best Bond House.
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BEST LAW FIRM — LATIN AMERICA/MEXICO
New York-based Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is no stranger to megadeals.
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BEST EQUITY HOUSE
Late 2009 and 2010 will be remembered as a period when equity issuance returned to LatAm with mixed results.
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BEST LAW FIRM — BRAZIL
The merger of Brazil’s two largest retailers – Casas Bahia and Globex, a unit of Pão de Açúcar – was no easy task.
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BEST SOVEREIGN ISSUER
A $1.5 billion dual-currency bond issue in July 2010 of dollar denominated and global-local notes marked the re-emergence of Chile, a historically infrequent issuer, and set a benchmark for its corporates.
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BEST LAW FIRM — CHILE
Chile’s Claro y Cía, established in 1880, is no stranger to complex M&A. In 2010 it acted as legal counsel for LAN Airlines in its merger with Brazil’s TAM that promises to be the largest airline in the region.
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BEST QUASI-SOVEREIGN BOND
Brazil’s BNDES has become a regular in the DCM after returning in 2008 from a 10-year hiatus.