LatinFinance’s 2016 Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards recognize the most impressive transactions and institutions in a field critical to the region’s economic progress. 

2016 Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards
LatinFinance’s 2016 Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards recognize the most impressive transactions and institutions in a field critical to the region’s economic progress. Browse the categories below to see this year’s winners.

Nominations

Banks, law firms, and companies working in infrastructure finance may nominate one transaction or institution in each category for consideration.

Nominations must be submitted via the official nomination form and returned to awards@latinfinance.com as an excel document. Institutions are welcome to submit additional documentation to support their pitch, limited to two pages per category.

Pitches must be emailed to awards@latinfinance.com. Please note, nominations must be submitted by Friday June 3, 2016, and must use the official nomination form. The judging panel will be available for award pitch meetings and conference calls between June 6 and June 24.

Further details regarding the pitching process can be requested by email from awards@latinfinance.com.

Categories

Provisional categories for LatinFinance’s 2016 Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards are:

  1. Best Local Currency Financing
  2. Best Airport Financing
  3. Best Port Financing
  4. Best Road Financing
  5. Best Transport Financing
  6. Best Renewable Energy Financing
  7. Best Power Financing
  8. Best Mining Financing
  9. Best Oil & Gas Financing
  10. Best Loan
  11. Best Bond
  12. Best Infrastructure Financing: Caribbean
  13. Best Infrastructure Financing: Central America
  14. Best Infrastructure Financing: Andes
  15. Best Infrastructure Financing: Brazil
  16. Best Infrastructure Financing: Mexico
  17. Best Infrastructure Law Firm: Andes
  18. Best Infrastructure Law Firm: Mexico
  19. Best Infrastructure Law Firm: Brazil
  20. Best Infrastructure Law Firm: Latin America
  21. Best Infrastructure Bank: Andes
  22. Best Infrastructure Bank: Brazil
  23. Best Infrastructure Bank: Mexico
  24. Best Infrastructure Bank
  25. Best Project Sponsor

Criteria

The following lists highlight the main criteria to be used in judging LatinFinance’s 2016 Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards.

For all categories, we consider transactions that have closed between June 1, 2015 and May 31, 2016

 

 

Deals

 

Categories 1 to 16 will be judged on:

  • Market significance, strategic importance, and groundbreaking qualities
  • Structural aspects of the transaction, including complexity, innovation and size
  • Execution, including price and demand achieved compared to other references in the market and with regard to conditions at the time
  • Secondary market performance, and reception by peers and investors
  • Geographical reach, where relevant

 

 

Institutions

 

Categories 17 to 25 will be judged on:

 

  • Overall strategy, volume and diversity of transactions
  • Innovation and foresight
  • Execution quality and success of transactions worked on
  • Role in particularly complex, innovative, or large deals over the year
  • Quantity of transactions worked on over the year, and compared to previous years

 

Selection process

LatinFinance’s 2016 Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards are decided by LatinFinance’s editors, following an extensive research process. The key elements of each step of the process are outlined below.

 

Nominations

 

Banks, law firms, and companies working in infrastructure finance may nominate one transaction in each category for consideration. Please click on the “Nominate” tab above for more information about nominating a transaction or institution. Please note, nominations must be submitted by June 3, 2016, and must use the official nomination form.

 

Market consultation

 

LatinFinance will discuss the relative merits of shortlisted transactions an institutions with a wide range of market participants. Institutions that submit nominations may at the same time request a call or meeting with LatinFinance’s judging panel to discuss their submission.

 

Examination of financial data

 

LatinFinance will research transaction data and other publicly available information for each of the nominated transactions and institutions. As is relevant in each category, such data will include, but will not be limited to: presentations on the projects being financed, stock exchange filings, transaction pricing details, secondary market trading data.

 

Editorial evaluation

 

LatinFinance’s editorial team retains discretion over the final allocation of awards in each category. The final decision will be based on nominations, market consultation, research of financial data, and feedback on transactions over the course of the past 12 months.

 

Announcements

 

Winners will be informed by Thursday July 14, 2016 with the news embargoed until publication of the September edition of LatinFinance. Awards will be presented at LatinFinance’s Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards Dinner on September 2016.

Contact

Enquiries can be sent to awards@latinfinance.com with “Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards” in the subject line.

 

 

2015 Winners
Want to see who won last year? Take a look here.