Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards 2017

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NOW TAKING NOMINATIONS
We’re now taking nominations for LatinFinance’s 2017 Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards. These recognize the most impressive transactions and institutions in a field critical to the region’s economic progress.
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Nominations

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

To nominate a deal, you must complete the relevant rows in the official nomination form and send it to awards@latinfinance.com, as an excel document, before Wednesday June 7, 2017. You are welcome to submit additional supporting documents. We ask that you keep these to two pages per category.

If you’d like to talk us through the merits of your nominated deals and institutions, the judging panel will be available for award pitch meetings and conference calls between June 1 and June 16. Please indicate your preferred times and dates when you send your nomination

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Reviewed the selection process and the categories and criteria?

Download the nomination form and send the completed document in excel format, along with any supporting material, by email before end of day on Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

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Criteria

The following lists highlight the main criteria to be used in judging LatinFinance’s 2017 Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards.

For all categories, we consider transactions that have closed between June 1, 2016 and May 31, 2017.

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 2017 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. Nominations are due by June 7, 2017, and must use the official nomination form.

Market consultation

LatinFinance will discuss the relative merits of shortlisted transactions and 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 end-July 2017 with the news embargoed until publication of the September edition of LatinFinance. Awards will be presented at LatinFinance’s Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards Dinner in September 2017.