Latin Lawyer is delighted to announce the deals shortlisted for the private and public M&A, ESG and private equity categories of our 18th annual Deal of the Year Awards.
Listed below are the three deals that have been shortlisted in each category.
The winners will be announced on the night of our charity awards ceremony at Hotel Unique in São Paulo on Thursday 9 May.
A dinner will also be held in aid of the region’s pro bono clearinghouses. More information and tickets are available here.
More shortlists will be announced later this week.
Congratulations to all those involved in these transactions.
Mergers & acquisitions: private companies
Aligned buys ODATA from Patria and Cyrus One
Counsel to Aligned Data Centers
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Stocche Forbes Advogados
Claro & Cía
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Mijares, Angoitia, Córtes y Fuentes SC
Posadas
Counsel to Patria Investimentos and ODATA
In-house counsel to Patria Investimentos – Luiz Portela, Miguel Raszl, Larissa Sabino and Felipe Rezende
In-house counsel to ODATA – Erika Patara
Cuatrecasas
Proskauer Rose LLP
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Brigard Urrutia
Carey
Galicia Abogados
Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga
Counsel to CyrusOne
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Demarest Advogados
Gómez-Pinzón
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, SC
Counsel to SDC Capital Partners
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Counsel to SMBC, MUFG, Deutsch Bank and Normura
Paul Hastings LLP
***
Natura sells Aesop for US$2.5 billion
Counsel to Natura
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Counsel to L’Óreal
In-house counsel – Alexandre Menais, Arnaud de Rochebrune and Sabine Vermelle
Latham & Watkins LLP
Lefosse
***
Enfragen acquires Central American energy assets from Celsia
Counsel to Fontus Spain and EnfraGen
Paul Hastings LLP
Claro & Cía
Arias (Costa Rica)
SIGMA Law
Counsel to Celsia
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee
BLP (Costa Rica)
Mergers & acquisitions: public companies
Pan American Silver gets LatAm assets with US$4.8 billion Yamana Gold buy
Counsel to Pan American Silver Corp
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Mattos Filho
Carey
Counsel to Yamana Gold
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
***
General Atlantic and Dragoneer take Brazil’s Arco private
Counsel to Arco Platform
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Maples Group
Lobo de Rizzo Advogados
Counsel to Arco’s board of directors
Carey Olsen
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
BMA Advogados
Counsel to General Atlantic
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Mattos Filho
Counsel to Dragoneer
Ropes & Gray LLP
Mattos Filho
Counsel to Evercore Group
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
***
Guatemala’s Hame acquires Peruvian agribusiness Agrokasa
Counsel to Grupo Hame
Canovas Law PLLC
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Consortium Legal (Guatemala)
Phillipi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría (Peru)
Counsel to Agrokasa, Agrokasa Holdings, Sociedad Agrícola Drokasa, Agrícola Los Andenes, Agrícola Los Andenes II, and Agrícola Los Andenes III
Paul Hastings LLP
Muñiz, Olaya, Meléndez, Castro, Ono & Herrera
ESG finance
Chile issues first sustainability-linked bonds denominated in UF
Counsel to the Republic of Chile
Linklaters
Morales & Besa
Counsel to Bofa Securities, Citigroup Global Markets, Itau BBA USA Securities, HSBC Securities (USA), Santander Investment Securities, Scotia Capital (USA) and JP Morgan Securities
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Garrigues (Chile)
***
Grupo Energía Bogotá makes landmark sustainable issuance
Counsel to Grupo Energía Bogotá
In-house counsel – Néstor Fagua, Liliana Perez Uribe, Jorge Alberto Padilla and Andrea Amaya
Winston & Strawn LLP
Cuatrecasas (Colombia)
Counsel to Red de Energía del Perú, Cálidda, and Consorcio Transmantaro
Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas
Counsel to JP Morgan Securities, Santander US Capital Markets and Scotia Capital (USA)
Clifford Chance LLP
Garrigues (Colombia)
***
Ecuador completes largest debt-for-nature swap
Counsel to the Republic of Ecuador
Dentons
Counsel to Credit Suisse
Clifford Chance LLP
Bustamante Fabara
Counsel to Oceans Finance Company
Baker McKenzie LLP
Counsel to The Bank of New York Mellon
Perkins Coie LLP
Counsel to US Development Finance Corporation
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Counsel to Inter-American Development Bank
Norton Rose Fulbright
Private equity
Brazilian PE fund Treecorp invests in Coritiba football club
Counsel to Treecorp
Machado Meyer Advogados
Bichara e Motta Advogados
Counsel to Coritiba FC
BMA Advogados
***
Macquarie and Odinsa launch airport investment platform in Colombia and Ecuador
Counsel to Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets and Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
DLA Piper LLP
DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán
Bustamante Fabara
Counsel to Odinsa
In-house counsel – Eduardo Bettin, Juan Camilo Hoyos and Valentina Santacoloma
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Uría Menéndez
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Pérez Bustamante & Ponce (PBP)
***
Telecoms group MXT expands in Mexico with Ardian investment
For Ardian’s purchase of MXT Holdings shares
Counsel to Ardian
In house counsel – Stefano Mion, Michael Obhof, Emilio Andrade and Kevin Rohde
Galicia Abogados
Counsel to MXT Holdings
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC
Greenberg Traurig (Mexico)
For MXT’s acquisition of Centennial
Counsel to MXT Holdings
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC
Greenberg Traurig (Mexico)
Counsel to Centennial
Kirkland & Ellis
