Deal of the Year shortlists announced for M&A and private equity
Latin Lawyer is delighted to announce the shortlisted transactions for the private equity and private and public M&A categories of its 13th annual Deal of the Year Awards.
For each category, three transactions have been selected for the shortlist and are listed below. The winners will be announced on the night of our charity awards ceremony at the Hotel Palácio Tangará in São Paulo on Wednesday 10 April.
The dinner is being held in aid of three of the region’s pro bono clearinghouses. They are Pro Bono Chile Foundation, Venezuela's ProVene and the IPB in Brazil. More information and tickets are available here.
We congratulate all the lawyers who took part in these leading transactions and look forward to presenting them with awards. The shortlists for the remaining categories will be announced over a series of upcoming briefings.
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Private mergers and acquisitions
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Royal Dutch Shell’s sale of downstream business in Argentina to Raízen
Counsel to Raízen
In-house counsel – Raphaella Gomes, Rodrigo Caldas, Rafael Skinner de Lucca and Jihad El-Khouri
Mitrani, Caballero & Ruiz Moreno
BMA - Barbosa, Müssnich, Aragão
Counsel to Shell
In-house counsel – Jon Sellars, Katherine Armstrong and Ben Symes
Haynes and Boone LLP
Haynes and Boone SC
Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal
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Actis’ acquisition of InterGen’s Mexican portfolio
Counsel to Actis
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Galicia Abogados
Counsel to Intergen
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enriquez SC
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Maurel & Prom's purchase of Royal Dutch Shell's stake in Petroregional del Lago
Counsel to Maurel & Prom
D’Empaire
Herbert Smith Freehills
Special Venezuelan law advisors Nicolas Faillace and Santiago Fontiveros
Counsel to Shell
Natalija Vojvodic and Rubén Eduardo Luján (Formerly at Norton Rose Fulbright’s Caracas office until February 2019, now at Dentons).
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Public mergers and acquisitions
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Enel’s hostile takeover of Eletropaulo
Counsel to Enel
Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Rosman, Penalva, Souza Leão, Franco, Vale Advogados
Yazbek Advogados
Counsel to Eletropaulo
In-house counsel - Pedro Bueno Vieira, Lina Gallo Miessi, Andrea Leandro Valenzuela and Maria Cecilia Penteado Sandrini
BMA - Barbosa, Müssnich, Aragão
Lefosse Advogados
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Tianqi Lithium’s acquisition of a stake in Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile
Counsel to Tianqi Lithium
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Carey
Zhong Lun
Counsel to Nutrien
Jones Day
Claro & Cía
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Grupo Financiero Banorte’s acquisition of Grupo Financiero Interacciones
Counsel to Grupo Financiero Banorte
White & Case SC
Counsel to Grupo Financiero Interacciones
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
DLA Piper LLP
Aziz & Kaye Business Law
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Private equity
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Private equity-backed Bioceres Argentina gets NYSE-listing
Counsel to Bioceres Argentina
Linklaters
Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal
Counsel to Union Acquisition Corporation
Arnold & Porter
Mitrani, Caballero & Ruiz Moreno
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MAS Equity Partners exits Promotora Médica Las Américas
Counsel to Grupo Aúna
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados
Counsel to MAS Colombia LATAM and selling shareholders
Brigard Urrutia
Counsel to Promotora Médica las Américas
In-house counsel – Luis Gabriel Botero
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Enfoca’s private equity secondary transaction
Counsel to Enfoca SAFI
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados
Counsel to Goldman Sachs
Proskauer Rose LLP
Muñiz, Olaya, Meléndez, Castro, Ono & Herrera
Counsel to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Proskauer Rose LLP
Muñiz, Olaya, Meléndez, Castro, Ono & Herrera
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