Arias, Fábrega & Fábrega in our news

Plastics maker issues Peru’s first global sustainability-linked bond

Peruvian plastic packaging company San Miguel Industrias (SMI) has hired Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York and BBGS Abogados (Peru) to issue sustainability-linked bonds and launch a tender offer, with both transactions worth a total of US$585 million.

16 August 2021

Multiple firms steer Lumen’s US$2.7 billion LatAm business sale

US private equity company Stonepeak has enlisted Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York and Palo Alto as lead international counsel to buy Lumen Technologies’ Latin American business for US$2.7 billion.

05 August 2021

Electricity distributor makes landmark debt placement in Panama

Panamanian power distributor Elektra Noreste has enlisted Clifford Chance LLP in New York and Washington, DC and local firm Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee to raise US$100 million in the first private placement on the Latin American stock exchange in Panama.

30 July 2021

Salvadorean finance group buys local branch of Banco G&T

With counsel from BLP (El Salvador), Inversiones Financieras Grupo Azul (IFGA) has acquired the local division of Guatemala’s Banco G&T Continental.

12 July 2021

Panama’s Banco General makes US$400 million bond offering

Panama’s Banco General has hired Clifford Chance LLP in New York and Arias Fábrega & Fábrega in Panama City to raise US$400 million in its first-ever additional tier 1 (AT1) issuance, the value of which can be converted into equity.

25 May 2021

Deal of the Year Winner: Project Finance (Energy)

The combined project bond issuance and bank debt package was one of Latin America’s largest power project financings in 2020 and occurred over two concurrent cross-border transactions. The company’s multijurisdictional activities required the coordination of law firms in the US, Spain, Chile, Colombia and Panama. It is our energy project finance Deal of the Year.

24 May 2021

Deal of the Year 2020: the full shortlist

Latin Lawyer will announce the winners of our 15th annual Deal of the Year Awards in the daily news briefing next week. See the full shortlist here.

19 May 2021

Latin Lawyer announces Elite 2021

Latin Lawyer Elite firms have each carved out their own paths towards excellence and demonstrate unique areas of strength. Here, we reveal this year’s Elite.

12 May 2021

Deal of the Year: the shortlists for capital markets, banking and finance and project finance

Latin Lawyer is delighted to announce the deals shortlisted for the capital markets, banking and finance and project finance categories of our 15th annual Deal of the Year Awards.

27 April 2021

IDB Invest backs first sustainable bond programme in Central America

Allen & Overy LLP in New York and BLP (Costa Rica) have helped IDB Invest issue a credit guarantee facility to back Banco Promerica’s US$50 million sustainable bond programme, the first of its kind in Central America.

05 March 2021