Work Area: Capital markets & securities

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in São Paulo and New York has helped Brazilian mining titan Vale issue notes and complete a concurrent liability management transaction worth more than US$1.7 billion in total.

27 June 2023

Argentine state-owned oil company YPF has enlisted Bruchou & Funes de Rioja to raise US$125 million through a debt issuance.

26 June 2023

Lobo de Rizzo Advogados has helped Brazilian electricity group Cemig offer sustainable debentures worth 2 billion reais (US$409 million).

23 June 2023

Miami-based fund GDA Luma has hired Milbank in New York and two Cuatrecasas offices to obtain a share in Colombian consumer finance company Credivalores in exchange for existing debt, a deal worth US$58 million.

23 June 2023

A partner has left Elite firm Veirano Advogados to join CGM Advogados as head of its capital markets practice.

21 June 2023

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York and PPQ Legal in Guatemala City have helped the Republic of Guatemala raise US$1 billion in an issuance of notes.

21 June 2023

Pinheiro Neto Advogados has helped the Brazilian branch of Mercado Pago, the digital banking arm of MercadoLibre, structure an investment fund and raise 1.5 billion reais (US$295 million) in a public offering.

21 June 2023

The Republic of Peru has Paul Hastings LLP in Washington, DC and New York and local firm Hernández & Cía to raise 9.2 billion soles (US$2.5 billion) in a sustainable bond issuance, the sovereign’s first offering of local currency-denominated notes since 2019.

19 June 2023

Peruvian medical group Auna has hired US firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Colombia’s Posse Herrera Ruiz, Ritch Mueller y Nicolau, SC in Mexico City and Peruvian outfit Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados to issue US$505 million worth of notes, the proceeds of which it will use to repay an existing acquisition financing.

19 June 2023

Cuatrecasas (Colombia) has helped BTG Pactual as placement agent in a US$34 million debt issuance by local port terminal Palermo Sociedad Portuaria.

16 June 2023