Simpson Thacher represented the initial purchasers in relation to offerings by Peruvian Government-owned Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo S.A. (COFIDE) of $200 million of 3.25% notes due 2019 and $600 million of 4.75% notes due 2025.
Chadbourne & Parke LLP advised the underwriters in relation to a $1.15 billion senior secured note offering to part finance the second line of the Lima and Callao metro project in Peru.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy advised Mizuho Bank in its role as lender and administrative agent in the $270 million senior unsecured revolving facility for E.CL, a Chilean utility company.
Shearman & Sterling advised Chilean power company AES Gener S.A. on its Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of US$425 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.000% senior notes due 2025.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom was among the firms that advised Citigroup on the sale of its retail and commercial banking operations in Costa Rica and Panama to Canadian bank Scotiabank.
Baker & McKenzie has appointed Claudia Metzger as regional operating officer for the Latin America region.
Greenberg Traurig´s Mexico City office has recruited competition lawyer Miguel Flores Bernés, a former commissioner of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission.
Ontier has announced the opening of an office in Chile following the incorporation of the Santiago firm Poduje & Cía Abogados.
Garrigues and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised Grupo Bimbo on its €190m acquisition of baked goods producer Panrico from Oaktree Capital Management.
Latin America has experienced a bigger increase in M&A activity in the last five years than any other region in the world, according to a new study by Linklaters.
