Award
LATINLAWYER announces Deal of the Year winners
LATINLAWYER, the definitive resource for business lawyers in Latin America, has announced the winners of its annual ‘Deal of the Year Awards’ for 2007.
There are four winning deals, one for each category – corporate finance, project finance, M&A and disputes. There are also two runners-up for each category.
LATINLAWYER congratulates the counsel, both in-house and in law firms, working on those deals. A list of the law firms and in-house teams for the winning deals is below.
An awards dinner for the counsel working on all three deals in each category will be held in Mexico City on Thursday 28 February, at the Sheraton Hotel, Centro Histórico. For more information or to book email [email protected].
Counsel on the winning deals:
Corporate finance category: Bovespa’s landmark IPO
Counsel to Bovespa Holding
In-house counsel Nora Rachman, Luiz Felipe Calabró, Gabriela Fernandes, Alessandra Lanza and Patricia Gomes Ferreira
In Brazil, Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão and Braga & Marafon Consultores e Advogados, and in the US, Shearman & Sterling LLP
Counsel the banks
In-house counsel to Credit Suisse, Jill Wallach, Ana Martha Cunha and Rodolfo Lima, and in-house counsel to Goldman Sachs, Adam Greene, Laura Simao and Alex Hatanaka
In Brazil, Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados, and in the US, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
M&A category: the McDonald’s regional franchise
Counsel to Arcos Dorados
International lead counsel - Greenberg Traurig LLP
In Argentina, Pérez Alati Grondona Benites Arntsen & Martínez de Hoz, in Brazil, TozziniFreire Advogados, in Chile, Claro y Cía, in Colombia, Muñoz Tamayo & Asociados, in Costa Rica, Arias & Muñoz, in Ecuador, Bustamante & Bustamante, in France, Salans, in Mexico, Mijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuentes SC, in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, VanEps Kunneman VanDorne, in Panama, Arias Fábrega & Fábrega, in Peru, Payet Rey Cauvi Abogados, in Puerto Rico, Fiddler González & Rodriquez, in Uruguay, Guyer & Regules, and in Venezuela, Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque
Counsel to the Capital Group
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Counsel to Gavea
Clifford Chance LLP
Counsel to DLJ South American Partners
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Counsel to The McDonald’s Corporation
In-house counsel – Jerry Krulewitch, Bob Switzer, and Maria Leggett
International lead counsel - Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
In Argentina, Brons & Salas, in Brazil, Pinheiro Neto Advogados, in Chile, Espina Zepeda Acosta Rodríguez & Tavolari, in Colombia, Brigard & Urrutia, in Costa Rica,
Facio & Cañas, in Ecuador, Pérez Bustamante y Ponce Abogados, in Mexico, Kuri Breña Sánchez Ugarte y Aznar, in the Netherlands, Antilles and Aruba, HBN Law, in Panama, Alfaro Ferrer & Ramírez, in Peru, Vega & Sologuren Abogados, in Puerto Rico, Reichard & Escalera, in Uruguay, Jiménez de Aréchaga Viana & Brause, and in Venezuela, D’Empaire Reyna Abogados
Disputes category: Copel v UEG in Brazil
Counsel to UEG
In Brazil, Xavier Bernardes Bragança Sociedade de Advogados, and in the US, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Counsel to Companhia Paranaense de Energia
In Brazil, Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Project finance category – Intersur’s road financing in Peru
Counsel to Intersur Concesiones, its SPVs and shareholders
In Brazil, Clifford Chance LLP
Counsel to Intersur Concesiones and shareholders
In Peru, Estudio Ferrero Abogados, and in the Cayman Islands, Maples and Calder
Counsel to BNP Paribas Securities
In Peru, Pizarro, Botto & Escobar Abogados, and in the US, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP
Methodology
The deals above were selected after a two-month research process. Submissions were invited from any law firm or company wishing to nominate a transaction or case in which the majority of the legal work took place in Latin America. LATINLAWYER’s editorial team compiled shortlists of up to six transactions in each category, which were then presented to panels of leading lawyers from around and outside the region for their thoughts on each transaction. Each category had its own panel, selected from law firms not working on any of the six shortlisted deals. To contact the editorial team, email [email protected]
LATIN LAWYER Magazine's independent team of journalists provides news and analysis of deals, cases and legal, practice management and policy developments across the region, alongside interviews with key private practice, in-house and government lawyers influencing those developments. The team also researches the LATIN LAWYER 250 - Latin America's leading business law firms, an annual review of the legal marketplace in 18 national Latin American jurisdictions, complete with analysis of the Latin American practices of international law firms.