The nominations for the 2019 IFLR Americas Awards have been announced. For all the deal and team of the year shortlists, please see below.
The IFLR Americas Awards celebrate legally innovative deals and teams in the region and will be held Thursday May 16 at Essex House, New York.
The national law firms and rising stars of the year will be announced on the night.
The law firms listed on each deal are based on preliminary research and submissions. If your firm advised on one of these deals but we do not have you listed please contact james.wilson@legalmediagroup.com.
To reserve your table, please email Paul Ptaschne at paul.ptaschne@euromoneyny.com or call +1 212 224 3494
DEALS OF THE YEAR
Debt and equity-linked
Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe project bond
Bär & Karrer
Hinckley Allen
Loyens & Loeff
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Milbank
Stocche Forbes Advogados
White & Case
Entrevias Concessionária de Rodovias infrastructure bonds
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Milbank
Stocche Forbes Advogados
Hunt Oil Company of Peru bond
Garrigues
Milbank
Miranda & Amado
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
MetLife SOFR-linked notes
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Mexcat tender offers and consent solicitations
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Hogan Lovells
Paul Hastings
Santa Vitória do Palmar Wind Project
Clifford Chance
Hogan Lovells
Lobo & de Rizzo Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Paul Hastings
Transportadora de Gas Internacional liability management
Brigard Urrutia
Clifford Chance
Milbank
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Equity
Banco Inter IPO
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mayer Brown
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Tauil & Chequer
White & Case
Comisión Federal de Electricidad FIBRA E
Clifford Chance
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enriquez
White & Case
Cushman & Wakefield IPO
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Ropes & Gray
Enel Chile tender offer/exchange offer
Alessandri & Cia
Carey
Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Garrigues
Winston & Strawn
GrafTech International IPO
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Mexico City Airport FIBRA E
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enriquez
Jones Day
Paul Hastings
Spotify Technology direct listing
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Latham & Watkins
StoneCo Nasdaq IPO and private placement
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Lefosse Advogados
Maples Group
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
White & Case
High yield
Banco Internacional del Perú tender offer and new notes
Arias Aleman & Mora
Estudio Echecopar
Garrigues
Jones Walker
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Blackstone / Refinitiv
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Dominican Republic sovereign bonds
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Pellerano & Herrera
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Frontera Energy Corporation
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Brigard Urrutia
Clifford Chance
Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas
García Sayán Abogados
Gregory T Chu Law Corporation
Higgs & Johnson
Homburger
Lennox Paton
McMillan
Proskauer Rose
Rodrigo Leguia Normand
Walder Wyss
MSU Energy
Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Tavarone Rovelli Salim & Miani
Rio Oil Finance Trust
Campos Mello Advogados
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Clifford Chance
Hogan Lovells
Tervita
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Norton Rose Fulbright
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Vrio
Barros & Errázuriz
Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Claro & Cía
Garrigues
Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Marval O'Farrell & Mairal
Moses & Singer
Muñiz Olaya Meléndez Castro Ono & Herrera
Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano
Salaverri Burgio Wetzler Malbrán
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
Veirano Advogados
Loans
Blackstone / Refinitiv
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Brookfield Infrastructure / Gas Natural Fenosa
Baker McKenzie
Milbank
Phillippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Torys
Carlyle Group and GIC / AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals financing
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Latham & Watkins
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Milbank
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Stikeman Elliot
Inkafarma / Quicorp
Ferrere
Garrigues
Paul Hastings
Payet Rey Cauvi Pérez Abogados
Pérez Bustamante & Ponce Abogados
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
KBR
Clyde & Co
DLA Piper
Gilbert + Tobin
Hogan Lovells
McGuire Woods
Mayer Brown
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Sky Brazil syndicated loan
Barros & Errázuriz
Brigard Urrutia
Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Claro & Cia
Garrigues
Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Muñiz Olaya Meléndez Castro Ono & Herrera Abogados
Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados
Salaverri Burgio Wetzler Malbrán
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
Veirano Advogados
Suzano Papel e Celulose financing
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
M&A
Bayer / Monsanto
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Carey
Debevoise & Plimpton
Jara del Favero Abogados
L&L Partners
Paul Hastings
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Shearman & Sterling
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Wilmer Hale
Enel Group / Eletropaulo
Barbosa Müssnich Aragão
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Lefosse Advogados
Rosman Penalva Souza Leão Franco Vale Advogados
Yazbek Advogados
LyondellBasell Industries / A Schulman
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Millicom / Cable Onda
Arias Fábrega & Fábrega
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Galindo Arias & López
Praxair / Linde merger
Arthur Cox
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Gleiss Lutz
Hengeler Mueller
Linklaters
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Sullivan & Cromwell
William Fry
Scotiabank / BBVA Chile
Carey
Claro & Cía
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Torys
Uría Menéndez
Sirius International Insurance Group / Easterly Acquisition Corporation
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Sidley Austin
Private equity
Advent International / Walmart Brazil
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Ropes & Gray
Saiani & Saglietti
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Blackstone-GIC / Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Dechert
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Gilbert + Tobin
Norton Rose Fulbright
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Torys
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Brookfield Business Partners / Westinghouse Electric Company
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Proskauer Rose
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Brookfield Infrastructure / Gas Natural Fenosa
Baker McKenzie
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Brookfield Property Partners / GGP
Goodwin Procter
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
Torys
Weil Gotshal & Manges
CPPIB and Goldman Sachs Asset Management / Enfoca
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
Lazo De Romaña & CMB Abogados
Miguel Mur Abogados
Muñiz Olaya Meléndez Castro Ono & Herrera Abogados
Payet Rey Cauvi Pérez Abogados
Proskauer Rose
VSAP21 / Oncoclínicas do Brasil Serviços Médicos
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados
Stocche Forbes Advogados
CDPQ and FDN co-investment
Gomez-Pinzon Abogados
Holland & Knight
Winston & Strawn
Project finance
Caitan – Spence Copper Mine desalination plant
Allen & Overy
Barros & Errázuriz
De Lorenzi Micciché Scalera Spada
Garrigues
Larraín & Asociados
Mayer Brown
Massoni & Compañía
Milbank
Momo-o Matsuo & Namba
Cerro Dominador solar projects
Barros & Errázuriz
Broseta
Clifford Chance
Larrain y Asociados
Milbank
Morales & Besa
Shearman & Sterling
EIG Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline
Advokatfirman Törngren Magnell
Allen & Overy
Appleby
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Conyers Dill Pearman
DLA Piper
Indacochea & Asociados
Loyens & Loeff
Milbank
Paul Hastings
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Stocche Forbes Advogados
Los Angeles International Airport Landside Access Modernization Program
Ashurst
Hogan Lovells
Nixon Peabody
Nossaman
White & Case
Porto de Sergipe I Thermoelectric Complex
Demarest Advogados
Hinckley Allen
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mayer Brown
Milbank
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Stocche Forbes Advogados
Tauil & Chequer
Shearman & Sterling
White & Case
Ruta del Cacao
Brigard Urrutia
DLA Piper
Garrigues
Holland & Knight
MALegal
Pérez-Llorca
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
São Paulo Midwest Roads / Entrevias
Allen & Overy
Lobo de Rizzo
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Restructuring
Algoma
Arendt & Medernach
Blakes Cassels & Graydon
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Goodmans
Gowlings
McMillan
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Stikeman Elliot
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Andrade Gutierrez
Jones Walker
Linklaters
Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Stocche Forbes Advogados
Telles de Abreu
Concordia International Corporation
Ashurst
Bennett Jones
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Goodmans
Kelley Drye & Warren
McMillan
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case
Fieldwood Energy
Andrews Kurth Kenyon
Bracewell
Davis Polk & Wardwell
O’Melveny & Myers
Vinson & Elkins
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
GDB Debt Recovery Authority
Davis Polk & Wardwell
King & Spalding
O’Melveny & Myers
Pietrantoni Méndez & Alvarez
Proskauer Rose
Squire Patton Boggs
GenOn Energy
Baker Botts
Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Hogan Lovells
Kirkland & Ellis
Milbank
Paul Weiss
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Oi Group
Andrade & Fichtner
Barbosa Müssnich Aragão
Basilio Advogados
CMS
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Dechert
Dias Carneiro
E Munhoz Advogados
Felsberg
Galdino Coelho Mendes Advogados
Jones Day
Lefosse Advogados
Lollato Lopes Rangel Riberiro Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Milbank
Padis Advogados
Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Rosman Penalva Souza Leão Franco Advogados
Sergio Bermudes Advogados
Stocche Forbes Advogados
Wal & Associados Advogados
White & Case
Westinghouse Electric Company
Milbank
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Proskauer Rose
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Structured finance and securitisation
FIDC Mercado Crédito Merchant
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
GDB Debt Recovery Authority bond restructuring
Davis Polk & Wardwell
King & Spalding
O’Melveny & Myers
Pietrantoni Méndez & Alvarez
Proskauer Rose
Squire Patton Boggs
IBT Perú RPO Financing
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Estudio Echecopar
Garrigues
IDB Invest – Movistar Ecuador
Ferrere Ecuador
Longitudinal de la Sierra Tramo II
Alston & Bird
Estudio Rosselló
Garrigues
Hernández & Cía Abogados
Hogan Lovells
Norton Rose Fulbright
Shearman & Sterling
Marathon Asset Management CRE CLO
Clifford Chance
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
World Bank Latin America catastrophe bond
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enriquez
Sidley Austin
Sullivan & Cromwell
LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Debt and equity-linked
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Hogan Lovells
Milbank
Paul Hastings
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case
Equity
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Latham & Watkins
Paul Hastings
White & Case
Winston & Strawn
Financial services regulatory
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
High yield
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Loans
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
M&A
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Shearman & Sterling
Sidley Austin
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Private equity
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Proskauer Rose
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Project finance
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Mayer Brown
Milbank
Paul Hastings
Shearman & Sterling
Winston & Strawn
White & Case
Restructuring
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Milbank
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Magher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Structured finance and securitisation
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Sidley Austin
Sullivan & Cromwell
In-house debt team
Banco Itaú
BNP Paribas
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Goldman Sachs & Co
HSBC Securities
JP Morgan
Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith
In-house equity team
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley
Santander
Americas firm of the year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Milbank
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
White & Case