In the 25th year since IFLR Awards began, IFLR is delighted to reveal the finalists for the IFLR Americas Awards 2024.
All the winning deals, firms, lawyers and in-house teams will be presented at the awards ceremony, to be held at the JW Marriott Essex House, New York, on May 15.
To find out more and to book your place at the awards, please contact Emily Kyriacou.
The winners of the non-shortlisted categories, including Rising Star Lawyers and In-House Market Maker Awards, will also be announced on the night, as will the 2024 recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award and Outstanding Contribution to Regulatory Reform Award.
IFLR's awards are unique in the market for focusing on legal innovation through dealmaking and celebrating work that improves the cross-border investment environment. The full methodology can be found in our Awards Summary.
The law firms listed on each of the shortlisted deals below are based on preliminary research. If your firm advised on one of the deals, but is not listed, please contact James Wilson.
Congratulations to all of those shortlisted!
DEALS OF THE YEAR
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Atvos-Mubadala Capital debenturesMachado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Pinheiro Neto AdvogadosBanco de Bogotá sustainable bondsA&O Shearman
Davis Polk & Wardwell
DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán
Emmet Marvin & Martin
Gómez-PinzónCGC – Dow convertible notesA&O Shearman
Bomchil
Escalona & De Fuentes
Pérez Alati Grondona Benites & ArntsenFEMSA – Heineken exchangeable bondsCleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Linklaters
NautaDutilh
Ritch Mueller y Nicolau
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & FlomNatura tender offers and consent solicitationsDavis Polk & Wardwell
Trench Rossi e Watanabe Advogados
White & CaseRepublic of Chile HKSE-listed catastrophe-linked notesSidley & Austin
Sullivan & CromwellRepublic of Costa Rica sovereign issuanceBLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonRepublic of Peru exchange and tender offerA&O Shearman
Hernández & Cía
Paul Hastings
Rubio Leguia Normand -
Almacenes Éxito ADRs and BDRsBrigard Urrutia
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
White & CaseAmbipar Response de-SPAC with HPX CorpA&O Shearman
Greenberg Traurig
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & CromwellCOPEL privatizationCleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Lefosse Advogados
Stocche Forbes AdvogadosDiagnósticos da América follow-onDavis Polk & Wardwell
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr and Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Simpson Thacher & BartlettOddity Tech IPODavis Polk & Wardwell
Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co
Herzog Fox & Neeman
Latham & WatkinsSendas Distribuidora secondary offeringLefosse Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & CaseSharkNinja IPOClifford Chance
Maples Group
Paul Hastings
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & FlomVesta IPOCreel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Ritch Mueller y Nicolau
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett -
Azul senior secured issuanceA&O Shearman
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Holland & Knight
K&L Gates
Pinheiro Guimarães
Pinheiro Neto AdvogadosBausch + Lomb senior secured notesDavis Polk & Wardwell
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Stikeman ElliottCEMEX green subordinated notesCleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Galicia Abogados
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & FlomLiberty Costa RicaAllen & Overy
Appleby
BLP
Baker McKenzie
Consortium Legal
Maples Group
Ropes & Gray -
Aligned Data Centers / ODATA financingMijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuente
Paul Hastings
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Proskauer Rose
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Stocche Forbes Advogados
Vinson & ElkinsApollo / Univar Solutions LBO financingCahill Gordon & Reindel
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & KatzEdgeCore Digital Infrastructure green financingBallard Spahr
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Milbank
Withey Morris BaughEmpresas Publicas de Medellin sustainability-linked loanCuatrecasas
Mayer Brown
Mosquera Abogados
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & FlomFinastra Group refinancingArendt & Medernach
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Goodmans
Kirkland & Ellis
K&L Gates
Lawson Lundell
Maples Group
McCarthy Tétrault
NautaDutilh
WalkersPemex and PMI refinancingA&L Goodbody
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Ritch Mueller y Nicolau
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & FlomSabesp – IDB Invest and ProparcoCescon Barrieu
Clifford Chance
Mattos Filho
White & CaseSonnedix / Arcadia Generación financingGuerrero Olivos
Morales & Besa
Milbank
White & Case -
Agrokasa / Grupo HAMECanovas Law
Consortium Legal
Estudio Muñiz - Muñiz Olaya Meléndez Castro Ono & Herrera Abogados
Paul Hastings
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & UríaAligned Data Centres / Odata GroupBrigard Urrutia
Carey
Claro y Cía
CMS Carey & Allende
Cuatrecasas
Demarest
Gómez Pinzón Abogados
Guyer & Regules
Mijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuente
Paul Hastings
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Proskauer Rose
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Stocche Forbes Advogados
Vinson & ElkinsAllkem – Livent mergerAllende & Brea
Allens
Beccar Varela
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fasken
King & Wood Mallesons
Sidley AustinBunge – Viterra mergerCurtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle Abogados
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Homburger
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown
Mitrani Caballero & Ruiz Moreno
Tauil & Chequer Advogados associated with Mayer BrownLavoro – TPB Acquisition Corporation I combinationCooley
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
TozziniFreire AdvogadosRoche / TelavantDavis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus DeringerSD Biosensor and SJL Partners / Meridian BioscienceJones Day
Paul HastingsVinci / EntreviasFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos FIlho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr E Quiroga Advogados -
Advent International and British Columbia Investment Management Corp / Maxar TechnologiesCovington & Burling
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Milbank
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Weil Gotshal & MangesCenterbridge Partners, ADIA, BCI and Wells Fargo strategic partnershipAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Dechert
Proskauer Rose
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & CromwellGeneral Atlantic and Dragoneer Investment Group / ArcoBMA Advogados
Carey Olsen
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Lobo de Rizzo Advogados
Maples Group
Mattos Filho
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Ropes & Gray
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
WalkersGIC and Oak Street / STORE Capital CorporationDLA Piper
Kirkland & Ellis
Kutak Rock
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & FlomFEMSA, Kelso & Company and Warburg Pincus / BradyPLUSCleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Debevoise & Plimpton
Kirkland & EllisKKR / PangeaCoClaro & Cía
Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie International
Latham & Watkins
Rebaza Alcázar & De Las Casas
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Adogados
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett -
Águas do Rio blocks 1 and 4Clifford Chance
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr E Quiroga Advogados
Stocche Forbes Advogados
White & CaseCosco Shipping Ports Chancay PerúA&O Shearman
Appleby
Garrigues Peru
Holman Fenwick Willan
Mayer Brown
Payet Rey Cauvi Perez Abogados
Rebaza Alcázar & De Las CasasE-Buses ChileA&O Shearman
Barros & Errázuriz
Carey
Winston & StrawnFeijão wind projectA&O Shearman
Dias Carneiro Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Veirano Advogados
White & CaseMendubim Solar Power ProjectA&O Shearman
Dias Carneiro
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Veirano Advogados
White & CasePuerto Rico Toll Roads monetizationAdsuar Muñiz Goyco Seda & Perez-Ochoa
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
McConnell Valdés
O’Melveny
Pietrantoni Mendez & Alvarez
Winston & StrawnSal de VidaA&O Shearman
Allende & Brea
Herbert Smith Freehills
Mitrani Caballero & Ruiz Moreno
Stikeman ElliotTopolobampo Ammonia plantFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Galicia Abogados
Gonzalez Calvillo
Holland & Knight
Milbank -
AmericanasBMA Advogados
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Hogan Lovells
Mattos FIlho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr E Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Guimarães
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Stocche Forbes AdvogadosAzul Linhas AereasA&O Shearman
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Holland & Knight
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Milbank
Padis Mattar Advogados
Pinheiro Guimarães
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Vedder Price
White & CaseCinépolisCreel Garcia-Cuellar Aiza y Enriquez
Galicia Abogados
Garrigues
Milbank
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Uría MenéndezLoyaltyOneAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Bennett Jones
Bordon Ladner Gervais
Cassels Brock & Blackwell
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Goodmans
Haynes and Boone
Sullivan & Cromwell
TorysRevlonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Brown Rudnick
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kelley Drye & Warren
Kobre & Kim
Latham & Watkins
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Paul Hastings
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Quinn Emanuel
Wachtell LiptonSamarcoBMA Advogados
Cescon Barrieu
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Ferro Castro Daltro e Gomide Advogados
Galdino & Coelho Pimenta Takemi Ayoub Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Norton Rose Fulbright
Padis Mattar Advogados
Pinheiro Guimaraes
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Procópio de Carvalho Advogados
Resende Ribeiro & Reis LawFirm
Sergio Bermudes Advogados
Sullivan & Cromwell
Tolentino Advogados
Vilas Boas Lopes Frattari AdvogadosSilicon Valley Bridge BankAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Cole Schotz
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Seward & Kissel
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
White & CaseVoyager DigitalBlake Cassels & Graydon
Fasken
Harneys
Kirkland & Ellis
McDermott Will & Emory
Paul Hastings
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan -
Apollo / Credit Suisse Securitized Products Group financingMorgan Lewis & Bockius
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Sidley AustinBayport Colombia – Nomura LibranzasDLA Piper Martínez Beltrán
Mayer BrownBlackRock DLF IX-LCadwalader Wickersham & Taft
MilbankChile Electricity Lux MPCA&O Shearman
Claro & Cía
Clifford Chance
Guerrero Olivos
Hinckley Allen
Kunstmann Spiess
Morales & Besa
White & CaseEllington Spanish mortgage loan securitizationAllen & Gledhill
Mayer Brown
Kirkland & EllisJCP Direct Lending CLO 2023-1Appleby
Latham & Watkins
MilbankNew Mountain Capital rated notes feederCadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Chapman & Cutler
Milbank
Schulte Roth + Zabel
Simpson Thatcher & BartlettOpea Securitizadora Agribusiness Receivables CertificatesClifford Chance
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
TEAMS OF THE YEAR
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Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Paul Hastings
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
White & Case -
Covington & Burling
Davis Polk & Wardwell
King & Spalding
Milbank
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case -
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Latham & Watkins
Paul Hastings
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case -
Cleary Gottlieb Hamilton & Steen
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell -
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom -
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
Milbank
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges -
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Paul Hastings
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges -
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Kirkland & Ellis
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Proskauer Rose
Ropes & Gray
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges -
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Herbert Smith Freehills
Milbank
Norton Rose Fulbright
Shearman & Sterling
White & Case
Winston & Strawn -
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Milbank
Paul Hastings
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
White & Case -
A&O Shearman
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Mayer Brown
Milbank
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Sidley Austin
IN-HOUSE TEAMS OF THE YEAR
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BBVA
Citi
Bank of America
Goldman Sachs
HSBC
JP Morgan
Santander
Société Générale -
Bank of America
Barclays
Citi
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley
UBS -
Apollo
Centerbridge
General Atlantic
Gerdau
Grupo Éxito
IDB Invest
IFC
SPECIALIST AWARDS
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Claro & Cia
CMS Rodríguez-Azuero
Nicholson y Cano
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
TozziniFreire Advogados
White & Case SC -
BLP
Bruchou & Funes de Rioja
Carey
Eversheds Sutherland
Nader Hayaux & Goebel
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Shearman & Sterling -
Athena generative AI assistant – Troutman Pepper, Microsoft, Framework Consulting
ECIJA Tech Vendor Risk Automation – ECIJA
Gun Jumping Avoidance Digital Tool – Miranda & Amado, Intercorp
Project JK – Hogan Lovells, Kira Systems
Side Letter Management Tool – Torys
ThinkFuture (TMF) – TozziniFreire -
Baker Mckenzie Toronto
Ballard Spahr
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
White & Case SC -
Alejandro Isaac Beas – Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Anna Tavares de Mello – Trench Rossi Watanabe
Carlos González – Morgan & Morgan
Ines Baca – Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker & McKenzie International
Katherine Tapley – Norton Rose Fulbright
Renê Medrado – Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Vanessa Franyutti – Nader Hayaux & Goebel -
Cynthia Urda Kassis – Shearman & Sterling
Daniel Bartfeld – Milbank
Dolly Mirchandani – White & Case
Jorge Juantorena – Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Matt Abbott – Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Robert Leung – Paul Hastings
Talbert Navia – Winston & Strawn
William Aaronson – Davis Polk & Wardwell
LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Milbank
Paul Hastings
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case
NATIONAL LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
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Allende & Brea
Beccar Varela
Bomchil
Bruchou & Funes de Rioja
Marval O'Farrell Mairal
Mitrani Caballero & Ruiz Moreno -
Goodmans
Fasken
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Stikeman Elliott
Torys -
Arias
BLP
Consortium Legal -
Brigard Urrutia
DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán
Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uria
Posse Herrera Ruiz -
Barros & Errázuriz
Carey
Claro y Cia
Guerrero Olivos
Morales & Besa -
Arias
BLP
Consortium Legal
ECIJA -
Alemán Cordero Galindo & Lee
Arias
Arias Fabrega & Fabrega
Morgan & Morgan -
BKM | Berkemeyer
Estudio Jurídico Gross Brown
Ferrere
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Cescon Barrieu
Dias Carneiro Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Stocche Forbes Advogado -
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr and Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Guimarães
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Stocche Forbes Advogados
Trench Rossi e Watanabe -
BMA Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Stocche Forbes Advogados
TozziniFreire Advogados -
Headrick Rizik Alvarez & Fernández
OMG
Pellerano Nadal Law & Consulting
Squire Patton Boggs -
Bustamante Fabara
Pérez Bustamante & Ponce -
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Galicia Abogados
Mijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuente
Nader Hayaux & Goebel
Ritch Mueller y Nicolau
White & Case SC -
Estudio Echecopar Member of Baker McKenzie International
Hernández & Cía
Garrigues Peru
Miranda & Amado
Payet Rey Cauvi Perez Abogados
Rebaza Alcazar & De Las Casas
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Adogados -
Ferrere
Guyer & Regules
Posadas