IFLR is pleased to reveal the shortlist for the Americas Awards 2022, recognising the most legally innovative cross-border transactions that closed in 2021.
The IFLR editorial team reviewed deals from across the Americas, looking for work that set precedents, broke new ground, added to the legal toolkit and brought clarity to regulatory frameworks.
The Awards also celebrates the teams and firms behind the deals, as well as the standout dealmakers and regulatory lawyers from across the region. IFLR’s criteria and methodology can be found here.
The winners for all the categories shortlisted below will be announced in New York on May 19, along with the teams and national law firms of the year, this year’s rising stars and the most prominent in-house lawyers and teams. IFLR will also reveal as the winners of the Contribution to Regulatory Reform and Outstanding Achievement awards.
This shortlist is based on preliminary research. If your team advised on one of these deals but has not been listed please contact Sophie Astles
We will be announcing the winners of this year’s awards at a live ceremony at Essex House in New York on Thursday May 19 2022.
To book your place at the awards ceremony, or to find out more about commercial opportunities surrounding the awards, please contact Chris Edouard
Congratulations to all those shortlisted!
DEALS OF THE YEAR
Debt and equity-linked
B3: A Bolsa do Brasil sustainability-linked notes
Clifford Chance
Holland & Knight
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice
Milbank
Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados
Banco Davivienda AT1 bonds
Brigard Urrutia
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Shearman & Sterling
Belize blue bond
Allen & Overy
Barrow & Company
Davis Polk & Wardwell
DLA Piper
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Linklaters
Maples Group
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Richards Layton & Finger
Ropes & Gray
Shearman & Sterling
Sullivan & Cromwell
Coca-Cola FEMSA sustainability-linked notes
Galicia Abogados
Dominican Republic sovereign bond
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Pellerano Nadal
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Montes de María project bond
Alston & Bird
Brigard Urrutia
Hogan Lovells
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Norton Rose Fulbright
Paul Hastings
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Republic of Chile ESG bond
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Garrigues Chile
Linklaters
Morales & Besa
Vale participating debentures
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados
White & Case
Equity
Caixa Seguridade IPO
Hogan Lovells
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice
Milbank
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
CI&T IPO
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Coinbase direct listing
Fenwick & West
Latham & Watkins
Kyndryl spin-off listing
Brigard Urrutia
Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos
CorralRosales
Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie International
Estudio Ortiz & Asociados
Ferrere
Hogan Lovells
Lega Abogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Nubank IPO
Campbells
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
White & Case
On Running IPO
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Homburger
Lenz & Staehelin
Rivian IPO
Latham & Watkins
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Roblox direct listing
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
High yield
Arco Platform convertible senior notes
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Maples Group
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Latham & Watkins
Gol senior secured notes
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Milbank
Great Canadian Gaming senior secured notes
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Oi Móvel senior secured notes
Baker McKenzie
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case
PEMEX issuance and liability management
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Ritch Mueller y Nicolau
Shearman & Sterling
Transtelco Corporation tender offer and consent solicitation
Arias y Meurinne
Ayala SV Abogados
DLA Piper
Paul Hastings
Sainz Abogados
Seward & Kissel
YPF exchange offer and consent solicitation
Bomchil
Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Dechert
DLA Piper Argentina
Milbank
Tanoira Cassagne Abogados
Loan
Canadian Pacific Railway / Kansas City Southern acquisition financing
Bennett Jones
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Sullivan & Cromwell
CEMEX sustainability-linked syndicated loan
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Galicia Abogados
GHR Rechtsanwälte
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Grupo Bimbo sustainability-linked RCF
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Galicia Abogados
Ritch Mueller y Nicolau
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Grupo Werthein / Vrio acquisition financing
Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
BSZE Attorneys
Bustamante Fabara Abogados
Carey
Chancery Chambers
D’Empaire
Demarest Advogados
Guyer & Regules
Nader Hayaux & Goebel
Pollonais Blanc de la Bastide & Jacelon
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
I Squared Capital / Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Barranquilla and Sociedad Portuaria Rio Grande acquisition financing
Baker McKenzie
DLA Piper
Garrigues Colombia
White & Case
Winston & Strawn
Paper Excellence / Domtar acquisition financing
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Debevoise & Plimpton
Latham & Watkins
McMillan
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
TDR Capital and I Squared Capital / Aggreko acquisition financing
Ashurst
Dickson Minto
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Slaughter and May
The Carlyle Group ESG-linked subscription facility
Arendt & Medernach
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Conyers
Latham & Watkins
Loyens & Loeff
Stikeman Elliott
Walkers
M&A
AerCap / GE Capital Aviation Services
A&L Goodbody
Clifford Chance
Cravath Swaine & Moore
McCann Fitzgerald
NautaDutilh
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Alstom / Bombardier Transportation
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Jones Day
McCarthy Tétrault
Norton Rose Fulbright
Stikeman Elliott
Canadian Pacific Railway / Kansas City Southern
Baker & Miller
Bennett Jones
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Law Office of David L Meyer
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
White & Case
WilmerHale
Grupo Televisa – Univision Communications merger
Galicia Abogados
Mijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuentes
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Grupo Werthein / Vrio
Bomchil
Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
BSZE Attorneys
Bustamante Fabara Abogados
Carey
Chancery Chambers
D’Empaire
Demarest Advogados
Guyer & Regules
Nader Hayaux & Goebel
Pollonais Blanc de la Bastide & Jacelon
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
ICON / PRA Health Sciences
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Sullivan & Cromwell
Live Nation / OCESA Entretenimiento
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Mijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuentes
Rico Robles y Libenson
London Stock Exchange / Refinitiv
Covington & Burling
Dechert
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Private equity
EQT Infrastructure / First Student and First Transit
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Slaughter and May
Global Infrastructure Partners / Saaví Energía
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Galicia Abogados
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
IG4 Capital / Aenza
Hernández & Cía Abogados
Miranda & Amado
Rubio Leguía Normand
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
I Squared Capital / Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Barranquilla (SPRB) and Sociedad Portuaria Rio Grande
Baker McKenzie
DLA Piper
Garrigues Colombia
White & Case
Winston & Strawn
KKR – Telefónica Chile fibre network JV
CMS Carey & Allende
Guerrero Olivos
Latham & Watkins
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board / Evoltz
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Linklaters
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
TozziniFreire Advogados
Project finance
Bosques Solares de Los Llanos solar financing
Brigard Urrutia
Cuatrecasas
Latham & Watkins
White & Case
Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management PPP
Ashurst
Hogan Lovells
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Torys
von Briesen & Roper
Winston & Strawn
La Pimienta financing
Allen & Overy
Galicia Abogados
Mijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuentes
White & Case
Magdalena River Highway 2
Baker McKenzie
BLP Abogados
Clifford Chance
Latham & Watkins
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Reed Smith
Sullivan & Cromwell
Vinson & Elkins
Matrix Renewables Chile private placement
Garrigues Chile
Guerrero Olivos
Milbank
Morales & Besa
White & Case
Paraguay PY02 toll road PPP refinancing
BKM Berkemeyer
Colab
Clifford Chance
White & Case
Smart Luz financing
Clifford Chance
Demarest Advogados
Lefosse Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
White & Case
Vineyard Wind
Latham & Watkins
Norton Rose Fulbright
White & Case
Restructuring
AMC Entertainment and Odeon
Gianni & Origoni
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Krogerus
McCann Fitzgerald
Milbank
NautaDutilh
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Schjødt
Uría Menéndez
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Avianca
Alta QIL+4 Abogados
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Dechert
Galicia Abogados
Mayer Brown
Milbank
Morrison & Foerster
Paul Hastings
Pryor Cashman
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Carlson Travel
Arnold & Porter
Ashurst
Dorsey & Whitney
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Shearman & Sterling
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Cinépolis
Creel García-Cuéllar y Enríquez
Galicia Abogados
Garrigues
Milbank
Skadden Arp Slate Meagher & Flom
Uría Menéndez
Hertz Global
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Kirkland & Ellis
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Odebrecht Engenharia e Construcao
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
E Munhoz Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
SpeedCast International
Goodmans
Herbert Smith Freehills
Hogan Lovells
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Valaris
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Hogan Lovells
Jackson Walker
Kirkland & Ellis
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Morrison & Foerster
Porter Hedges
Shearman & Sterling
Slaughter and May
Structured finance and securitisation
Chilean electricity tariff receivables securitisation
Carey
Claro & Cia
Clifford Chance
Guerrero Olivos
Holland & Knight
Latham & Watkins
Morales & Besa
Shearman & Sterling
Konfío whole loan sale
Mayer Brown
White & Case
Metro de Lima ECA-backed financing
Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie
Garrigues Peru
Latham & Watkins
Norton Rose Fulbright
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados
Nuevo Elektra del Milenio/Elektra remittance securitisation
Maples Group
Mayer Brown
Nader Hayaux & Goebel
NautaDutilh
Winston & Strawn
SEMT 2021-6
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Morgan Lewis
TEAMS OF THE YEAR
Debt and equity-linked
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Milbank
Shearman & Sterling
Sullivan & Cromwell
Equity
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Hogan Lovells
Latham & Watkins
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
High yield
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
DLA Piper
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Paul Hastings
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Loan
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
M&A
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Private equity
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Latham & Watkins
Kirkland & Ellis
Milbank
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Project finance
Allen & OveryClifford ChanceLatham & Watkins
Milbank
Norton Rose Fulbright
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
White & Case
Restructuring
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Kirkland & Ellis
Milbank
Shearman & Sterling
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Structured finance and securitisation
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft Clifford Chance
Dechert
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Weil Gotshal & Manges
CFIUS
Covington & Burling
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case
Financial services regulatory
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Net-zero transition award
Brigard Urrutia
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Galicia Abogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice
Milbank
Nader Hayaux & Goebel
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Shearman & Sterling
LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Americas firm of the year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case
IN-HOUSE TEAMS OF THE YEAR
In-house debt
Bank of America
Citi
Credit Suisse
Goldman Sachs
HSBC
Itaú
JP Morgan
Santander
In-house equity
Allen & Co
BoA Securities
Citi
Credit Suisse
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley
UBS
In-house corporate
Bombardier
Coca-Cola FEMSA
FirstGroup
Grupo Bimbo
Grupo Werthein
Hertz
IBM
Televisa
NATIONAL LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Argentina
Beccar Varela
Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Estudio Jurídico Marval O’Farrell Mairal
Mitrani Caballero & Ruiz Moreno
Salaverri Burgio & Wetzler Malbrán
Tanoira Cassagne Abogados
Brazil
Banking and finance
Lefosse Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Tauil & Chequer Advogados
Veirano Advogados
Capital markets
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Stocche Forbes Advogados
Corporate
BMA - Barbosa Müssnich Aragão
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Demarest Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
NB: No shortlist for Brazil firm of the year – the overall winner will be announced when winners are revealed
Canada
Bennett Jones
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Goodmans
McCarthy Tétrault
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Stikeman Elliott
Torys
Central America (excluding Panama & Costa Rica)
Arias
BLP
Consortium Legal
García & Bodán
Sfera
Chile
Carey
Claro y Cía
Garrigues Chile
Guerrero Olivos
Morales & Besa
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Colombia
Brigard Urrutia
Garrigues Colombia
Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Costa Rica
Arias
BLP
Consortium Legal
Nassar Abogados
Sfera
Dominican Republic
Headrick Rizik Alvarez & Fernandez
OMG
Pellerano & Herrera
Squire Patton Boggs Peña Prieto Gamundi
Pellerano Nadal
Mexico
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y EnríquezGalicia Abogados
Gonzalez Calvillo
Mayer Brown
Mijares Angoitia Cortés & Fuentes
Nader Hayaux y Goebel
Rico Robles Libenson
Ritch Mueller y Nicolau
Panama
Alemán Cordero Galindo & Lee
Arias
Arias Fábrega & Fábrega
Galindo Arias & López
Morgan & Morgan
Paraguay
Colab
Estudio Jurídico Gross Brown
Ferrere
Parquet y Asociados Abogados
BKM Berkemeyer
Peru
Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie International
Garrigues Peru
Hernández & Cía Abogados
Miranda & Amado
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados
Rubio Leguía Normand
Uruguay
Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga
Ferrere
Guyer & Regules
Hughes & Hughes
Posadas Posadas & Vecino
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Women Dealmakers Hall of Fame
Inés Baca de la Piedra – Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie International
Luisa Lopes – B3
Kimberly Petillo-Décossard – Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Roberta Giamattey Pimentel Fonseca – Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados
Anna Pinedo – Mayer Brown
Pilar Ramos – TelevisaUnivision
Cynthia Urda Kassis – Shearman & Sterling
Taurie Zeitzer – Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
