Private Sector
- Advice, structuring and coordination
of Capex’ $164m IPO (Argentina).
- Advice, structuring and coordination
of Supermercados Unimarc’s IPO (Chile)
as well
as the company’s search for strategic
partners in Europe.
- Leading role in other IPO’s
and equity issues in the region between 1992
and 2000.
- Structuring of $800m acquisition
financing for YPF (Maxus).
- Structuring of $150m receivables
backed financing for Aluar (Argentina).
- Advise to Banco Sudameris on
acquisition of Banco de Lima (Peru).
- Arranged and raised project
finance of Propal for CAP (Chile).
- Arranged trade related and project
financings for Soquimich (Chile).
- Advised major retail chain in
Chile on strategic options.
- Advised oil company on debt
restructuring/renegotiation.
- Financing and debt restructuring
for Gatic (Argentina).
- Advised US investment bank on
privatization bid in Bolivia.
- Raised capital for internet
project in Argentina.
- Advising an internet company
developing a Latin American financial services
web
site for the B-to-B marketplace.
- Advising a software company
that develops back-office solution for telecom
service providers.
- Advising a facilities-based
CLEC that provides voice and high speed data
services to the U.S. Hispanic community.
Public Sector
This includes many high profile,
multi-billion dollar transactions, such as:
- The $4 billion privatization
of Argentine Water and Sewage system.
- The $7.9 billion privatization
of the Argentine Airport system.
- The $2 billion privatization
of the National Mortgage Bank of Argentina
(Banco Hipotecario Nacional).
- The initial privatization
of the $8 billion Yacyretá Hydro-electric
dam.
- The $3 billion privatization
IPO of YPF and the $600m privatization IPO
of TGS in Argentina.
- The $1 billion restructuring
of the Argentine National Reinsurance Agency
(Instituto Nacional de Reaseguros).
- Other landmark privatizations
in Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentine provinces.
- Structured and asset-backed
financings for governments.
- Advisor and arranger of dozens
of sovereign bond issues in the Region.
Real Estate and Agriculture
- Advised major Argentine agricultural
groups on capital structures and on international
investments.
- $75 million loan to developer
in Recife (Brazil).
- $120 million equity and debt
investment by US investor in real estate developments
in Argentina, Chile and Brazil.
- $100 million loan to Brazilian
real estate developer.
- $20 million equity financing
of office/residential tower in Buenos Aires.
Project Finance
- Advised Flowtite Argentina on
$55m financing for Canal Federal project, including
NIB and GIEK funding.
- $79m financing on Acueducto
del Rio Colorado (water supply to La Pampa Province),
including Spanish and Norwegian export credits,
NIB and commercial bank funding.
- Arranged JV and $12m financing
for Flowtite Adercol in Colombia for production
of
glassfiber pipes.
- Advised Costa Rican Ministry
for Energy & Environment on reforestation
of the
watershed Rio Virilla, including financial engineering
and joint implementation with
Norway and Costa Rica.
- Advised Kvaerner Engineering,
ABB, and NCC on $49m financing of Hydroelectric
power plant in Costa Rica.
- Advised Statskraft Engineering
on feasibility study on Balsa Superior hydroelectric
plant in Costa Rica.
- Advised Inversiones Monte del
Barco on $12m tourist project in Costa Rica.
- Advised Norwegian Ministry
of Foreign Affairs on Cuban market study.
- Advised Global Environmental
Facility in Cuba, Jamaica, Colombia & Costa
Rica.
- Advised ABB Alstom, NCC, GE
Hydro and Statskraft on Project Guaigui in Dominican
Republic, including $48m financing.
- Advised several state utilities
and Nordic sponsors on infrastructure projects
in Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica and El Salvador.
- Advised on similar projects
in India, Namibia and Turkey.
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