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Mayer Brown

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Mayer Brown has a genuinely wide-ranging Latin America capital markets practice. It has a longstanding presence in energy and infrastructure bonds, high-yield and investment-grade bonds, private placements, liability management, and securitisation and structured financings. Additionally, the firm is building its standing in IPOs and equity offerings, especially in Brazil through its partner firm Tauil & Chequer Advogados. It has continued to advise on a series of infrastructure financings, often through private placements, and remains at the forefront of diversified payments rights programmes. It also has a growing office in Mexico City. Chicago partner Douglas Doetsch leads the Latin America group and has an outstanding record in infrastructure bond financings and future cash flow securitisations, including diversified payments rights programmes. Chicago’s Juan Pablo Moreno is licensed to practice in Colombia, New York and Illinois, and is also noted for diversified payments rights programmes, debt offerings and other structured finance transactions. Washington DC partner Gabriela Sakamoto is rated for private placement financings for infrastructure projects and securitisations. New York’s David Bakst  is another key member of the team.

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Key clients

  • Banco Santander
  • Bank of Nova Scotia
  • BNP Paribas
  • Bradesco
  • Pacific Life Insurance Company
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Global Bank
  • Diatoms
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • Wells Fargo

Work highlights

  • Represented Global Bank Corporation, as originator, in the establishment of a diversified payment rights programme.
  • Advised Goldman Sachs, as sole structuring agent and placement agent, on Banco Pichincha's issuance of a second series of notes under its diversified payment rights securitisation programme.
  • Represented the concessionaire in obtaining a $170m financing to complete works on the Costanera Sur project in Paraguay, which included a $130m private placement of notes by a special purpose vehicle.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Douglas Doetsch