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Posadas has been recognized with the “Deal of the Year award” under the “Mergers and acquisitions: Private Companies” category of the Latin Lawyer Awards 2024

13/05/2024

Posadas has been awarded the “Deal of the Year 2023” under the “M&A: Private Companies” category of the Latin Lawyer Awards.

The Deal of the Year award recognizes emblematic cases in Latin America in eleven categories and was awarded to our firm for its work as advisors to Aligned Data Centers to acquire ODATA from Patria and CyrusOne.

We congratulate the professionals who worked on this transaction: Andrés Aznárez, Paula Cabarcos, Paula Costa, Jacinta Inciarte, and Karina Souza.

We thank Latin Lawyer for this distinction and the other firms that worked together with us for their dedication and professionalism.

Latin Lawyer shared information about these Awards on their website:

 

Latin Lawyer announces Deal of the Year winners

Latin Lawyer announced the winners of its 18th annual Deal of the Year Awards at a charity awards ceremony last week in São Paulo, which was attended by over 200 guests.

The winning deals are:

Regulatory matter – Hapag-Lloyd gets antitrust clearance for US$1 billion SAAM acquisition

Disputes – Telefónica, América Móvil and TIM settle Brazilian M&A dispute with Oi

Restructuring – Samarco enforces judicial reorganisation plan

Project finance: infrastructure – Patria desalination plants get US$883 million credit line in Chile

Project finance: energy and natural resources – IFC makes first investment in lithium sector with Argentine project

Private equity – Brazilian PE fund Treecorp invests in Coritiba football club

ESG finance – Ecuador completes largest debt-for-nature swap

Banking & finance – StoneCo gets loan for women-led businesses

Capital markets – Mexican real estate business Vesta launches IPO on NYSE

Mergers and acquisitions: public companies – General Atlantic and Dragoneer take Brazil’s Arco private

Mergers and acquisitions: private companies – Aligned buys ODATA from Patria and Cyrus One 

Deals and cases across 11 categories were presented at a charity dinner at Hotel Unique last night, with 30% of the revenue from the event donated to Latin American clearinghouses Brazil’s Instituto Pro Bono, Fundación Pro Bono Colombia and Appleseed Mexico. 

Latin Lawyer also presented Individual Awards to lawyers, firms and projects across eight categories. Moshe Sendacz of Brazil’s Machado Meyer Advogados and José Astigarraga of Reed Smith LLP both received Lifetime Achievement awards, whilst Fulvio Italiani of Venezuela’s D’Empaire was named Law Firm Leader of the Year and Conrado Tenaglia of Linklaters’s Latin America practice group was named International Lawyer of the Year. Ana Utumi of Brazil’s Utumi Advogados received the award for Specialist Law Firm Leader of the Year. 

Peru’s Benites, Vargas & Ugaz Abogados was this year’s recipient of Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year, whilst a number of Colombian law firms were honoured for their work on ProBono Sin Fronteras – this year’s Pro Bono Project of the Year. 

Ferrere (Uruguay) was handed the ESG Initiative of the Year award for its Liberados project and Brazil’s Mattos Filho won Diversity Initiative of the Year. Interviews with recipients of the Individual Awards will be published in upcoming briefings. 

Congratulation to this year’s winners. 

To read the full article, please visit Latin Lawyer’s website.