The nominations for this year’s IFLR Americas awards have been announced. For all the deal and team of the year shortlists, please see below.
The law firms listed on each deal are based on preliminary research and submissions. If your firm advised on one of these deals but we do not have you listed, please email Nicholas Pettifer at npettifer@euromoneyny.com
The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday March 25 in New York
To reserve your table please email Roberto Miranda on rmiranda@euromoneyplc.com or +44 207 779 8435.
DEBT AND EQUITY-LINKED DEAL OF THE YEAR
Bank of America’s Common Equivalent Securities
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
McGuireWoods
Morrison & Foerster
Richards Layton & Finger
Dow Chemical
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Dechert
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
Mayer Brown
Shearman & Sterling
Ecopetrol
Chadbourne & Parke
Durán & Osorio Abogados Asociados
Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta
Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn
Shearman & Sterling
Ford Motor Company’s convertible notes offering
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Shearman & Sterling
Sterlite Industries’ convertible bond
Latham & Watkins
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices
S&R Associates
Shearman & Sterling
US Central Federal Credit Union senior notes offering
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Stinson Morrison Hecker
EQUITY DEAL OF THE YEAR
Banco Santander (Brasil) IPO
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Shearman & Sterling
Bank of America’s ATM offering
McGuireWoods
Morrison & Foerster
GHL Acquisition offering
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Morrison & Foerster
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Starwood Property Trust IPO
DLA Piper
Sidley Austin
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
VisaNet IPO
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filjo Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR
Banco Santander/Sovereign Bancorp
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Sullivan & Cromwell
Uría Menéndez
Hisamitsu/Noven
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Debevoise & Plimpton
Latham & Watkins
Nishimura & Asahi
Merck/Schering-Plough
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Covington & Burling
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr
Roche/Genentech
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Homburger
Latham & Watkins
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Sinopec/Addax
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Fraser Milner Casgrain
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Stikeman Elliott
Vinson & Elkins
Warner Chilcott/Proctor & Gamble’s pharmaceutical business
Appleby
Arthur Cox
Covington & Burling
Cruz & Co
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Donovan & Yee
Fitzpatrick Harper & Ciella
Herbert Smith
Homburger
Kyriakides Georgopoulos & Daniolos Issaias
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
NautaDutilh
Noble & Scheidecker
O’Neill & Borges
Ogilvy Renault
Salans
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Studio Legale Ughi e Nunziante
VWEW Advocaten
PRIVATE EQUITY DEAL OF THE YEAR
Bank United acquisition
Paul Hastings
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Elliott Management and Symphony Technology/MSC Software
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
General Atlantic and KKR/Tasc
Arent Fox
Arnold & Porter
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Harbourvest/Lehman Brothers Venture Partners
Cooley Godward Kronish
Debevoise & Plimpton
Weil Gotshal & Manges
PROJECT FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR
CNAA Brazilian Biofuels
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Xavier Bernardes Bragança
Manzanillo LNG
Allen & Overy
Creel García-Cuellar Aiza y Enriquez
Lopez Velarde Heftye y Soria
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Minera Esperanza project
Sullivan & Cromwell
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Jara del Favero Abogados
Odebrecht Norbe VIII and IX
Clifford Chance
Gus Constantakis Chambers
Maples and Calder
Mayer Brown
Souza Cescon Barrieu & Flesch Advogados
White & Case
Yulcon
Pecém coal-fired thermal power plant
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Felsberg e Avogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
São Paulo Rodoanel ring road
Clifford Chance
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice
Mayer Brown
Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva
Termoflores IV
Cardenas & Cardenas
Clifford Chance
Maples and Calder
Prieto & Carrizosa
White & Case
RESTRUCTURING OF THE YEAR
Asarco
Baker Botts
Cohen, Weiss and Simon
Haynes & Boone
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Oppenheimer Blend Harrison and Tate
Reed Smith
Stutzman, Bromberg & Esserman
Biltrite Rubber
Allen & Overy
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Frost Brown Todd
Goodmans
Kohrman Jackson & Krantz
Cemex
Allens Arthur Robinson
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Fulbright & Jaworski
GHR Rechtsanwälte
Liskow & Lewis
Matheson Ormsby Prentice
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Slaughter and May
Uría Menéndez
Warendorf
Chrysler
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Goodmans
Jones Day
McCarthy Tétrault
Shulte Roth & Zabel
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
White & Case
CIT Group
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Sullivan & Cromwell
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Nortel Networks
Allen & Overy
Bennett Jones
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Fraser Milner Casgrain
Goodmans
Herbert Smith
Koskie Minsky
Nelligan O’Brien Payne
Ogilvy Renault
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Palire Roland Rosenberg Rothstein
Shibley Righton
Thornton Grout Finnigan
SemGroup
Allen & Overy
Andrews & Kurth
Bingham McCutchen
Blank Rome
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Connor & Winters
Goodmans
Kaye Scholer
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges
Richards Layton & Finger
Stikeman Elliott
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor
SECURITISATION OF THE YEAR
AGF RMBS programme
Hunton & Williams
Hertz fleet securitization
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Royal Bank of Canada’s EquityCompass linked notes
Morrison & Foerster
Vitro trade receivables securitisation
Bufete Labastida
Gallastegui y Lozano
Kuri Breña Sánchez Ugarte y Aznar
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
TEAMS OF THE YEAR
Debt and equity-linked team
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Morrison & Foerster
Shearman & Sterling
Sullivan & Cromwell
Equity team
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Morrison & Foerster
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
M&A team
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Private equity team
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Project finance team
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Mayer Brown
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
White & Case
Restructuring team
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Morrison & Foerster
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Securitisation team
Hunton & Williams
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Morrison & Foerster
Weil Gotshal & Manges
In-house team
Bank of America
Barclays
Citigroup
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
US law firm of the year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Morrison & Foerster
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Weil Gotshal & Manges