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. Please note there is no shortlist for national law firm of the year award winners. Those will be announced on the night.
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 iflrawards@euromoneyny.com
The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, March 29 at Essex House in New York City.
On the night we will present Sullivan & Cromwell’s H Rodgin Cohen with the contribution to regulatory reform award, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Gary Lynch with the lifetime achievement award.
To reserve your table please email Melanie Petch at mpetch@euromoneyplc.com or call on +44 207 779 8836.
For Latin American enquiries, please contact Roberto Miranda at rmiranda@euromoneyplc.com or call +44 207 779 8435
DEALS
Debt and equity-linked deal of the year
Barrick Gold
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
BBVA Paraguay
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Estudio Juridico Gross Brown
Mersan Abogados
Shearman & Sterling
Emegsa
Chadbourne & Parke
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta Abogados
Prieto & Carrizosa
ICE
Consortium - Laclé & Gutiérrez
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
White & Case
ITT notes offering and tender offer
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Minerva convertible debentures
Lefosse Advogados
Linklaters
Pinheiro Neto
White and Case
Equity deal of the year
AIG re-IPO
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Sullivan & Cromwell
Delphi IPO
Carey Olsen
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Fibra Uno Reits
Clifford Chance
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Robles Miaja Abogados
Thompson & Knight
HCA Holdings IPO
Bass Berry & Sims
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Winston & Strawn
Mosaic spin-off
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
Loeb & Loeb
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Nielsen IPO
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Clifford Chance
Loyens & Loeff
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
High yield deal of the year
Chrysler Group
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Sullivan & Cromwell
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
CIT Group notes offering and exchange offer
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Sullivan & Cromwell
CityCenter Las Vegas refinancing
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Mayer Brown
Paul Hastings
Kinetic Concepts
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Kirkland & Ellis
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Torys
Weil Gotshal & Manges
OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
White & Case
Warner notes offering, consent solicitation and tender offer
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
M&A deal of the year
ArcelorMittal and Iron Ore Holdings/Baffinland Iron Mines
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Ogilvy Renault
Stikeman Elliot
Braskem/Dow Chemical polypropylene business
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Grupo Sura/ING Latin American businesses
Carey y Cía
Galicia Abogados
Guyer & Regules
Jáuregui y Navarrete
Larraín Rencoret Lackington & Urzúa Abogados
Olivera Abogados
Paul Hastings
Pizarro Botto & Escobar Abogados
Prieto & Carrizosa
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados
Rodríguez Azuero Abogados
Shearman & Sterling
Sullivan and Cromwell
Harbin Electric take-private
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Lionel Sawyer & Collins
Loeb & Loeb
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Snell & Wilmer
Rockstar Bidco/Nortel Networks’ patent portfolio
Allen & Overy
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Covington & Burling
Goodmans
Herbert Smith
Irell & Manella
McCarthy Tétrault
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
Norton Rose
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Stikeman Elliott
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Sanofi-aventis/Genzyme
Ropes & Gray
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Private equity deal of the year
Berkshire Partners and OMERS/Husky International
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
McCarthy Tétrault
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Torys
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Mirae Asset Private Equity and Fila Korea/Acushnet
Chadbourne & Parke
McDermott Will & Emery
Samson Investment buyout
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Jones Day
Latham & Watkins
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
TMM Holdings/Taylor Morrison and Monarch Homes
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
McCarthy Tétrault
McMillan
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Ropes & Gray
Stikeman Elliott
Project finance deal of the year
Embraport
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Dias Carneiro Advogados
Hogan Lovells
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Pinheiro Neto
Souza Cescon,Barrieu Flesh Advogados
White & Case
Juan Santamaria International Airport
Azevedo Sette Advogados
BCM Abogados
Clifford Chance
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Ogilvy Renault
OSX 2 floating production and offloading vessel
Allen & Overy
Souza Cescon,Barrieu Flesh Advogados
White & Case
PR-22 and PR-5 concession
Adsuar Muñiz Goyco Seda & Pérez-Ochoa
Allen & Overy
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
McConnell Valdés
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Pietrantoni Mendez & Alvarez
Russell City Energy Center
Latham & Watkins
White & Case
Taboada Wastewater Treatment Plant Project
Chadbourne & Parke
DLA Piper
Estudio Ávila y Abogados
Hogan Lovells
Maples and Calder
Rubio Leguía Normand
Zapallal - Trujillo Transmission Line
Estudio Echecopar
Estudio Santivañez Abogados
Restructuring deal of the year
Angiotech Pharmaceuticals
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Allen & Overy
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Goodmans
Latham & Watkins
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Stikeman Elliott
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor
Caribbean Petroleum
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Morrison & Foerster
O'Neill & Borges
Pepper Hamilton
Richards Layton & Finger
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Graceway Pharmaceuticals
Bennett Jones
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Debevoise & Plimpton
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Goodmans
Latham & Watkins
McMillan
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Napcus
Bifferato Gentilotti
Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle
Kirkland & Ellis
Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg
Martin & Drought
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor
South Edge
Bogatz & Associates
Fennemore Craig
Haynes and Boone
Jolley Urga Wirth Woodbury & Standish
Klee Tuchin Bogdanoff & Stern
Kolesar & Leatham
Lewis and Roca
McGuire Woods
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Miller & Wright
Morrison & Foerster
Stutman Treister & Glatt
Travelport
Dewey & LeBoeuf
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Structured finance and securitisation deal of the year
BNP Paribas/Janus Protected Series - Growth
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
K&L Gates
CapOne forward sale
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Morrison & Foerster
Desjardins’ global covered bond programme
Allen & Overy
McCarthy Tétrault
Mayer Brown
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Fovissste MBS
Chadbourne & Parke
White & Case
PowerShares DB Inflation/Deflation ETNs
Davis Polk & Wardwell
VelocityShares/Credit Suisse VIX ETNs
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Davis Polk & Wardwell
TEAMS
Debt and equity-linked team of the year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
White & Case
Equity team of the year
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Clifford Chance
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Financial regulation team of the year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Morrison & Foerster
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
High yield team of the year
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
M&A team of the year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Private equity team of the year
Davis Polk & Wardwell
McCarthy Tétrault
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Project finance team of the year
Allen & Overy
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case
Restructuring team of the year
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Goodmans
Latham & Watkins
Morrison & Foerster
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Securitisation and structured finance team of the year
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Chadbourne & Parke
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mayer Brown
Morrison & Foerster
White & Case
In-house debt team of the year
Bank of America
Barclays
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley
In-house equity team of the year
Bank of America
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley
Americas law firm of the year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Morrison & Foerster
Shearman & Sterling
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
White & Case