Los Ramones II Sur, Rutas de Lima Deals Win LatinFinance

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Oct 1, 2015) - The financing backing the Los Ramones II Sur pipeline has won three of LatinFinance's 2015 Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards. The Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards, which were presented at an event in New York on September 30, recognize the most impressive transactions, lenders and sponsors in a field critical to the region's economic progress. The Los Ramones II Sur financing stood out for its execution in a highly dynamic regulatory environment and for setting a benchmark for midstream financing in Mexico, which is anticipating billions of dollars in pipeline development in the coming decades. It won the Best Loan, Best Oil & Gas Financing and the Best Infrastructure Financing: Mexico categories.

"Lenders, attorneys and borrowers had to navigate a number of unusual challenges in the midst of the country's landmark energy reform to bring Los Ramones II Sur to the finish line. The deal has paved the way for project financings under Mexico's new energy regime," said LatinFinance editor in chief Katie Llanos-Small. Affiliates of Pemex and GDF Suez are the developers of Los Ramones II Sur.

Rutas de Lima also garnered a trio of awards, including Best Local Currency Financing, Best Road Financing and Best Infrastructure Financing: Andes. The consortium developing the 72-mile Peruvian highway project took out a $200 million bank loan and issued a $520 million Peruvian sol-denominated bond that lured international and local investors. "This transaction not only met the long-term needs of the borrower, but also demonstrated a new depth in the project bond market in the international arena," Llanos-Small said.

Other winners in LatinFinance's Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards include: TV Azteca and Tendai's Red Dorsal bond deal, Grupo Cobra, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Machado Meyer, Credicorp Capital and White & Case. A full list of winners is below, and available at latinfinance.com/infrastructureawards.

LatinFinance Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards winners:
The LatinFinance Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards acknowledge the most impressive deals executed, and institutions active, across Latin America and the Caribbean between June 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015. Please click through for full details on the winner in each category.

Selection process:
The awards are selected by the LatinFinance editorial team. The selection process takes into account the market significance or strategic importance of deals as well as how these transactions were structured, received and executed. Volume and diversity of transactions, innovation and approach to market timing and examination of financial data also went toward determining the winning institutions. For more information on the awards go to latinfinance.com/infrastructureawards.

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Los Ramones II Sur, Rutas de Lima Deals Win LatinFinance Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards 2015

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