The Firm recently represented the Republic of Peru in connection with the issuance of approximately US$2.5 billion sovereign bonds in two separate transactions that closed simultaneously. The transactions included (i) the issuance and sale of S/. 4.19 billion (US$1.5 billion) of nuevo sol-denominated bonos soberanos due 2020, which were initially purchased by Scotiabank Peru and resold as global depositary notes by Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley to qualified institutional buyers in the United States in reliance on Rule 144A and outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S and (ii) the issuance and sale of US$1 billion U.S. dollar-denominated global bonds due 2050 in an SEC-registered offering underwritten by Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley.
The bonos soberanos issuance is the largest offering to international investors of bonds denominated in local currency by a Latin American issuer.
The Simpson Thacher team for the transaction included Jaime Mercado, Juan Francisco Méndez, Jorge Allende, Alejandro Osma, Jonathan Cantor and Jennifer Klein.
