Santiago Saenz’ AR$ 15 million Class III Short Term Notes Issuance Deal Counsel

Deal counsel in the issuance of Santiago Saenz S.A.’s AR$ 15,000,000 Class III short-term Notes under its AR$35.000.0000 Global Short-Term Notes Programme, counsel to Banco de Servicios y Transacciones S.A., as arranger and placement agent and BDO Finanzas Corporativas S.A., as financial advisor. (2014)


Province of Mendoza AR$ 210 million Short-Term Treasury Notes Issuance

Deal Counsel and Counsel to Puente Hnos. Sociedad de Bolsa

Deal counsel in the issuance of the Province of Mendoza’s AR$ 210,000,000 Treasury Notes. Puente Hnos. Sociedad de Bolsa S.A. acted as arranger and lead placement agent and Nación Bursátil Sociedad de Bolsa S.A. acted as co-placement agent. (2014)


MSU’s $9.9 million Series III Notes Issuance

Legal Counsel to the Arrangers and Placement Agents, Banco de Galicia, BACS and Banco Hipotecario.

Legal counsel to Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A., BACS Banco de Crédito y Securitización S.A. and Banco Hipotecario S.A, as arrangers and placement agents in the issuance of MSU S.A.’s $9,9 Series III Notes, under the $ 50,000,000 Global Notes Programme. (2013)


Santiago Saenz’ AR$ 20 million Class II Short Term Notes Issuance

Deal counsel in the issuance of Santiago Saenz S.A.’s AR$20,000,000 Class II short-term Notes under its AR$35.000.0000 Global Short-Term Notes Programme, counsel to Banco de Servicios y Transacciones S.A., as arranger and placement agent and BDO Finanzas Corporativas S.A., as financial advisor. (2014)


Tavarone Rovelli and Salaverri Dellatorre in thermoelectric debt offering

Published in Latinlawyer.com, Monday, 19 May 2014

Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani has helped Argentine thermoelectric company Generación Mediterránea (GEMSA) raise US$12.4 million in a debt securities offering, some of the funds from which were used to repay a US$17.9 million syndicated bank loan.

Salaverri, Dellatorre, Burgio & Wetzler Malbrán advised both the underwriters of the debt offering and the arrangers of the loan.

The electricity company used US$8.3 million from the issuance to prepay some of the lending banks. GEMSA and the banks also agreed on new terms governing how the loan will be paid off and created new collateral over the financing facility from GEMSA’s energy sale agreements. Tavarone Rovelli also advised Banco de Servicios y Transacciones, which acted as trustee and collateral agent of the syndicated loan.

GEMSA owns the Modesto Maranzana thermal power plant in Río Cuarto, in Córdoba province, central Argentina.

The transaction closed on 9 May.

The underwriters included the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Argentina), Banco Itaú Argentina, Banco Macro, Macro Securities and Banco de Servicios y Transacciones. The lead arrangers of the loan were Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Banco Itaú Argentina.

Counsel to GEMSA and Banco de Servicios y Transacciones

Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani

To GEMSA

Partners Marcelo Tavarone and Juan Pablo Bove and associates María Sol Ramoneda, Matías Otero, Nicolás Peralta Ramos and Catalina Menéndez

To Banco de Servicios y Transacciones

Partner Federico Salim and associate Juan Pedro Pascucci

Counsel to the underwriters and arrangers

Salaverri, Dellatorre, Burgio & Wetzler Malbrán

Partners Tomás Arnaude, Germán Wetzler Malbrán and Victoria Hitce, and associates Pablo Fernández Pujadas, Romina Mancuso, Luciana Díaz Gómez, Carolina Mallmann and Romina Mancuso


BeST Consumer Finance Serie XXXIII” Financial Trust for AR$ 148,100,000

Deal counsel in the issuance and placement in Argentina of trust securities for AR $ 148,100,00 issued under the “BeST Consumer Finance Serie XXXIII” Financial Trust, in which Banco de Servicios y Transacciones S.A. acted as arranger, trustor, servicer and custodian, and TMF Trust Company (Argentina) S.A acted as trustee. (2014)


Buenos Aires’ first logistics hub obtains funding

Published in Latinlawyer.com, Tuesday, 20 May 2014.

Argentina’s Balbín & Pascual and Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani – Abogados have helped launch financial trusts worth a combined US$14.7 million to fund Buenos Aires’ first logistics hub.

CTC Administradora, the company developing the 37-hectare site in the capital’s south-west, received counsel from Balbín & Pascual, while the TMF Trust Company as trustee turned to Tavarone Rovelli. The transaction closed last week.

The deal saw two trusts launched. The first, worth US$4.8 million, has CTC shareholders as its settlors and was created following a transfer of shares. The second, worth US$9.9 million, has CTC as its settlor. CTC has assigned the second trust development and exploitation rights over the project.

The proceeds generated from the trusts will be used to construct the logistics hub, which was first tendered by the Buenos Aires’ municipal government in 2012. Officials hope that by creating a central point from which transport companies can load and offload goods, delivery times will improve and traffic flows will lighten in the capital’s congested southern quarter.

The transaction is the second deal reported on by Latin Lawyer that Tavarone Rovelli has taken on since the firm opened its doors in March.

Counsel to TMF Trust

Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani – Abogados

Partner Marcelo Tavarone and associates María Sol Ramoneda and Nicolás Peralta Ramos

Counsel to CTCAdministradora

Balbín & Pascual

Associate Juan Bussolini Miguez


Consumo Vida Serie IV” Financial Trust for AR$ 49 million

Deal counsel in the issuance and placement in Argentina of trust securities for AR$ 49,200,000 issued under the “Consumo Vida Serie IV” Financial Trust, in which Banco de Servicios y Transacciones S.A. acted as trustee, structuring and placement agent and successor administrator and Cooperativa de Crédito, Consumo y Servicios Sociales La Plata Ltda., Credymand S.A. and Promotora Social Vida S.A. acted as settlors. (2014)


“Fideicomiso Sector 1” and “Fideicomiso CTC Desarrollo Infraestructura” Financial Trusts for AR$ 39 million and AR$ 80 million

Deal counsel in the constitution of “Fideicomiso Sector 1” and “Fideicomiso CTC Desarrollo Infraestructura” financial trusts for the issuance of debt securities up to AR$ million and AR$ 80 million intended to finance the construction of a Logistics Centre Hub that will function in the City of Buenos Aires in which TMF Trust Company (Argentina) S.A acted as trustee. (2014)


Amendment and Renewal of Syndicated Bank Loan of AR$ 144.5 million

Legal Counsel of the Borrower.

Counsel of Generación Mediterránea S.A. in the amendment and renewal of a syndicated bank loan of $ 144.500.000. Acted as syndicated financial Organizers, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China S.A. and Banco Itaú Argentina S.A. (2014)