Rob Dwyer

Recent stories by Rob Dwyer

• Barclays beats locals to launch Brazil infrastructure bond

  The first tax-exempt domestic infrastructure bond has been issued in Brazil. Concessionária Rodovias do Tietê, a toll road operator, has issued R$650 million in 12-year debt.

  Published May 2012 euromoney.com

• IPO: BTG undertakes exemplary listing

  BTG Pactual’s IPO offered lessons to other Brazilian issuers about pricing discipline, and to other partnership banks about ownership structures.

  Euromoney May 2012

• Latin America high-yield: Bond outflows are a blip

  Euromoney May 2012

• Brazil prints R$3 billion bond for liability exercise

  Deal part of liability management exercise; Pemex pioneers LatAm Aussie dollar market

  Euromoney May 2012

• Ratings: Uruguay joins IG club, Argentina goes other way

  Upgrade will have limited impact; Argentine YPF coup is troubling move

  Euromoney May 2012

• Brazil: BTG demonstrates path to IPO success

  Bank becomes Brazil’s 16th-largest company; Problems persist with smaller deals

  Euromoney May 2012

• Colombia: Political complacency could cost a decade

  Structural reforms needed to reach potential; Colombia example of growth by fiscal reform

  Euromoney April 2012

• Brazil: BTG recapitalizes for next growth phase

  Euromoney April 2012

• Bolivia: BAML and Goldman win Bolivian mandate

  Euromoney April 2012

• Brazil: Mantega talks of war as Dutch disease diagnosed

  US now cheaper than Brazil for production; Chile and Argentina also suffering

  Euromoney April 2012

• Brazil: Mantega needs to move war to home soil

  Brazil’s finance minister should prepare for a fiscal – not currency – fight.

  Euromoney April 2012

• Brazil: Time to go back to IPO textbook?

  It could be nine months between Brazil’s last IPO and its next, leading investors to urge banks to do a better job of reining in candidates’ pricing expectations.

  Euromoney March 2012

• Embraer CFO: High-flier tempted by low-cost debt

  In his first interview as new CFO of Embraer, Paulo Penido Marques says the company is well placed to diversify and grow with its current balance sheet – but he is tempted by the rates on offer in the international debt capital market to pre-fund some 2012 capex.

  Euromoney March 2012

• Brazil: Pressure builds as IPOs remain elusive

  As of late February Brazil was yet to see its first IPO of 2012, leading ECM bankers to ponder what was needed to get an issuer successfully to market.

  Euromoney March 2012

• Investors pour into hot new issue market

  Primary issuance in Latin American DCM is enjoying unprecedented liquidity, supply and deal volumes. The region is leading the 2012 emerging market fixed-income resurgence, and the battle for power between issuers and investors is developing into a fascinating contest.

  Euromoney March 2012

• Argentina: Rules keep Argentina tied to the ground

  Tighter rules on imports and capital outflows; Potential export growth being stymied

  Euromoney March 2012

• Brazil: Strong real leads to new IOF fears

  IOF tax blamed for fall in Bovespa; Brazil ‘must stop jerry-rigging’

  Euromoney March 2012

• Investors accuse Brazil of “jerry-rigging currency”

  International investors are in uproar over Brazil’s latest attempt to manage its currency by extending steep tax charges for foreign market participants on a variety of financial instruments

  Published March 2012 euromoney.com

• Bolivia readies international bond

  Luis Arce, Bolivia’s economy and public finance minister, exclusively tells Euromoney he is working with Latin American development bank CAF in preparation of issuing a $500 million international bond

  Published February 2012 euromoney.com

• Brazilian bookrunners hailed as catalyst behind Gerdau deal success

  Gerdau’s CFO cites the raft of Brazilian bookrunners as the reason for completing an international landmark transaction that won the company a Euromoney Deals of the Year award

  Published February 2012 euromoney.com