Bankers celebrate as Cavallo buys a little time

Headline: Bankers celebrate as Cavallo buys a little time Source: EuromoneyDate: July 2001Author: Danielle Robinson Argentina’s $29.5 billion sovereign debt exchange deal was a great coup for the banks lead-managing it. Liability management deals are making up for a slowdown in the emerging-market debt business. How much it helped Argentina is less clear. Investors participated […]

Headline: Bankers celebrate as Cavallo buys a little time
Source: Euromoney
Date: July 2001
Author: Danielle Robinson

Argentina’s $29.5 billion sovereign debt exchange deal was a great coup for the banks lead-managing it. Liability management deals are making up for a slowdown in the emerging-market debt business. How much it helped Argentina is less clear. Investors participated for technical reasons, not out of faith that the economy is improving.

       
Executing a multi-billion debt deal is always a daunting prospect, but when a country’s entire economic survival plan depends on it, the exercise can be hair-raising, as the seven lead-managers of Argentina’s voluntary debt exchange discovered in June.






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