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Antonia E. Stolper
Partner

Education
New York University School of Law, J.D., 1988
Yale University, B.A., 1979

Practice
Ms. Stolper is a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s New York office. Ms. Stolper’s practice focuses primarily on corporate finance transactions in emerging markets. She has extensive registered public offering experience for foreign private issuers. Recently her practice has focused on debt and equity securities offerings for Latin American corporate and sovereign issuers, representing both underwriters and issuers, and on restructuring transactions, primarily in Latin America, representing issuers, dealer managers and creditors. In addition, she advises a number of foreign and domestic issuers on their ongoing SEC reporting requirements, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and corporate governance matters.

Recent Experience
  • Ecopetrol S.A., the Colombian state oil company, in connection with its listing on the New York Stock Exchange and subsequent US$1.5 billion notes offering
  • Central American Bank for Economic Integration – CABEI in its US$500 million notes offering
  • The underwriters in SEC registered bond offerings for the Peru
  • The underwriters in an SEC registered bond offering for Uruguay
  • JPMorgan and Merrill Lynch & Co. as joint global coordinators and international bookrunners in connection with an initial public offering in Argentina and a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of Class B shares and Class B shares in the form of global depositary shares of Empresa Distribuidora Eléctrica Regional S.A. (EMDERSA)
  • Socovesa S.A. in connection with a US$161 million Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of its American depositary shares. The Company also completed an initial public offering of its shares in Chile as part of the global offering
  • Goldman Sachs International and Credit Suisse as joint global coordinators and international bookrunners in connection with an initial public offering in Argentina and the United Kingdom and a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of Class B common shares and global depositary shares of Grupo Clarín S.A.
  • Intergroup Financial Services Corp., the holding company for Interbank and Interseguros in Peru, in its IPO of common stock
  • Morgan Stanley in the Panama Canal Railway Company’s offering of senior secured notes
  • Citigroup and Deutsche Bank in the Colombian Peso-Denominated Notes offering of Bogotá Districto Capital
  • Hidroeléctrica Piedra del Aguila S.A. in connection with a Rule 144A/Regulation S US$100 million note offering to refinance debt incurred in connection with its 2004 restructuring
  • Citigroup as dealer manager, solicitation agent and initial purchaser in a series of transactions to refinance restructuring debt issued by Autopistas del Sol S.A. – Ausol
  • Merrill Lynch as underwriter of the common stock of LAN S.A., the Chilean-based airline, under a shelf registration statement
  • Citigroup and Deutsche Bank as dealer managers for the Republic of Peru’s exchange offer
  • Banco Macro in its registered initial public offering in the United States and NYSE listing and additional offerings of Tier 1 debt and senior notes
  • Credit Suisse and Accival in the IPO of Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico – GAP through a registered public offering and NYSE listing, to privatize the 85% of the company the Mexican government still owned and Citigroup and Accival in the IPO of Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte – OMA through a registered public offering and NASDAQ listing, to privatize the remaining portion of the company owned by the Mexican government
  • Itabo Finance Ltd. in its offering of high yield notes for its power plant in the Dominican Republic
  • Deutsche Banc Securities in the high yield note offering of Sidetur Finance S.A., guaranteed by Sidetur S.A., a steel company in Venezuela
  • Citigroup as initial purchaser of notes of the Province of Neuquén in Argentina secured by hydrocarbon royalties of the province
  • SQM, the Chilean mining company, and Pampa Calichera, its holding company, in their respective offerings of senior notes under Rule 144A and Regulation S
  • Designated underwriters’ counsel for the Republic of Uruguay
  • The underwriters in the Rule 144A/Regulation S ADR IPO of Inversiones Aguas Metropolitanas – IAM, the Santiago, Chile water and sanitation company
  • AES Dominicana in its offering of high yield notes to refinance the project financings of its power plants in the Dominican Republic
  • Citigroup and JP Morgan as financial advisors to the Republic of Iraq in its ongoing restructuring of its Saddam-era commercial debt
  • The dealer manager in the restructuring of the public bond indebtedness of the Province of Buenos Aires and the initial purchasers in subsequent offerings of notes of the Province of Buenos Aires
  • Macquarie Infrastructure Company Trust, a Delaware trust, in its $600 million IPO of trust stock and follow-on primary equity offerings


Selected Professional & Business Activities
  • Chair, Committee for the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives, New York City Bar Association
  • Board Member, Council of the Americas


Firm Committees
  • Pro Bono Committee
  • Opinion Committee


Bar Admissions/Qualifications
New York


Languages
Spanish