Practice
Antonia Stolper is head of Shearman & Sterling’s Capital Markets-Americas group and of the firm’s Latin America affinity group. 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 Latin American issuers on their ongoing SEC reporting requirements, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and corporate governance matters. Ms. Stolper has also advised the Climate Bonds Initiative pro bono on establishing standards for financing the transition to a low carbon economy. Ms. Stolper is also active in the Vance Center of the New York City Bar Association, promoting pro bono work by private lawyers in Latin America.

Ms. Stolper is currently ranked Band 1 in Latin America-wide Capital Markets Chambers Latin America and Band 1 in Latin American Investment in Chambers Global.

• BofAMerrill Lynch and Citigroup as initial purchasers in the inaurgural $500 million offering of senior notes of Fondo Mivivienda
• Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan as initial purchasers of Banco Davivienda S.A. $500 million of senior notes
• BNP Paribas and Citigroup as underwriters, tender agents and exchange agents in the Republic of Uruguay’s liability management exercise
• Deutsche Bank and HSBC in two separate offerings for the Republic of Guatemala
• InRetail Peru Corp. in connection with a $400 million Rule 144A/Reg. S initial public international offering of common stock and listed on the Lima Stock Exchange
• Inversiones La Construcción in connection with a US$468 million Rule 144A/Regulation S initial public offering of common stock and listed on the Santiago Stock Exchange
• Banco Internacional del Perú - Interbank in its $250 million reopening of its 5.75% senior notes due 2020
• Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan in the $500 million subordinated debt offering of Banco Davivienda
• Volcan Compañía Minera S.A.A. in its $600 million senior notes offering
• Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo S.A. (COFIDE), the Peruvian development bank, in its debut $400 million senior notes offering and subsequent $100 million reopening
• Citi as initial purchaser of $200 million guaranteed notes of Central American Bottling company
• Citi and HSBC as underwriters of Peru’s $500 million global bond and $500 million Global depositary notes offerings
• CABEI in its $250 million Rule 144A/Reg S takedown off its MTN program
• Intergroup Retail in its $300 million Rule 144A/Reg S offering of high yield notes
• Interproperties in its $180 million offering of Reg S notes
• AES Gener in its tender offer, consent solicitation and offering of investment grade notes
• E.CL S.A. in the offering of investment grade notes and in the sale by CODELCO of its equity stake
• Aguas Andinas S.A. in the sale by CORFO of its equity stake
• Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana S.A. in the offering of investment grade notes
• J.P. Morgan and Santander as initial purchasers of US$200 million senior notes of Arcor S.A.
• Grupo ACP Inversiones y Desarrollo in its offering of notes
• BofA Merrill Lynch and Barclays Capital in the Ps.1,250,000,000,000 offering of Empresas Públicas de Medellin
• AES Dominicana in the US$289 million offering of notes units
• Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley in the Republic of Peru’s US$2.5 billion offering of registered Global Bonds and Rule 144A/Reg S Global Depositary Notes
• Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. in its US$3 billion offering of senior notes and concurrent exchange offer
• Deutsche Bank and Bank of America in the $800 million Rule 144A/Regulation S offering for the Province of Buenos Aires
• Province of Cordoba in its US$400 million Rule 144A/Regulation S debut international offering and subsequent reopening for $196 million
• Citigroup as initial purchaser of Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima’s (IRSA) US$150 million Rule 144A/Regulation S international offering
• Mastellone Hermanos S.A. in its successful out of court restructuring of approximately $220 million of notes and loans
• Banco Internacional del Perú - Interbank in its offering of US$200 million of Tier 1 capital hybrid securities and its $400 million senior note offering
• City of Buenos Aires in its US$475 million dollars of notes off its EMTN Programme
• IFH Peru, Ltd. in its offering of Senior Secured Notes
• Citigroup and JPMorgan as initial purchasers in connection with the US$800 million notes offering of the Republic of El Salvador
• 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 Republic of 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

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

• Pro Bono Committee
• Opinion Committee