"I believe that Miranda has the best clients in the banking industry," says one competitor referring to Miranda & Amado, a firm known by the competition for its strong banking and capital markets practice. "A good firm in all areas....
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"I believe that Miranda has the best clients in the banking industry," says one competitor referring to Miranda & Amado, a firm known by the competition for its strong banking and capital markets practice. "A good firm in all areas...but banking is their strongest," another peer comments. The firm recently advised Citibank, RBS, and the Bank of Nova Scotia in a $150 million secured syndicate loan agreement granted to Gold Fields de Lima in order to develop a mining project.
"They are good on the transactional side, and also good on the regulatory side," one practitioner notes. And clients value the firm's "excellent quality of service" while citing the "professionally outstanding" trio of partners, Roberto MacLean, Luis Miranda, and Luis Vinatea, as being particularly impressive.
Although the market may know Miranda more for financial services, the firm's M&A practice was involved in one of the more publicised mergers last year. Leading lawyer Luis Miranda is helming a team advising the Colombia Stock Exchange as it seeks to merge with the Lima Stock Exchange, forming a more competitive regional entity.
In other M&A activity, the firm assisted Ashmore Engery International with two separate sales in excess of $4 billion. Asmore's 38% stake in Luz del Sur, a massive Peruvian electricity distributor, was sold to Sempra, and a 60% stake of Calidda was sold to Energía de Bogotá. Additionally, the firm helped Iberia with their Peruvian branch as the Spanish airline carrier merged with British Airways.
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