Argentina’s Capex completes bond exchange

Argentine energy company Capex has successfully concluded an exchange offer of its 6.875% notes due for newly issued 9.250% notes due August 25, 2028.

Posted jeudi, septembre 7 2023
Argentina’s Capex completes bond exchange

Capex concluded the exchange offer with a total participation of $197.39 million in aggregate principal amount of notes, representing 82.65% of the aggregate principal amount of notes outstanding.

Capex is engaged in oil and gas exploration and production, production of liquified gas products, in addition to thermal and renewable power generation and hydrogen production.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Santander US Capital Markets LLC acted as dealer and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Argentina) S.A.U., Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A.U., Banco Santander Argentina S.A. and Banco CMF S.A. acted as local placement agents.

Argentine law firm Bruchou & Funes de Rioja acted as local legal counsel to the dealer managers and the local placement agents with a team led by partner Alejandro G. Perelsztein and associates Leandro Belusci, Josefina Mortola Saiach and Sofia Maselli.

Salaverri, Burgio & Wetzler Malbrán acted as local legal counsel to Capex, with a team led by partner Roberto Lizondo and associates Josefina Ryberg, Natalia Ostropolsky, Delfina Meccia, Santiago Linares Luque and Jorge Chiro Tarrab.

Linklaters LLP acted as New York legal counsel to Capex with a team led by partner Conrado Tenaglia, counsel Alejandro Gordano and associates Madeleine Blehaut, Juan Mata, Monica Perez-Banuet Farell and Mario Lercari.

Capex was also advised by its in-house legal team, led by Norberto Larrosa and Nicolás Buhler, and its in-house financial team led by Matías Salerno, Leonardo D´Alessandro, Gabriela Mercorelli and Claudio Armada.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP acted as New York legal counsel to the dealer managers and the local placement agents, with a team led by partner Juan G, counsel Giráldez Emilio Minvielle and associates Ignacio Lagos and Rodrigo Lopez Lapeña.