Finance Monthly Deal Maker Awards 2015 Edition

69 www.finance-monthly.com DEAL MAKER OF THE YEAR - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Meliá Group’s US$100 million bond issuance Chosen for their involvement in the following transaction: About Mariangela Pellerano Mariangela Pellerano has over 12 years of experience and became partner in 2012. Her areas of practice include project finance, international direct investment, and mergers and acquisitions. She has vast experience counseling foreign companies and multinationals and companies in highly regulatedindustriessuchasintheenergy and mining sectors, including, among her most representative transactions, assistance to the largest gold producer in the world in the installation of mining project in the Dominican Republic valued at almost US$3 billion and the US$1 billion syndicated facility for the development of such project, which was recognized by IFLR as Deal of the Year in 2010. Mariangela regularly assists local and foreign banks andmultilateral institutions in syndicated and private equity investments. She counselled the underwriters in connection with the issuance of sovereign bonds, most recently including an issuance of US$ 2.5 billion, the largest such issuance to date in the history of the Dominican Republic. Mariangela graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Santo Domingo and received a Master of Laws (LLM) from the Georgetown University Law Center. Email: m.pellerano@phlaw.com Transaction Repor t Pellerano & Herrera counselled Grupo Popular in a US$100 million corporate bond issuance of Desarrollos Sol, local subsidiary of renowned hotel group, Meliá Group in the local stock market. The funds of such issuance, which was approved on March 3, 2015, by the National Securities Counsel of the Dominican Republic, will support Meliá Group’s investment programs in the country. This is the first bond issuance in the hospitality sector of the Dominican Republic, the first issuance in the local stock market which is secured by a trust, and the first issuance in US dollars by Meliá Group outside Europe. The issuance is guaranteed by a collateral trust that is managed by Fiduciaria Popular, subsidiary of Grupo Popular, and will also have a joint guarantee of Meliá Hotels International, company of Meliá Group. The trust’s assets consist of real estate property and bank accounts. The team of Pellerano & Herrera, led by partner Mariangela Pellerano, advised Grupo Popular in the structuring of the issuance. The firm maintains its position as a promoter of foreign investment in the country and as a counsel of the most important transactions in the country WINNER: 10 John F. Kennedy Avenue, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Tel. 1 (809) 541-5200 | Website: www.phlaw.com