
NEW YORK, January 31, 2025 — At the LatinFinance 2024 Deals of the Year Awards gala, São Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas received an award. He accepted on behalf of the government of Brazil’s largest state for the groundbreaking privatization of Sabesp, the São Paulo sanitation company, a key achievement of his administration.
De Freitas received the award for the $2.7 billion transaction at a ceremony attended by over 300 CEOs, CFOs, and government officials from across the region, as well as financiers, investors, and advisors involved in significant Latin American and Caribbean transactions of the previous year. The event took place in New York.
The awards followed the 2025 LatAm Capital Market Summit, a series of discussions at the New York Stock Exchange led by LatinFinance’s editors, focusing on capital raising and investment trends in the region.
Selected NYSE-listed Deal of the Year winners joined LatinFinance in ringing the NYSE Opening Bell to celebrate, commence trading, and launch the LatAm Capital Markets Summit.
LatinFinance editors independently selected the winners after a comprehensive judging process involving a record number of submissions.
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Winning deals and institutions
Multilateral Development Bank of the Year – IDB Invest
Sustainable Finance Bank of the Year – BNP Paribas
Upcoming award nominations
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