Latham & Watkins represented Latin American development bank CAF’s $2 billion offer – CAF’s largest US dollar-denominated transaction to date. Here CAF’s headquarters in Caracas. (Photo: CAF)
Roderick Branch, Latham & Watkins; Juan Giráldez, Cleary Gottlieb and Alberto Haito, Clifford Chance. (Latinvex collage)
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Latham & Watkins Advises $2 Bln CAF Bond Financing
Cleary Gottlieb, Clifford Chance advise Argentine, Colombia finance work.
BY LATINVEX STAFF
Latham & Watkins represented Latin American development bank CAF’s $2 billion offer – CAF’s largest US dollar-denominated transaction to date; Cleary Gottlieb represented Argentine state oil company YPF in a $400 million term loan facility with Itaú Unibanco and Clifford Chance advised Colombian bank Banco de Occidente in connection with its $150 million subordinated facility provided by Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG).
Keywords: Argentina, Brazil, Cleary Gottlieb, Clifford Chance, Colombia, Finance, Latham & Watkins












