Santiago Barraza

Primary Focus & Experience

Santiago focuses on international capital markets and finance transactions with a particular emphasis on high yield bonds, acquisition financing and equity offerings. He has advised and represented corporate issuers, sponsors, underwriters and initial purchasers in a wide range of matters, including high yield, investment grade, convertible and sovereign bond offerings, acquisition financings/LBOs, registered and unregistered equity offerings, liability management exercises, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, private financing transactions, general corporate matters and listed company compliance.

Fluent in Spanish.

Relevant experience includes advising:

• Lar España, a leading Spanish real estate developer and property asset manager, on two green bond issuances this year: its €400M Senior Unsecured Green Bond Offering and related tender offer and with its €300M Senior Unsecured Green Bond Offering.
• The dealers, led by NatWest Markets Securities Inc., in connection with NatWest Markets Plc’s offering of $1 billion 3.479% Senior Notes due 2025 and $500 million Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2025 under NatWest Markets’ $10,000,000,000 US Medium-Term Note Programme. The dealers also included J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, TD Securities (USA) LLC and CIBC World Markets Corp.
• The dealers in connection with the issuance of US$500 million 3.750% Notes due 2032 by The Israel Electric Corporation Limited (“IEC”). IEC is the largest supplier of electrical power in Israel. The State of Israel holds 99.85% of IEC’s shares.