Law Business Research Ltd, http://www.lbresearch.com by Thomas Muskett-Ford

Argentine cable television provider Cablevisión has issued notes worth US$500 million, with help from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP’s Buenos Aires and New York offices and Argentina’s Errecondo González y Funes.

Linklaters in New York and Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal in Buenos Aires advised the joint-lead managers and bookrunners, while Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in New York and Tanoira Cassagne Abogados in Buenos Aires counselled the trustee and agents. The local placement agents, Banco Itaú Argentina and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Argentina), also turned to Marval.

The transaction closed on 20 June.

Counsel to Cablevisión

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Partner Andrés de la Cruz, associate Renée Ahlers, international lawyers Eduardo Romero and Mariano Sierra, counsel Scott Douglas Borisky, and associates Kevin Swartz and Anne Xu in New York

Errecondo González y Funes

Partner Facundo Goslino and associates Constanza Martella and Delfina Lynch in Buenos Aires

Counsel to Deutsche Bank, Itaú BBA USA and JP Morgan

Linklaters

Partner Conrado Tenaglia associate Adriana Maestas in New York

Counsel to Deutsche Bank, Itaú BBA USA, JP Morgan, Banco Itaú Argentina and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Argentina)

Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal

Partners Ricardo Beller and Fernando Hernández, and associates María de los Milagros Abelenda and Constanza Soledad Rudi in Buenos Aires

Counsel to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Bank Luxembourg

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Partner Peter Baumgaertner and associate Paulo Varnieri in New York

Tanoira Cassagne Abogados

Partner Alexia Rosenthal and associate Rocio Carrica in Buenos Aires