Felipe Duque

Selected experience

• SSMS Plantation Holdings Pte. Ltd. on the offering of US$300 million aggregate principal amount of 7.750% senior notes, unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by its parent company PT Sawit Sumbermas Sarana Tbk.
• The dealer managers and the initial purchasers on two separate liability management exercises and concurrent new issues by Vedanta Resources plc (cash tender offers for any and all of its outstanding 9.50% bonds due 2018 and 6.00% bonds due 2019, with a concurrent Rule 144A offering $1,000 million aggregate principal amount of 6.375% bonds due 2022, and for any and all of its 6.00% bonds due 2019 and 8.25% bonds due 2022, with a concurrent Rule 144A offering of $1,000 million aggregate principal amount of 6.125% bonds due 2024).
• Comunicaciones Celulares, S.A. (Comcel) in connection with the debut Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by Comcel Trust of $800 million aggregate principal amount of its 6.875% senior notes due 2024. Also advised Comcel as the borrower under a credit and guaranty agreement among Comcel, Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch as lender, and the guarantors thereto, under which the lender made a loan to Comcel in the aggregate principal amount of $800 million. Comcel Trust used the proceeds from the offering of the notes to purchase from the lender a 100% participation interest in the loan.
• Fosun International Limited on its US$300 million Rule 144A/Regulation S global offering of senior notes.
• The initial purchasers on a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 7.875% senior notes due 2019 by XPO Logistics, Inc.
• Jefferies LLC as sole book-running manager on a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by Enova International, Inc. of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 9.75% senior notes due 2021.
• The initial purchasers on a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by LTF Merger Sub, Inc. of $450 million aggregate principal amount of its 8.500% senior notes due 2023. The offering was part of the financing for the acquisition of Life Time Fitness, Inc. by affiliates of Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. and TPG Capital, L.P.
• The dealer managers and the initial purchasers on two separate liability management exercises and concurrent new issues by Vedanta Resources plc in H1 2017. The first being abbreviated cash tender offers for any and all of Vedanta's US$750 million 9.50% bonds due 2018 and US$1,200 million 6.00% bonds due 2019, with a concurrent Rule 144A offering by Vedanta of $1,000 million aggregate principal amount of 6.375% bonds due 2022. The second being abbreviated cash tender offers by Vedanta for any and all of its US$774.8 million 6.00% bonds due 2019 and US$900 million 8.25% bonds due 2022, with a concurrent Rule 144A offering by Vedanta of $1,000 million aggregate principal amount of 6.125% bonds due 2024.
• Tata Communications Limited on issuance of S$250 million 4.25% guaranteed notes due 2016.
• The joint lead managers on the issuance of US$300 aggregate principal amount of 4.125% notes due 2022 guaranteed by China Taiping Insurance Holdings Company Limited, an insurance conglomerate incorporated and headquartered in Hong Kong.