Two S&C matters earned top honors at the IFLR Americas Awards. Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern won M&A Deal of the Year and Belize’s debt conversion to fund ocean and marine life conservation won Debt and Equity-Linked Deal of the Year. Frank Aquila and Andrew Gerlach led the S&C team advising Canadian Pacific on its acquisition of Kansas City Southern, which will create the first rail network connecting the United States, Mexico and Canada. Werner Ahlers, Jim Bromley and Inosi Nyatta led the S&C team advising the government of Belize, which became the first country in the Americas to complete a debt conversion that will fund ocean and marine life conservation.