Market: Colombia

Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas in Bogotá has helped Aris Gold in the sale of its business to fellow Canadian mining company GCM for US$424 million, a deal that includes the target’s gold mines in Colombia.

02 November 2022

A slew of law firms has helped German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd expand in Latin America by purchasing two subsidiaries of Chilean foreign trade services group SAAM for US$1 billion.

26 October 2022

DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán has helped UK private school group Cognita enter into a strategic alliance with Colombian private school network Redcol, acquiring a majority stake in the Bogotá-based business.

24 October 2022

Latham & Watkins LLP in New York and Colombian firm Gómez-Pinzón have helped three electric bus concessions in Bogotá obtain a US$96 million credit line from French investment bank Natixis, the latest in a string of financings for the expansion of the city’s TransMilenio system.

19 October 2022

Colombian petrol company Biomax has hired Lloreda Camacho & Co to acquire local gas business Grupo EDS Autogas and oil logistics group Fueltrans.

13 October 2022

The Latin American-focused subsidiary of Australian investor Macquarie has called on three Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP offices, DLA Piper LLP in Madrid and Bogotá, and Ecuador’s Bustamante Fabara to structure an airport investment platform with Colombian infrastructure company Odinsa in a deal worth US$142 million.

10 October 2022

DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán has helped Brazilian private equity group Patria Investimentos acquire Colombian healthcare group Clínica Chía.

07 October 2022

Clifford Chance LLP in New York and Mendoza in Bogotá have helped the Colombian municipality of Barranquilla obtain a US$100 million loan to repay funding that it previously obtained for a set of public infrastructure projects.

06 October 2022

Colombian fintech RappiPay has hired Mendoza to obtain a 500 billion pesos (US$112 million) financing from a group of local banks.

05 October 2022

Alpha Latam Management – a lender that operates in Colombia and Mexico – has hired a slew of firms to finalise the Colombian section of its Chapter 11 restructuring, increasing its available capital by US$87 million.

03 October 2022