Topic: Cross-border M&A

Two Mattos Filho offices have helped UK investor Actis purchase transmission assets from the Brazilian utilities subsidiary of Energias de Portugal (EDP) - EDP Brasil - in a deal worth 2.7 billion reais (US$540 million).

28 November 2023

Bruchou & Funes de Rioja has helped Proener – the subsidiary of Argentine electricity producer Central Puerto – acquire solar energy assets from Norwegian energy counterparts Scatec and Equinor.

27 November 2023

Listen to Latin Lawyer’s M&A roundtable to hear about some of the latest developments in Latin America’s complex M&A landscape from some of the region’s leading practitioners.

24 November 2023

Five Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton offices and Trench Rossi Watanabe in São Paulo have helped Brazilian cosmetics company Natura divest UK beauty brand The Body Shop to European investment group Aurelius for US$254 million.

24 November 2023

Pinheiro Neto Advogados has helped Canada’s Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ) acquire a set of power assets from the transmission subsidiary of local utilities company Equatorial Energia for 396 million reais (US$144 million).

22 November 2023

Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados has helped a BlackRock-owned investment fund, Climate Finance Partnership (CFP), acquire shares in Brazilian energy transition company Brasol.

21 November 2023

Facio & Cañas has helped the coffee division of Latin American-focused investor BIA Foods acquire Costa Rican coffee producer Café Rey.

21 November 2023

Advisers from Brazilian bank BTG Pactual, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and UK investor Actis have been added to the line-up of speakers expected to attend Latin Lawyer’s M&A conference in São Paulo next month, alongside the president of Brazil’s securities commission CVM – João Pedro Barroso do Nascimento – who will keynote the event.

20 November 2023

Four Baker Botts LLP offices have advised telecoms company Liberty Latin America in its divestment of a portfolio of tower sites to US counterpart Phoenix Tower International, including operations in Panama, as well as its purchase of a set of spectrum assets in Puerto Rico.

17 November 2023

Brazilian banking giant Banco Itaú has enlisted Guyer & Regules to acquire shares in Uruguayan fintech Handy.

17 November 2023