Topic: Initial public offerings

Seacrest Petroleo raises US$260 million with IPO

Mattos Filho in São Paulo and Norwegian firm Wikborg Rein have helped the Brazilian subsidiary of multinational private equity manager Seacrest raise US$260 million through an initial public offering on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

06 March 2023

AgroFibra goes public in rare Mexican IPO

Mexican agriculture-focused investment fund AgroFibra has hired Holland & Knight (Mexico) to make its 977 million pesos (US$49 million) initial public offering on the local stock exchange.

06 January 2023

Chilean robotics company goes public in IPO

Barros & Errázuriz Abogados has helped Chilean robotics group Osoji become a publicly listed company, the first initial public offering on the Santiago stock exchange since 2019.

27 October 2022

Carey shines in Tianqi’s Hong Kong IPO

Latham & Watkins LLP in Hong Kong and Carey in Santiago have helped Chinese lithium company Tianqi – a shareholder in Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) – raise US$2 billion in an initial public offering, the largest in Hong Kong so far this year.

08 August 2022

Several firms in Mexican Fibra E IPO and acquisition

Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, SC has helped Promotora MexPac set up an energy and infrastructure investment trust and make its initial public offering worth 1.5 billion pesos (US$74 million), marking the first Mexican Fibra E structuring of the year.

18 July 2022

PAG nabs Marval partner and ex-Norton Rose lawyer in double hire

US firm PAG Law has strengthened its venture capital offering in Latin America by adding a partner from Argentine Elite firm Marval O'Farrell Mairal and a former Norton Rose Fulbright partner to its senior rank.

27 April 2022

Which law firms were the most popular in 2021?

As companies weathered the ongoing economic and social aftershocks offset by the covid-19 pandemic, they relied on external counsel to guide them through the uncertainties of 2021. The latest Who Represents Latin America’s Biggest Companies? research, a study published by Latin Lawyer’s affiliate publication LACCA, reveals the most popular law firms among the region’s largest corporations.

21 April 2022

Squire Patton Boggs steers first Dominican IPO

Squire Patton Boggs Peña Prieto Gamundi in Santo Domingo has helped Dominican retailer César Iglesias make the first initial public offering on the country's stock exchange.

19 April 2022

Which law firms were the most popular in 2021?

Featured in Who represents Latin America's biggest companies 2021?

The boom of innovative transactions in 2021, such as IPOs and hybrid bond issuances, ensured that leading Latin American companies kept their external advisers on hand as they waded through an increasingly complex raft of legal matters.

11 April 2022

Patria-backed SPAC plans LatAm merger after IPO

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and Washington, DC has helped a Patria Investimentos-sponsored special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) raise US$230 million in an initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

18 March 2022

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