Topic: Initial public offerings

Real estate company Vesta’s US$445 million listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in July has sparked confidence that there is still life for Mexican IPOs, despite a global slump. But opinion is divided among local and international law firms when it comes to determining whether Mexican IPOs are on the verge of blossoming or withering away.

11 September 2023

Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC, Nader, Hayaux & Goebel and Greenberg Traurig SC have helped Mexican investor Fibra Infraestructura y Energía México set up a Fibra E infrastructure trust and launch a 6.6 billion pesos (US$364 million) IPO.

26 April 2023

Morgan & Morgan has helped Panama’s Green Tower Properties convert into a real estate investment trust (REIT) and make an initial public offering (IPO).

26 April 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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