Topic: Investment funds

BTG Pactual has turned to TozziniFreire Advogados to launch a positive impact investment fund, which raised 542 million reais (US$104 million) in its first offering.

08 September 2021

Morrison & Foerster LLP in Miami and Pinheiro Neto Advogados in São Paulo have helped SoftBank use its Latin American investment fund to inject US$200 million in Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin.

06 August 2021

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in Madrid, New York and London has helped Spanish gambling company Codere Online combine with a Mexican special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in a US$350 million deal that creates Latin America’s first listed gaming operator.

24 June 2021

Chilean firm Barros & Errázuriz Abogados has helped local real estate network Red Megacentro get a capital increase worth US$105 million by selling shares to a local investment fund.

17 June 2021

Brazilian law firm Pinheiro Neto Advogados has advised all parties in the structuring of two credit rights funds (FIDCs) by Brazil’s largest payment services provider Cielo, as well as in the funds’ first issuances worth a combined US$1 billion.

15 June 2021

Morrison & Foerster LLP in Miami and Los Angeles has helped SoftBank use its Latin American investment fund to inject US$150 million in investment platform Grupo Bursátil Mexicano (GBM) and, through a separate transaction, enter into a joint venture with US flexible office space provider WeWork.

09 June 2021

São Paulo law firm Santos Neto Advogados has helped the former CEO of Itaú Asset Management, Rubens Henriques, agree a 2.5 billion reais (US$500 million) investment from BTG Pactual to finance a new private asset manager in Brazil.

02 June 2021

Japanese financial group SoftBank has hired Morrison & Foerster in Washington, DC, New York and Miami to invest US$150 million in Brazil’s largest medical education company Afya.

14 May 2021

Souza, Mello e Torres has helped Brazilian investment management company XP Investimentos make its first public offering – worth 1.2 billion reais (US$221 million) – on the B3 stock exchange.

05 May 2021

Honorato Delaveau has helped a fund controlled by Chilean investment management company HMC Administradora General de Fondos (HMC-AGF) receive a US$40 million cash injection from IDB Invest and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

28 April 2021