Topic: Privatisations

Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown has helped state-owned development bank BNDES structure the privatisation of Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (CBTU), a company that held the concession of the public railway transport in Minas Gerais.

20 January 2023

Demarest Advogados has helped an infrastructure investment fund managed by São Paulo-based private equity group Fram Capital win a bid to maintain the Chapada dos Guimarães national park in Brazil’s western state of Mato Grosso.

16 January 2023

Brazil’s largest privately held sanitation company Aegea has hired Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown to place a 1.4 billion reais (US$264 million) winning bid for the concession of waste treatment services in the northern state of Ceará.

13 January 2023

Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown and Souto Correa Advogados have helped Brazilian sanitation company Aegea place a 4.2 billion reais (US$784 million) winning bid to take control of Companhia Riograndense de Saneamento (Corsan), Rio Grande do Sul’s state-owned sanitation business.

04 January 2023

Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown has helped state-owned development bank BNDES structure the privatisation of state-owned food company Ceasaminas, which plans to auction off its shares and assets for 423 million reais (US$79 million) by the end of the year.

02 December 2022

Featured in The Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions - Third Edition

As the business environment in Latin America continues to evolve and markets become fiercely competitive, it is inevitable that governments increasingly use the sale of public assets or state-owned companies as means to obtain liquidity and successfully exit highly demanding and cash-intensive operations they are no longer able to run efficiently.

02 December 2022

Demarest Advogados and Lefosse have helped two different bidders win concessions to operate Brazilian airports.

01 September 2022

Brazilian firms Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados and Machado Meyer Advogados have helped two separate concessionaires acquire graveyard assets worth 492 million reais (US$96 million) in a public auction held by the city of São Paulo.

30 August 2022

Lefosse has helped Spanish company AENA win the rights to operate São Paulo’s Congonhas airport along with 10 other Brazilian airports following a 2.45 billion reais (US$478 million) bid.

23 August 2022

Machado Meyer Advogados has helped the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul divest its entire stake in government-run power generation company CEEE-G, which is the final entity to be auctioned off in that state’s energy privatisation process.

08 August 2022