Topic: Start-up companies

Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP in Silicon Valley and San Francisco has helped Chilean financial technology start-up Xepelin raise US$80 million in a financing round led by US investor Community Investment Management (CIM), less than a year after its previous investment.

04 February 2022

Brazilian customer experience communications platform Zenvia has enlisted Bronstein, Zilberberg, Chueiri & Potenza Advogados to acquire customer service and service desk software Movidesk for 400 million reais (US$70 million).

20 January 2022

Holland & Knight LLP in Miami and Philadelphia has helped Japanese investor SoftBank inject US$127 million into Brazilian healthcare start-up Alice.

19 January 2022

Global digital finance business Blockchain.com is on track to become Latin America’s largest cryptocurrency platform after the buyer enlisted Marval O'Farrell Mairal in Buenos Aires and Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados in Lima for its acquisition of Argentine counterpart SeSocio.

14 January 2022

Argentine agrifintech Agrofy has hired local firm Zang, Bergel & Viñes Abogados to obtain a US$30 million investment led by Norwegian chemical company Yara International.

12 January 2022

Brazilian online payments company Ebanx has enlisted BMA - Barbosa, Müssnich, Aragão and Pinheiro Neto Advogados to acquire local transfer company Remessa Online for US$229 million.

07 January 2022

Carey has helped Chilean electromobility company E-Mov obtain its first equity financing round from Grupo Orange.

06 January 2022

Brazilian firm Machado Meyer Advogados has helped local banking institution Itaú implement an investment programme worth 750 million reais (US$134 million) and make its first investments through the scheme.

16 December 2021

Galicia Abogados in Mexico City and Maples Group in the Cayman Islands have advised Brazilian fintech Dock in its purchase of Mexican card processing solution provider Cacao, marking the buyer’s first acquisition outside its home country.

15 December 2021

Brazilian education technology company Arco has hired Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in São Paulo and New York to issue US$150 million worth of convertible notes.

13 December 2021