Category: 2014 July / August

A focus on its staff and an institutionalized hedging policy help Brazil’s best managed company avoid peaks and troughs in a volatile industry

A market return by Ecuador and a series of maneuvers by
Argentina dominated debt markets in the second quarter.
By Eduardo García

Growth, efficiency, and high margins see Copa’s corporate management fly high above rivals

Mexicans are taking advantage of investors’ improving
view on LatAm equities, but issuers must still proceed with caution.
By Katie Llanos-Small

Arca Continental’s drive to double its size by 2017 and its success consolidating and streamlining its operations have made the Coca-Cola bottler a fitting choice for the LatinFinance award for Best Managed Corporate in Mexico

After a slew of large corporate loans, deals for smaller,
lower-rated borrowers are coming through.
By Karen Schwartz

Taking refinancing chances when they arise has kept debt costs under control amid hefty acquisitions

Acquisitions involving ex-LatAm buyers and targets
have picked up, but intra-regional activity has slowed.
By Katie Llanos-Small

Cartica Capital’s case against Chile’s CorpBanca has been perhaps the most prominent incident of vocal shareholder activism in Latin America — largely as it involves Latin America’s biggest private-sector bank. […]

Brazilian telecoms firm Oi and Portugal Telecom, which had been in a strategic alliance since 2010, agreed to merge in October 2013. PT’s shareholders would end up with 38% of […]