Category: M&A

The failure of international investors to thoroughly vet potential partners can have costly consequences. It is more important than ever that corporate acquisitions in Latin America include exacting pre-deal research and analysis.

A devalued currency, heavy dollar debts and plunging equity prices have taken their toll on Brazilian companies. Some are recovering while others have become acquisition targets for the survivors.

Corus’s acquisition of Brazilian steelmaker Companhia
Siderúrgica Nacional slashes the Latin American company’s financing costs and folds it into an investment grade European competitor.

Having learned much from its last acquisition of a Mexican bank, Citigroup appears to have neatly and efficiently woven Banamex into its global franchise.

The merger of Chile’s Banco de Edwards and Banco de Chile is bound to be good for the banks. But minority shareholders worry that Quiñeco, which controls both institutions, has gotten the better of them.