Category: M&A

Some of Latin America’s biggest and best companies have built outstanding in-house M&A teams. So why do they still hire investment bankers?

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JP Morgan decisively pulled ahead of the competition in Latin America last year, with a dominant market share in bond and equity issuance, and mergers and acquisitions mandates, the key […]

Latin American investors are buying up companies left behind by retreating multinationals. More local investors are getting ready to hit the acquisition trail soon.

Bancolombia became Colombia’s largest bank when it was created in 1998 following the merger of BIC and the troubled Banco de Colombia. But Bancolombia has struggled to turn a decent […]

Citigroup shocked bankers in Mexico and throughout Latin America when it announced its $12.82 billion acquisition of Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival SA (Banacci) in May 2001. In one fell swoop the […]

Nicolás Aguzín, head of mergers and acquisitions in Latin America for JP Morgan, has seen the M&A business in Latin America come full circle. When he began working as an […]

Mergers and acquisitions in Latin America are agreed deals by necessity because few companies have enough shares in the public markets to allow for hostile bids. Electricidad de Caracas, the […]

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.