Category: M&A

Two of Panama’s biggest banks are merging to form the largest bank in Central America. Primer Grupo Nacional is to merge with Banco del Istmoto form a business with assets […]

        The size and quantity of mergers and acquisitions in Latin America over the past decade surged in the late, driven by Brazil’s telecom privatizations in 1998 […]

AT&T, which is consolidating recent acquisitions in Latin America, has named Carlos Antonio da Costa Andri as chief executive officer of its Brazilian operations. AT&T recently bought Brazilian carrier Netstream […]

US cellular operator Sprint PCS is paying $200 million to enter the Mexican market through a stake in wireless operator Pegaso PCS SA. The acquisition will give Sprint PCS access […]

Despite international investors’ uncertainty over emerging markets, mergers and acquisitions in Latin America were valued at a whopping $84.6 billion last year, more than doubling the $35.4 billion invested in […]

While M&A activity in Latin America is booming, many marriages between companies have failed. Consulting firms are stepping in to help.

The ink was still drying on the merger agreement between Spanish banks Santander and Central Hispano when Ana Patricia Botin, head of wholesale banking at Santander and the force behind […]

Brazil is not known for its affinity for consolidated corporate control. So the recent bevy of mergers and acquisitions there has come as a surprise to many Brazilians who had […]