Category: M&A

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Merger and acquisition volumes in Latin America plunged 75% in 2002. However, it was not a bad year for cross-border deals within the region involving Latin American bidders and targets. […]

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.