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Brazil
Brazil’s AmBev has launched a voluntary offer to purchase any or all outstanding shares of its subsidiary Quilmes Industrial not owned by AmBev or other subsidiaries. The...
All eyes will be on the market’s performance in the first two weeks of January, with several of last year’s dropped cross border bond sales ready to go if things are look...
Meanwhile, the Brazilian local bond market is expected to continue to churn out new deals, seemingly unhindered by international market conditions. Power company Coelba p...
Bonds
Mexican retailer Grupo Gigante plans to buy back $237.6m of its 8.75% 2016 senior notes, tendered for in a buyback offer worth $260m. Also last week, Gigante shareholders...
Colombia
In 2008, Colombia plans to issue COP22.6trn in TES, marking an 18% pickup in issuance of the country’s local currency bonds. In 2007, Colombia raised COP19.1trn, which re...
Loans
Retail syndication of a $3.7bn peso-equivalent loan for Mexico’s FARAC toll road concession is moving along slowly with little fanfare. Some MLAs want to reduce and are a...
Asia
Mizuho is looking to take LatAm corporates and financial borrowers to the Japanese syndicated loan market. The idea is to match increasing appetite from Japanese lenders ...
Brazil’s development bank BNDES has approved a BRL2.6bn loan to the Usina Hidreletrica Estreito, a hydro project in the state of Tocantins being run by a consortium of in...
Argentina
Houston-based Noble Energy agreed to sell its interest in the El Tordillo, La Tapera, and Puesto Quiroga concessions in southern Argentina to a unit of Petrobras for $117...
Moody's has upgraded Loma Negra's global local currency corporate family rating to Ba3 (stable) from B2, while confirming its Ba3 global local currency rating and Aa2.ar ...
HSBC has appointed LatAm veteran Gerardo Mato to head of financing and advisory for the emerging markets. He will run advisory, equity and DCM in EM, while also leading t...
Mexico
Moody's has downgraded GMAC Mexicana SOFOL's local long- term debt rating to A3 from A1, and GMAC Financiera SOFOL's to A3 from A1, it said. The action followed the agen...
People Corporate & Sovereign Strategy
The Bovespa wants to attract more business from non-Brazilian issuers, Gilberto Mifano, the exchange’s CEO, tells LatinFinance. The exchange, which this year went public ...
Funds
Flows into LatAm equity surged in 2007, led by a dramatic pickup in allocations to Brazil funds in 2007, according to EPFR. LatAm saw inflows of $10.2bn in the year, comp...
Brazil's AmBev has launched a voluntary offer to purchase any or all outstanding shares of its subsidiary Quilmes Industrial not owned by AmBev or other subsidiaries. The...
Brazil's development bank BNDES has approved a BRL2.6bn loan to the Usina Hidreletrica Estreito, a hydro project in the state of Tocantins being run by a consortium of in...
The Bovespa wants to attract more business from non-Brazilian issuers, Gilberto Mifano, the exchange's CEO, tells LatinFinance. The exchange, which this year went public ...
Flows into LatAm equity surged in 2007, led by a dramatic pickup in allocations to Brazil funds, according to EPFR. LatAm saw inflows of $10.2bn in the year, compared to ...
In 2008, Colombia plans to issue COP22.6trn in TES, marking an 18% pickup in issuance of the country's local currency bonds. In 2007, Colombia raised COP19.1trn, which re...
All eyes will be on the market's performance in the first two weeks of January, with several of last year's dropped cross border bond sales ready to go if things are look...
Retail syndication of a $3.7bn peso-equivalent loan for Mexico's FARAC toll road concession is moving along slowly with little fanfare. Some MLAs want to reduce and are a...