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Colombia Equity
Colombia’s Grupo Aval has opened the subscription period for an equity follow-on targeting COP2.41trn ($1.25bn), according to regulatory documents. The financial group is...
Venezuela M&A
Harvest Natural Resources has agreed to sell its 32% Venezuela’s Petrodelta in Venezuela to Argentina’s Petroandina for a total of $400m, it says. In the two-step deal co...
Brazil Corporate & Sovereign Strategy
Lupatech has received “manifestation of positive support” for its restructuring plan from a bondholder group, it says. The group represents 22.4% of the struggling oil pa...
Funds
Private equity investors are expected to commit more than $3.5bn, a record amount, to infrastructure-related deals in Latin America in 2013, according to Latin American P...
Fitch has upgraded Minerva to BB minus from B+, it says, based on an improving credit profile and a strengthening in the Brazilian beef sector. The transaction agreed las...
Mexico Loans
Pemex has closed a $1.25bn 3-year revolver, with 16 banks joining the six leads, according to people familiar with the terms. Bookrunners Citi, Credit Agricole, HSBC, Miz...
Mexico Bonds
OHL Mexico’s Concesionaria Mexiquense (Conmex) road concession has priced MXP18.78bn-equivalent ($1.45bn) in inflation-linked international bonds through a private placem...
Chile People
SMU approved the appointment of controller Alvaro Saieh as president, the Chilean supermarket operator says, a move aimed at bolstering investor confidence. The billionai...
Brazil Bonds
Vale has joined the growing group of high-quality Brazilian issuers taking advantage of the country’s infrastructure debenture legislation, and was scheduled to begin mee...
Venezuela Corporate & Sovereign Strategy
Venezuela has seen another rating downgrade, this time to Caa1 from B2 by Moody’s. “Venezuela is facing increasingly unsustainable macroeconomic imbalances, including a s...
Argentina Bonds
Argentina’s YPF has sold $500m in 5-year bonds, upsizing from $300m its second international bond deal since nationalization, thanks to about $2bn demand. The government-...