Brazil Asia M&A
China's Lenovo Group has agreed to buy Brazilian electronics maker Digibras, known by its CCE brand, it says, in a transaction valued at BRL300m ($147m). In exchange for ...
Brazil Asia Loans
Sponsors of a Brazil-bound floating production, storage and offload (FPSO) project are close to finalizing a 12-year $1.05bn loan, with closing expected this week, accord...
Bonds Structured Finance Venezuela
Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF) has closed a $113m syndicated loan, it says, done through a group of Asian banks. The 3.5-year bullet loan pays Libor+97.5bp and was a...
Brazil Asia Bonds
Itau has added $125m to the $1.25bn 2022 Tier 2 bond priced on Monday, exercising a greenshoe option during Asian hours. The extra portion saw $800m in demand and boosted...
Mexico Asia M&A
Baja Mining’s Boleo project in Mexico has secured $90m interim financing, it says, from a consortium made up of Korea Resources Corporation, LS-Nikko Copper, Hyundai Hysc...
Banco do Brasil has become the first Latin American bank to tap the Dim Sum bond market, with a small CNH 166m ($26m) transaction. The Brazilian lender priced the 2-year ...
People Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Asia
Deutsche Bank EM debt syndicate director Jacob Gearhart is moving from New York to Singapore to become head of global risk syndicate Asia, according to sources familiar w...
Venezuela Asia M&A
Harvest Natural Resources has agreed to sell its 32% stake in a Venezuelan oil exploration project to Indonesia’s PT Pertamina for $725m, it says. The all-cash sale concl...
Venezuela Asia Europe
Regional development bank CAF has landed bond transactions in Switzerland and Hong Kong. The Andean development bank issued a CHF175m ($180m) 2.5-year floating-rate bond ...
Singapore-based food and agriculture player Olam International has agreed to acquire Brazilian sugar mill Usina Acucareira Passos (UAP) for BRL255 ($129m), it says. It pl...
Colombia Asia M&A
Pacific Rubiales has agreed to purchase up to 10% of an onshore oil project in Papua New Guinea for as much as $345m, it says. The Canadian-Colombian oil company is to pa...
Peru Asia M&A
Peru’s Minsur has agreed to acquire a 70% stake in the Marcobre project from Hong Kong’s CST Mining, for $505m, it says. Marcobre is developing the Mina Justa copper mine...
Venezuela Asia China
Regional development bank CAF has raised HKD400m ($51m) through its first-ever bond sale denominated in Hong Kong dollars. The Venezuela-based lender priced the 2022 bond...
Asia China Bonds
Asian buy-side participation in LatAm debt deals remains meager, but greater efforts are being made to cultivate accounts from Singapore to Tokyo.
Mexico’s Coca-Cola Femsa (KOF) has struck an exclusivity agreement with Coca-Cola to analyze the possible acquisition of a majority stake in Coca-Cola’s bottling operatio...