Mexico-focused private equity fund manager EMX Capital has invested in Mexico-based information and communications technology service provider Orben Communications through a convertible debt structure. EMX Capital made its investment through EMX Capital I. Orben plans to use the new funds to strengthen its services in data security. Financial details of… Read More
Real estate fund manager TC Latin America Partners has reached a final close for Terranum Capital Latin America Real Estate Fund II with US$268 million in commitments. Investors in the fund include pension funds and insurance companies in Colombia, Peru, the United States, the Middle East and Europe. The fund… Read More
Energy and power-focused private investment firm Riverstone Holdings has agreed to an initial line-of-equity investment of US$150 million in newly-established Mexico-based energy infrastructure platform Avant Energy. Riverstone’s initial investment may increase to US$300 million once its initial commitment has been invested. Avant Energy will focus on the development, construction and… Read More
Mexico-focused private equity firm Nexxus Capital and Spain-focused private equity firm MCH Private Equity have agreed to invest in Spain-based Pumping Team Holding, a concrete pumping services company with operations in Mexico and Spain. Nexxus will invest through Nexxus Capital Private Equity Fund VI, while MCH will invest through MCH… Read More
Brookfield Asset Management and France-based industrial services and solutions company Suez have agreed to acquire Peru-based water infrastructure concessions H2Olmos and Concesionaria Trasvase Olmos from Odebrecht Latininvest, a subsidiary of Brazil-based engineering group Odebrecht. Both concessions form part of the Olmos project, which consists of a trans-Andean water transfer tunnel… Read More
The Abraaj Group was selected as a finalist in the EMPEA Institute’s 2016 Sustainability & Operational Excellence Challenge for its active management of Koba, a hard discount retailer in Colombia. Impact Highlights: Koba, the first hard discount retailer in Colombia, offers high quality food and basic staples at… Read More
South America-focused private equity fund manager Victoria Capital Partners (VCP) has led a US$100 million capital increase for Argentina-based agribusiness and investment company Grupo Los Grobo. University of Texas Investment Management Company and development finance institutions International Finance Corporation and FMO also participated in the capital increase. Simultaneously, VCP has… Read More
Private equity and investment banking firm PC Capital Management and Creation Investments Capital Management, an investment management firm with a focus on financial services, have made a follow-on investment in Mexico-based Te Creemos. The new financing will be used to support Te Creemos’s acquisition of a 100 percent stake in… Read More
FIR Capital BZPlan, a partnership between Brazil-focused private equity firms FIR Capital Partners and BZPlan, has partially exited Myreks, a Brazil-based online platform for recommending e-commerce products, through the sale of a 10 percent stake. The transaction was part of a larger deal in which Brazil-based corporate management solutions developer… Read More
American Capital Energy & Infrastructure (ACEI) has exited all of its energy investments, which comprise holdings in four companies: Nigeria-based Azura Power Holdings, Senegal-based Taiba Ndiaye Wind Project, Jamaica-based BMR Energy and Indonesia-based Ankora Hydro. Global growth markets investor Actis acquired ACEI’s stake in Azura, and Actis’s portfolio company Lekela… Read More
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