Such acquisition was carried out in a private auction held in the context of debt enforcement and foreclosure against secured assets. We assisted a renowned Brazilian financial advisor with notable expertise in the local distressed assets market in the structuring and acquisition for third party foreign investors of control over a data center and information technology company appraised at more than R$ 1 billion as recently as 2014. We assisted Notre Dame Intermédica Saúde S.A., one of Brazil’s largest vertically integrated hospital and health insurance operators, controlled by private equity giant Bain Capital, in the acquisition of 100% equity interest in Cruzeiro do Sul group, comprising a local health plan operator, a hospital and a clinical laboratory. We worked on the negotiation and drafting of all contractual and corporate documentation, as well as on the analysis of various issues related to judicial reorganization and tax matters. The transaction represented one of the first and rare successful cases in the acquisition of stressed assets and granting of financing for companies in judicial reorganization in Brazil.
Our work consists of an extensive analysis of complex regulatory issues, the negotiation and preparation of all corporate and contractual documentation involved, and assistance in conducting proceedings with Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil) (CVM) and Banco Central do Brasil (Central Bank of Brazil) (BACEN), in order to obtain the operating licenses for the relevant entities.Īcquisition of the controlling stake and debt restructuring of distressed group of companiesĪssistance to a renowned financial consulting firm, which focuses on companies in distress, in the structuring for investors of a corporate acquisition and debt refinancing of a conglomerate in the agricultural sector that was in the process of a judicial reorganization. Structuring of a new stock exchange in BrazilĪdvise to a joint venture, made up of one of the largest stock exchanges in the world and a relevant Brazilian financial investment group, in the structuring of a new stock exchange and a new clearing and settlement house in Brazil. We also assisted in the subsequent refinancing of the transaction, by structuring guarantees and providing legal advice in issues related to Brazilian legislation. We assisted, in coordination with a renowned international law firm, a syndicate of Japanese banks in the financing of a relevant Japanese corporate group – in the amount of approximately US$ 150 million – for the acquisition of various assets in the automobile industry owned by a European conglomerate.
International structured financing and refinancing transactions We assisted, as Brazilian attorneys in coordination with a renowned international law firm, COFCO, a Chinese state-owned company and largest supplier of agricultural and food products and services in China, in two transactions for the multibillion dollar acquisitions of controlling equity interests in Noble Agri Limited, a company belonging to the Noble group from Hong Kong, and Nidera, an agricultural commodities global trading company with headquarters in the Netherlands. Cross-border transactions for the acquisitions of controlling stake
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