Mattos Filho in the media

Several firms have helped Colombian oil giant Ecopetrol secure a US$1.2 billion acquisition financing, which it used to fund its May purchase of a stake in Brazil’s Brava Energia and to launch a 2.7 billion reais (US$521 million) tender offer to snap up further shares in the company.

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US food producer Tyson Foods has called on Mattos Filho to divest its stake in Brazilian poultry producer Vibra Foods to the company’s shareholders, Agrogen Desenvolvimento Genético, in a deal that ends a six-year joint venture between the two companies.

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Canadian gold mining company Amapá Minerals Holdings, which has operations in Brazil, has relied on Milbank in São Paulo, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Vancouver and Brazil’s Mattos Filho to launch a 132.8 million Canadian dollar (US$95 million) initial public offering (IPO) on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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Mattos Filho has advised Japan-owned Sompo Seguros on its acquisition of Brazilian insurer Fator Seguradora from Banco Fator.

Brazilian sugar and ethanol group Raízen has secured court approval of its multibillion-dollar extrajudicial restructuring after winning the support of more than 81% of creditors holding claims worth almost US$13 billion.

Mattos Filho has advised Brazilian insurance and healthcare benefits company Qualicorp on its acquisition of the remaining minority stakes in counterparts Plural and Oxcorp.
Latin Lawyer understands that BMA Advogados advised the minority shareholders, but could not confirm this before publication.
The transaction closed on 2 July for a confidential amount.
The buyer acquired all of the equity interests held by the minority shareholders of Plural and Oxcorp and now owns, directly and indirectly, 100% of the share capital of both companies.

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Santander’s move to acquire the roughly 10% stake in its Brazilian subsidiary that it does not already own is the latest sign that foreign multinationals are rethinking the value of keeping their Brazilian operations listed on B3. Companies including Iberdrola—the parent of Neoenergia—, Portugal’s EDP, and France’s Carrefour have taken their local subsidiaries private in recent years. Valor learned that other multinationals are also evaluating takeover bids to acquire minority-held shares in their Brazilian subsidiaries.

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Santos Neto Advogados has helped Amaggi Louis Dreyfus Zen-Noh Grãos (ALZ Grãos) acquire a soybean crushing unit in the Brazilian state of Tocantins from local agribusiness company Fazendão Indústria e Comércio de Produtos Agropecuários.

Mattos Filho advised Fazendão on the sale.

US aluminium producer Alcoa has enlisted two Ashurst offices and Pinheiro Neto Advogados for the Brazilian aspects of its US$4.1 billion acquisition of Australian mining company South32’s global aluminium value chain assets, which include stakes in Brazilian mining and refining operations.

Demarest Advogados in São Paulo also advised Alcoa on competition matters before Brazilian antitrust authority CADE.

South32 relied on four Mallesons offices and Brazilian outfit Mattos Filho.

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The growing volume of court-supervised and out-of-court reorganizations has triggered an intense game of musical chairs in Brazil’s legal market. Experienced lawyers are being courted by large firms to lead restructuring teams. Meanwhile, professionals with years of experience at established firms have left traditional practices to bet on specialized boutiques and explore new niches such as agribusiness.

Click here to read the article published at Valor International