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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.

Click here to access the deal published by Latin Lawyer.

Machado Meyer Advogados has helped two Patria-managed funds acquire full ownership of Brazilian thermoelectric power plant operator Marlim Azul Energia.

Mattos Filho advised target company Marlim Azul Energia and the sellers, Shell, Mitsubishi Power Americas and a separate Patria-managed fund.

Mergers and acquisitions activity in Latin America and the Caribbean has been sluggish this year, but a rebound is expected in the fourth quarter, led by more cross-border deals, experts say.
“I’m cautiously optimistic,” says Pedro Whitaker de Souza Dias, a managing partner of M&A at Mattos Filho, a law firm in São Paulo. “I think it is going to be a bit better during the last four months of the year, but again, moderately.”

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