Experience

• Cross Border M&A

  • Brookfield Business Partners and its institutional partners in their acquisition of Ouro Verde, a leading Brazilian fleet management company.
  • The Carlyle Group in its strategic minority investment in Grupo Madero, the largest casual dining and fast-casual restaurant chain in Brazil.
  • The parent of SouthWest Water Company (SWWC), a water and wastewater utility operating in Alabama, California, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and Texas, in the sale of a 25% indirect managed stake in SWWC to an affiliate of Munich Re and ERGO.
  • Ambev S.A. in the acquisition of a 30% interest in Cervecería Nacional Dominicana (CND), the leading beer company in the Caribbean, and the restructuring of its joint venture with E. León Jimenes, in a transaction valued at $926.5 million.
  • Four Italian private equity firms in the sale of Dynamic Technologies, a global designer and manufacturer of automotive fluid-handling systems and precision aluminum parts.
  • Brookfield Business Partners and Brookfield Asset Management in their proposed acquisition for $768 million of a 70% controlling stake in the business of Odebrecht Ambiental, Brazil’s largest private water distribution, collection and treatment company.
  • Lauro Cinquantasette in its €315 million sale of Prime European Therapeuticals S.p.A. to Albany Molecular Research.
  • GP Investments in a joint venture with a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) to finance the acquisition, through a tender offer in Brazil, of a controlling stake in BR Properties S.A., a Brazilian real estate company.
  • Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in its investment in Poseidon Water.
  • Ambev S.A. in a tender offer to acquire a controlling stake in Banks Holdings Limited, a leading Caribbean brewery headquartered in St. Michael, Barbados.
  • Mitsui in its investment in VLI, a cargo logistics company.
  • Ambev S.A. in its $1.24 billion acquisition of indirect control of Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana (CND) and its strategic alliance with E. León Jimenes to create the leading brewer in the Caribbean.
  • Mitsui and the consortium of equity investors in the financing of the $1 billion Malhas natural gas pipeline network in Brazil.
  • Mitsui in its seven gas distribution joint ventures with Petrobras and the relevant Brazilian states.
  • Mitsui in its joint venture with Petrobras to acquire, finance and charter a $750 million ultra-deepwater drillship.
  • Ambev S.A. in its combination of business activities in Venezuela with Cerveceria Regional S.A.

• Mining

  • A leading steel company in the Americas in a dispute arising from an acquisition and related supply agreements.
  • The project financing of the Cerro Verde mine in Peru, which was recognized as the Project Finance Deal of the Year by Latin Lawyer Magazine.
  • Mitsui in its investment in VLI, a cargo logistics company.
  • PVDC, a subsidiary of Barrick and Goldcorp, in a renegotiation of the terms of the Pueblo Viejo Special Lease Agreement with an NPV of $1.5 billion.
  • Mitsui in its joint venture with Codelco to acquire 29.5% of Anglo American Sur.