CADE

Brookfield Asset Management has received approval from CADE to begin construction on solar energy projects in the Brazilian state of Ceará. The projects will have a combined capacity to produce…

Private equity funds the Global Environment Fund (GEF) and Performa Investimentos will exit Tecverde Engenharia, in a sale to E2E a Chile based joint venture between Etex and Arauco. Tecverde…

BBM Logística, a distribution and logistics portfolio company of the Brazilian private equity firm Stratus Group, finalized the acquisition of trucking company Translovato. With this strategic acquisition BBM Logística has…

Brazilian medical diagnostics company Fleury signed an agreement to acquire Recife based medical diagnostics company Diagmax for R$80.3m. The transaction if approved by the CADE will provide an exit for…

Axxon invested R$100m for a minority stake in Estratégia Concursos, a Brazilian edtech platform providing online courses. The money will be used to enter new verticals in the field of…

Evoltz Participações SA, controlled by the Seville Investment Fund, purchased 50% of capital stock of ATE VIII, a company operating in the electricity transmission segment in Brazil. It was an…

Brazil’s antitrust authority CADE has approved without restrictions the acquisition of a 100% stake in Gran Coffee and Brasil Espresso.  The transaction was closed in December 2018. (Valor Econômico) A…

Brazil’s antitrust authority CADE has approved without restrictions, the planned acquisition of a 40.6% stake in Companhia Energetica de Sao Paulo by Votorantim Energia and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). The transaction is valued at more than BRL 3 billion.

Brazil’s antitrust authority CADE authorized the acquisition of  USS Soluções Gerenciadas SA (“Tempo Assist”) by Swiss Re Direct Investments Company Ltd .

Brazil’s antitrust authority CADE has approved without restrictions, the acquisition of 50% of social capital of Esperanza Transmissora de Energia (Esperanza) by Brasil Energia Fundo de Investimento em Participações Multiestratégia (FIP Brasil Energia).