Latin America Mergers & Acquisitions Up 17%
Latinvex ranks the top deals in Latin America in 2019.
BY LATINVEX STAFF
The value of announced mergers & acquisitions in Latin America grew 17.1 percent last year, with Brazil outperforming the region, seeing a 26.3 percent increase, according to a Latinvex analysis of data from Refinitiv.
That compares with a 21.9 percent decline in 2018 and a 8.2 percent increase in 2017.
The $8.98 billion bid for the Búzios oil field in Brazil by China-based CNODC and Brazilian state oil company Petrobras became the top deal in Latin America last year, followed by...
Keywords: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru
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