Latham & Watkins, Simpson Advise $1 Bln Chile Deal

Hogan Lovells, Morrison & Foerster, Paul Hastings advise Brazil, Colombia, Mexico work.

BY LATINVEX STAFF

Latham & Watkins and Simpson Thacher advised on the $1 billion purchase of a majority stake in Telefónica Chile’s fiber optic network by US-based investment firm KKR; Paul Hastings represented Colombia's Conconcreto and France’s Vinci Highways in the $196 million bridge loan financing for the Bogotá–Girardot toll road project; Morrison & Foerster represented SoftBank in the $84.5 million financing round in Brazilian education company Descomplica (the biggest investment to date in an EdTech company in Latin America) and Hogan Lovells advised Mexican e-commerce holding company Valoreo in its $50 million of equity and debt financing seed round (one of the largest seed rounds ever to come out of Latin America).

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Keywords: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Hogan Lovells, Latham & Watkins, Mexico, Morrison & Foerster, M&As, Paul Hastings, Simpson Thacher