Category: M&A

A series of bold acquisitions has turned Mexico’s Cemex from a provincial company to a global player in just over a decade. The company’s latest leap forward came in September […]

In a stock-for-stock deal that turned into Mexico’s second-biggest merger ever, the country’s largest mining company has joined Peru’s top miner.

In the corporate world, Latin America’s traditional family-controlled companies may dominate today, but they will be the dinosaurs of tomorrow.

Steelmakers Target Brazil The world’s largest steelmaker, Luxembourg-based Arcelor, says it will invest $3 billion in acquisitions and expansion in Brazil by 2010. It has earmarked $1 billion to boost […]

It may have been the biggest acquisition ever by a Mexican company, but the $5.75 billion deal by cement maker Cemex should have come as no shock.

Cemex to Buy UK’s RMC GroupIn a deal valued at $5.8 billion, Mexico’s Cemex will buy the UK’s RMC Group. The acquisition by Cemex, the world’s third-largest cement company, is […]

Grupo México has pulled back from the brink of disaster, after its ill-fated US acquisition. But it is still staggering under a heavy debt burden.

Some of Latin America’s biggest and best companies have built outstanding in-house M&A teams. So why do they still hire investment bankers?

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JP Morgan decisively pulled ahead of the competition in Latin America last year, with a dominant market share in bond and equity issuance, and mergers and acquisitions mandates, the key […]