International Corporate Finance

BRAZIL BEST INVESTMENT BANKS

M&A Advisory

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS

LEADING

Bradesco BBI Alessandro Farkuh, Leandro De Miranda Araujo

BTG Pactual Marco Gonçalves, Fabio Nazari, Bruno Duque Horta Nogueira

Itau BBA Christian Egan, Eduardo Guimarães

EXCELLENT

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hans Lin

Goldman Sachs Antonio R. Pereira

J.P. Morgan Marcelo Alvarez Gaiani

Rothschild Luiz Muniz, Victor Leclercq

Santander Global Banking & Markets Leonardo Paludo

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Banco Votorantim Jean Marc Dreyer

Barclays André Laloni

Citi Jean Marc Dreyer, Caio Blaj

Credit Suisse Weaver Edward

Deutsche Bank Renato Grelle

IGC Partners Dimitri Abudi, Daniel Milanez, Ludimila Mangili, André Pereira, Flavia Silveira

Lazard Jean Pierre Zarouk

UBS Felipe Campos

RECOMMENDED

Albatross Rodrigo Muraro, Paulo Sinhohara, Vittor Vissotto, Murilo Ferraz

Banco Safra Roberto Barbuti

BNP Paribas Leandro Almeida

BR Partners Ricardo Lacerda

Brasilpar Daniela C. P. de Pinho

Crédit Agricole CIB Pedro Salgado

EP Capital Luiz Rossi

G5 Evercore Marco Hascal

Greenhill & Co Daniel Wainstein

Lincoln International James Sinclair

Pangea Partners Marcio Guedes Pereira Junior

Xingu Capital Ricardo de Carvalho

Alessandro Farkuh

L eaders:
Alessandro Farkuh,
Leandro De Miranda Araujo
E stablished:
1966

Track record: The investment bank partici-

pated in the biggest transaction of the year

in Brazil by advising Banco Bradesco - its

parent company and one of the country’s

largest banks - in the acquisition of HSBC

Bank Brasil for a total of $5.2 billion. With

the deal, Bradesco will take over all national

operations of HSBC, including retail, insu-

rance and asset management, as well as all

the branches and clients.

Team & differentiation: With a recognized

investment banking practice in Brazil for more

than three decades, Bradesco BBI is also

present in London, Hong Kong and New York

providing a variety of services, such as structu-

ring, execution and distribution of operations in

many segments: variable/fixed income, struc-

tured operations, M&A and project finance.

BRADESCO BBI: CLIENT RECOGNITION
AND FOUR DECADE’S WORTH OF EXPERIENCE

André Pereira

L eaders:

Dimitri Abudi, Daniel

Milanez, Ludimila Mangili,

André Pereira, Flavia

Silveira

E stablished:

1997

Track record: In March 2016, IGC advised

BC2, a company specialized in providing

maintenance for highways, in the sale of 40%

of its stake by Vivante, industrial maintenance

company. In the same month, IGC advised Yes,

national animal feed additive company in the

sale of its controlling interest to Aqua Capital, a

private equity firm.

Team & differentiation: IGC has engaged in

more than 150 transactions for a total of over

$6 billion. The company has vast experience

in different economy segments, such as retail,

food & beverage, entertainment, media, tech-

nology, financial, health, education, real estate

and energy as well as in a number of different

activities, like capital raising, joint ventures,

private placements, financial restructuring and

initial public offerings.

IGC PARTNERS:

M&A BOUTIQUE LEADING THE MIDDLE MARKET