Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados in Brazil and Davis Polk & Wardwell from the US have helped Brazil's largest shopping centre operator, BR Malls, raise US$430 million in a public share offering.
Pinheiro Guimarães - Advogados and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP advised the underwriters - Itaú BBA, UBS Pactual, Santander and Citigroup – in the offering, which closed on the 1 July.
"An offering of this size in the midst of an economic crisis as this is a show of strength of the Brazilian capital markets," says Pinheiro Guimarães partner Ivie Moura Alves.
The deal is one of a series of recent share offerings in Brazil that suggest its markets are beginning to ease. Real estate developer MRV raised US$323 million in a share offer in June, followed a week later by Visanet's record-breaking US$4.3 billion initial public offering - the largest-ever IPO in Brazil, and the largest anywhere in the world so far this year.
BR Malls operates 34 shopping centres in Brazil. The company raised US$325 million in its IPO in 2007.
Counsel to BR Malls Participações
· In-house counsel - Cláudia Lacerda
Brazil
· Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Partner Carlos Motta and associates Michel de Almeida Porcino, Stéphanie Salcas Pepe, Felipe Gruber Ribeiro and Giovanna Modolin
US
· Davis Polk & Wardwell
Partners Manuel Garciadiaz in New York and John Paton in London, associates Raymond Holst, Christine Graham, Catherine Martin, and foreign associate Helio Alvarez
Counsel to the underwriters
Brazil
· Pinheiro Guimarães - Advogados
Partners Francisco José Pinheiro Guimarães and Ivie Moura Alves and associates Maria Carolina Ricciardi, Raquel Pompêo de Camargo Villela and Luisa Cabral dos Santos
US
· Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Partners Dick Aldrich in São Paulo and Paul Schnell and Sally Thurston in New York, and associates Filipe Areno, Karina Romano and Olivier Nolens
SP
(Latin Lawyer 09.07.2009)
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