The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved its first credit operation for Brazil, in the amount of $100 million for the Minas Gerais Development Bank (BDMG). This comes four months after Brazil became an effective partner in this China-led, Beijing-based multilateral development bank. The funds are expected to be available to BDMG in three tranches […]
Pátria Investimentos fund closed an agreement to purchase the hydroelectric plants of British company ContourGlobal in Brazil for $313 million, including debt – Pátria will pay $162 million. The assets traded have an installed capacity of 168 megawatts (MW). The deal, expected to be completed in the second quarter, was a first step in ContourGlobal’s […]
As a child, Juliana Coelho liked numbers. For this reason, she decided to study engineering. She chose a specialization in chemistry because she knew that an engineer’s chances of launching a career in the state of Pernambuco were limited to the petrochemical complex. But when she reached the end of her penultimate year of college, […]