Basic Industry, Manufacturing and Real State
Client Transaction

Size
(US$MM)
Year
Grupo Imsa Sale of Grupo Imsa’s Chilean operations to local steel producer CAP $40 2006
Avianca Sale of Colombia’s largest airline to Brazil-based Efromovich Group. Avianca’s controlling shareholders were the Santo Domingo Group and the Coffee Growers Federation $250 2004
Dacra Sale of minority stake to CALPERS of a leading real estate development company in Miami $20 2008
Cemex Purchase of a significant minority interest in Cementos Bio Bio,Chile’s largest independent Cement Company $40 1999
Sociedad Comercial
del Plata (SCP)
/ Aguas Argentinas		 Sale by SCP, an Argentine oil & gas, utility, entertainment and real estate concern, of its interest in Aguas Argentinas, the largest water concession worldwide, to Lyonnaise des Eaux of France $150 1998
Bristol Myers Squibb Purchase of Abeefe, Peru’s largest pharmaceutical laboratory $110 1997
Corporación Geo Establishment of a joint venture between Corporación Geo and Salfa, a leading Chilean construction Company. Corporación
Geo is the largest developer and builder of affordable income homes in the Americas		 NA 1997
Cemex Purchase of a significant minority interest in Central de Mezclas, Colombia’s largest ready-mix producer $40 1997
Cemex Purchase of controlling interests in Cementos Diamante and Cementos Samper, Colombia’s second and third largest cement Companies. (Then largest-ever private sector M&A
transaction in Colombia)		 $700 1996
Cemex Sale to Tata Consultancy Services of 100% of ComicromS.A. in Chile, the country’s leading financial servicesprocess outsourcer $170 1995
Corfivalle / Icollantas Sale by Corfivalle, a leading Colombian bank, of its controlling stake in Icollantas, Colombia’s largest tire manufacturer, to Michelin of France $73 1998
Cemex Purchase of Vencemos, Venezuela’s largest cement Company $300 1994