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Brazil’s M&A Market Shows Early Signs of a Comeback Ahead
- Renewed enthusiasm pervades in confidence indexes, stocks
- Resolution of political crisis is key to M&A turnaround
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Brazil’s long-forgotten mergers and acquisitions market finally looks poised for a comeback, investment bankers and private equity firms say.
“There’s a clear improvement in confidence, which increases people’s will to carry out these kinds of transactions,” Amaury Bier, chief executive officer of investment firm Gavea Investimentos Ltda., said by phone from Sao Paulo. “There is this sentiment that Brazil will probably improve, that it has reached the bottom and it’s starting to improve.”