Relatório Mensal Brasil – Maio 2020

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Fusões e aquisições no Brasil têm redução de 28% até maio

Fundos de Private Equity e Venture Capital estrangeiros reduzem seus investimentos em 50%

Transações de Venture Capital no Brasil aumentam em 14%

Empresas estrangeiras diminuíram em 35% investimentos no setor de Tecnologia e Internet

Valor e número de transações 

O mercado transacional brasileiro registrou até o mês de maio 411 operações com um valor total de BRL 43,6bi, segundo o informe mensal da TTR. Isto representa uma diminuição de 63% do valor movimentado  e uma redução de 28% no número de transações, em relação ao mesmo período de 2019.

Por sua vez, no mês de maio se registraram 69 transações de fusões e aquisições entre anunciadas e concluídas, por um valor total de BRL 1,6bi.

Setores mais ativos  

Os setor mais ativo do ano é o de Tecnologia com 113 transações. No segundo lugar dois setores tiveram a mesma quantidade de operações, Financeiro e Seguros e Saúde, Higiene e Estética, com 49 transações cada. 

Âmbito Cross-Border

Os Estados Unidos reduziram suas aquisições no Brasil em 40%, mesmo assim, ainda são o investidor mais ativo com 29 transações até o fim de maio. Fundos de Private Equity e Venture Capital estrangeiros também reduziram seus investimentos no Brasil em 50%. Da mesma forma, empresas estrangeiras diminuíram em 35% seus investimentos no setor de Tecnologia e Internet no Brasil, na comparação anual.

Em relação a atuação brasileira no exterior, Estados Unidos  é o destino favorito na hora de realizar investimentos, com sete transações.

Private Equity 

Até maio, os fundos de Private Equity registraram BRL 1,3bi no valor transacionado, o que representa uma redução de 89% na comparação anual. O número de transações foi 33, diminuição de 18%.

Venture Capital 

Os fundos de Venture Capital movimentaram um total de BRL 2,7bi até maio, incremento de 3% em relação a 2019. Foram 104 transações, aumento de 14%.

Transação destacada 

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A transação destacada pelo TTR foi a aquisição da Pharma Limírio Indústria Farmacêutica, empresa que atua na fabricação de medicamentos alopáticos injetáveis, por parte da Blau Farmacêutica.

A operação movimentou BRL 150m.  Os assessores jurídicos na transação foram os escritórios  MNA – Miguel Neto Advogados e  Souza, Mello e Torres.  Os assessores financeiros foram o Banco Bradesco BBI e o  Banco Itaú BBA.

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Transactional Impact Monitor: Brazil – Vol. 3

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Transactional Impact Monitor: Brazil – Vol. 3

12 May 2020

TTR’s Transactional Impact Monitor (TIM) is a Special Report combining local knowledge and market visibility from top dealmakers developed to address extraordinary situations affecting the macroeconomic stability and M&A outlook in core markets

INDEX
– M&A Outlook
– Private Equity
– Equity Capital Markets
– Handling the Crisis
– Dealmaker Profiles

Seven weeks into the global lockdown, several state governments across Brazil, including Paraná and Santa Catarina, have begun allowing businesses to reopen as the country tiptoes towards normalcy. A phased reopening across the state of São Paulo began on 10 May. 

The official death toll attributed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to mount, meanwhile, surpassing 10,000 in recent days, and along with it pressure against a defiant President Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro sacked his health minister in mid-April following weeks of contradicting each other in public over the gravity of the health threat. Two weeks later Bolsonaro’s minister of justice resigned after the president fired the director general of the federal police, resulting in a legal inquiry that has triggered calls for his impeachment among political opponents.

National development bank, BNDES, continues its efforts to provide short-term liquidity to struggling companies, announcing a process to select fund managers to administer BRL 4bn in loans for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a tender closing 3 June. News of the tender comes less than a month after the government announced it would make BRL 40bn available to SMEs impacted by the forced closure of “non-essential” businesses in the face of the SARS-CoV-2 threat. To date, only BRL 666m of the BRL 40bn has been approved in payroll support for some 30,000 businesses, according to local press reports.

“We are having similar problems as in the US,” said Spectra Investments Founder Ricardo Kanitz. “The stimulus was given through banks, and instead of going to the companies that need it most, the banks are giving it to their best clients,” he said, noting that the government was now trying fix the process. 

The Ibovespa gained 2.75% in the first week of May, recovering the week’s losses as blue chips pushed the market higher and the US and China struck a conciliatory tone on trade.

Brazil’s transactional market is also beginning to stabilize, with deal volumes down dramatically over 2019, but plenty of activity keeping advisors occupied as they continue to isolate themselves in home offices. 

Madrona Advogados began 2020 full of confidence, its partners convinced it would be another great year based on their robust pipeline of M&A, capital markets and infrastructure projects, said Founding Partner Ricardo Madrona.

The wave of privatizations, concessions and infrastructure projects was generating a strong flow of funds from abroad, he said. The firm was investing in its internal growth to keep up with the growing workload, securing additional office space and hiring, he said. “We never imagined this would come. Although we had information about what was happening in China, we didn’t expect it would have this kind of impact in Brazil.”

The firm didn’t have remote work infrastructure in place and was caught offguard when the most cautious voices in the federal and state governments began issuing stay-at-home guidelines, he said. By the end of March, however, Madrona had secured the hardware and software required to maintain productivity remotely. “We had to adjust very quickly.”

Today, the firm’s staff is completely “connected and inter-connected”, Madrona said, with video conferencing having become the new normal. “It’s crazy, but at the end of the day, we’re seeing we can work remotely.” This new way of working will remain in place to some degree beyond the immediacy of the crisis, he said.

“From a legal perspective, due diligence efforts under these new circumstances aren’t that different,” said Demarest Advogados Partner José Diaz, “Since we are already very much used to the virtual data rooms.” From a technical point of view, on the other hand, there are usually a few problems, Diaz said. “We are frequently involved in agribusiness and forestry deals and there we find several restrictions regarding access. However, in practice those due diligences are still being carried out, regardless of a few obstacles,” he added.

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Relatório Mensal Brasil – Abril 2020

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Fusões e Aquisições mantêm tendência de queda em abril

Fusões e Aquisições mantêm tendêcia de queda em abril 

Volume de aquisições realizadas por empresas dos Estados Unidos no Brasil sofreu redução de 43%. 

Até o fim do quarto mês do ano observa-se uma desaceleração nos diversos tipos de transação de Fusões e Aquisições, em relação ao mesmo período de 2019. 

Valor e número de transações 

Segundo o mais recente relatório do  TTR – Transactional Track Record, até o fim de abril de 2020, a plataforma mapeou 316 transações envolvendo empresas brasileiras, o que representa uma diminuição de 29% em relação ao mesmo período de 2019. Já no tocante ao valor total transacionado, até o fim do mês de abril houve uma movimentação de BRL 41,8bi, ou seja, uma diminuição de 52% em relação ao valor transacionado até o fim de abril de 2019. Os dados do mês de abril, com 60 negócios registrados, reforça a tendêcia de queda inciada em março.  

Setores mais ativos  

Com referência aos setores mais ativos, até o fim de abril podemos observar que a ordem do primeiro trimestre se mantém. Assim, o setor tecnológico continua na liderança com 76 transações, seguido pelo setor financeiro com 38 e no terceiro lugar, figura o setor imobiliário com 35. 

Transações Cross-border 

As operações transnacionais mapeadas pela TTR do começo de 2020 até o fim de abril, refletem uma diminuição considerável em relação ao mesmo período de 2019. O volume de aquisições realizadas por empresas dos Estados Unidos no Brasil sofreu uma redução de 43%, porém mantiveram a posição como as que mais adquiriram empresas brasileiras, com 21 negócios e um total de BRL 1,9bi transacionados, seguido pelo Canadá e pela França, com seis e quatro transações respectivamente. 

As aquisições de empresas brasileiras por estrangeiras no setor de Tecnologia e Internet, tiveram uma redução de 50%. Além disso, fundos de Private Equity e Venture Capital estrangeiros reduziram seus investimentos em empresas brasileiras em 43%, em relação ao começo de janeiro até o fim de abril de 2019. 

No sentido contrário, foram mapeadas até o fim de abril, 14 transações onde empresas brasileiras realizaram aquisições no exterior, sendo os Estados Unidos o destino preferido com 7 transações e BRL 1,3bi movimentados. 

Private Equity 

As transações envolvendo fundos de Private Equity realizadas do começo de janeiro até o fim de abril de 2020 tiveram uma diminuição considerável de 80% do valor transacionado com BRL 1,2bi, em relação ao mesmo período de 2019. Já o volume de transações diminuíram em 3% com 29 transações.  

Os dois setores mais ativos foram o Rodovias e o de Transporte, aviação e logística, com cinco operações cada. O fundo que mais se destacou foi o Monte Equity Partners que esteve envolvido em seis transações. 

Venture Capital 

Já as transações envolvendo fundos de Venture Capital realizadas do começo de janeiro até o fim de abril de 2020 representaram uma diminuição de 4% no total do valor transacionado com BRL 2,4bi, em relação ao mesmo período de 2019. Já o volume de transações aumentou em 3% com 72 operações.  

O setor mais ativo do período foi o de Tecnologia com 40 transações, seguido pelo setor Financeiro e seguros com 13 transações. O fundo que mais se destacou foi o e.Bricks Ventures que esteve envolvido em seis transações. 

Transação destacada 

A transação destacada pelo TTR foi a conclusão da aquisição da Adtalem, grupo de ensino superior privado brasileiro, pela YDUQS. O valor da transação foi de BRL 2,20bi. 
 
A Adtalem é um grupo de ensino superior privado brasileiro com 102 mil alunos matriculados, e detentor das marcas Ibmec, Wyden (FMF, Unimetrocamp, Facid, UniFBV, Facimp, UniRuy, Área 1, Unifavip, Unifanor e Faci), Damásio Educacional, SJT Med e Clio. 

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Transactional Impact Monitor: Brazil – Vol. 2

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Transactional Impact Monitor: Brazil – Vol. 2

17 April 2020

TTR’s Transactional Impact Monitor (TIM) is a Special Report combining local knowledge and market visibility from top dealmakers developed to address extraordinary situations affecting the macroeconomic stability and M&A outlook in core markets

INDEX
– M&A Outlook
– Private Equity
– Equity Capital Markets
– Handling the Crisis
– Dealmaker Profiles

Latin America’s largest economy has had its share of uncertainty over the past decade, but no previous crisis brought everyday life to such a standstill. Nonetheless, routine fits and starts and two major recessions in the past 10 years tempered the euphoria dealmakers were feeling in early 2020. 

“Things in Brazil tend to be rather volatile,” said Veirano Advogados Partner Carlos Lobo. “You begin each year without really knowing where things are going to go.”

Notwithstanding the characteristic Brazilian nonchalance, spirits were high as prospects looked exceptionally good in early 2020, Lobo said, especially compared to the chaotic start last year that followed the inauguration of President Jair Bolsonaro, which suppressed M&A and capital markets activity in 1H19.

The beginning of 2020 was the opposite, Lobo said. Critical reforms were being pushed through, there was an expectation that Brazil’s GDP would grow by 2%, unemployment was falling and interest rates were low, so there was a positive outlook.

“We were all very optimistic this year in terms of M&A, private equity and equity capital markets,” agreed Reinaldo Grasson, Head of M&A and Debt Advisory at Deloitte in São Paulo. “Companies were delivering good results, they had strong balance sheets, the stock exchange was at an all time high. From all angles it was very, very positive.”

Market conditions in Brazil soured by mid-March however, as the threat of a pandemic prompted state and federal governments to respond by restricting travel outside the home and limiting non-essential business activities. 

March was not bad, all things considered, Grasson said. “Not as good as the previous year, but we didn’t expect this setback.” The transactions being announced now are those that have already been through due diligence, he said. “Our clients, investors are waiting so see what’s going on in the country.”

By mid-April, the federal government had disbursed over BRL 3bn in BRL 600 payments to nearly 5m Brazilians in emergency income support, out of nearly 36m applications received by state bank Caixa Econômica Federal, according to the local press. The support to the country’s most vulnerable population has been matched by a loosening of fiscal targets and labor laws, an extension of tax filing and payment deadlines and specific support to airlines and the tourism industry, among a host of other measures. 

State entities aren’t themselves immune from the downturn facing the country. This reality is most notable in the oil and gas sector, which is reeling from a global price war in addition to depressed demand for refined products. State-owned oil producer Petrobras announced on 15 April it would freeze operations on nearly 50 drilling platforms with some 2,600 direct and another 7,000 indirect jobs at stake. Deal volume in the oil and gas industry is sure to decline precipitously in 2020.

The falling M&A and Equity Capital Markets (ECM) workload is being replaced by matters that have become more pressing for clients at leading M&A law firm Cescon Barrieu, Founding Partner Marcos Flesch said. Litigation consultations, for example, have increased notably, Flesch said, though actual litigation hasn’t picked up yet. Clients are allowing the dust to settle and negotiating amicably with their suppliers and customers in the interim, he said. Cescon Barrieu is also seeing an uptick in consultations related to material adverse change and force majeure issues, Flesch noted.

All areas of Cescon Barrieu are actually working more than what was expected at the beginning of the crisis, noted Managing Partner Joaquim Oliveira. “We were a little bit surprised by the level of activity that we’ve had in the last four weeks.” The firm is bracing for a downturn in the next few months though, Oliveira said, but confidence in a return to normality by late May or June runs high.

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Transactional Impact Monitor: Brazil

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Transactional Impact Monitor: Brazil – Vol. 1

3 April 2020

TTR’s Transactional Impact Monitor (TIM) is a Special Report combining local knowledge and market visibility from top dealmakers developed to address extraordinary situations affecting the macroeconomic stability and M&A outlook in core markets

INDEX
– M&A Outlook
– Private Equity
– Equity Capital Markets
– Handling the Crisis
– The View from Milan
– Dealmaker Profiles

As Brazil braced for the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in mid-March, Governors across the country called on citizens to remain at home. Most non-essential business operations across São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were shuttered, with other states quickly following suit, resulting in a precipitous decline in commerce and travel. In the two weeks that followed, a program of support was announced by the federal government, despite dismissive posturing by President Jair Bolsonaro, as a lifeline to the corporate sector and the country’s most vulnerable in the face of the perceived threat.

Brazil’s central bank cut interest rates to 3.75% on 19 March, a record low in the country, and the government has allocated upwards of BRL 800bn (USD 152bn) to support liquidity and increase funding for critical social programs. Other measures under consideration include loan purchase programs like those utilized in the 2008 crisis and the country still has about USD 300bn in international reserves, which it could use to soften the exchange rate turmoil that pushed the Brazilian real from BRL 4 to the USD on 1 January to BRL 5.2 on 31 March. 

The depreciation of the real in itself doesn’t have an impact on M&A in the short term, but it could spur inbound transactions post shutdown, said JK Capital Managing Partner Marcell Portugal. “We have to see how the other factors play out and the uncertainties stabilize, but for sure, in the mid-term, the depressed exchange rate will stimulate foreign investment.”

What began as an upbeat year among Brazil’s top dealmakers quickly transformed into a virtual standstill as the crescendo of the economic cycle hit a wall. From its 52-week and historical high on 23 January 2020, the Ibovespa plummeted some 56,000 points by 23 March amid a barrage of news reports indicating the virus was exacting a heavy toll on Italy and Spain, with the US sure to follow. Trading was interrupted twice on 12 March when the exchange’s circuit breaker was triggered after stocks fell more than 10% over the previous day’s close. The circuit breaker was tripped several more times in the following week, mirroring similar occurrences at the New York Stock Exchange on 9, 12 and 18 March.

Not all is doom and gloom in Brazil, however, and dealmakers are cautiously upbeat, pinning their hopes on a rapid recovery in 2H20 fueled by economic activity postponed from the first half and a barrage of opportunistic M&A deals, provided the stay-at-home guidelines issued by state governments are deemed effective and lifted to allow economic activity to resume by June. 

If the directive issued this week in the US to extend the business shutdowns for the month of April is any indicator, Brazil could impose similar measures, which would jeopardize the finances of countless companies and disrupt the livelihoods of millions, especially those on the wrong side of the digital divide for whom remote work is not an option.


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