Virtus BR Partners

Virtus BR is a leading independent investment banking firm in Brazil focused on M&A, debt restructuring, debt advisory, private placement, fairness opinion, and project finance advisory services. Since its foundation, Virtus BR has advised its clients in M&A, debt restructuring, and debt advisory transactions worth over US$40 billion. In the past few years, Virtus BR has advised clients in landmark transactions, including: - Independent advisory to AEGEA on the PPP auction in connection with sewage operations concessions for CAGECE's clusters #1 and #2 (US$3.5 billion); - Constellation's in-court debt restructuring representing the Ad Hoc group of bondholders (US$1.8 billion); - Sale of Focus Energia to Eneva (US$189 million); - Independent financial advisor of Focus Energia on its IPO (US$144 million); - Conversion of unsecured credits into shares of Oi representing the Ad Hoc Group of bondholders (US$2.8 billion); - Sale of CSN, owner of the largest privately-held water utilities concession in Brazil, to AEGEA (US$331 million); - Oi's in-court debt restructuring representing the Ad Hoc Group of bondholders (US$18.4 billion); - Embraport's out-of-court debt restructuring, followed by a 100% acquisition by DP World (US$610 million); - CGG's out-of-court debt restructuring representing Sojitz Corporation (US$170 million); - Odebrecht Agroindustrial's out-of-court debt restructuring (US$3.6 billion); - Aralco’s in-court debt restructuring (US$429 million); - Merger between Claro, Net, and Embrapar (US$12.3 billion); - Acquisition of a container terminal by EcoRodovias (US$705 million); - Sale of a minority stake in Odebrecht Realizações Imobiliárias to Gávea Investimentos (US$168 million).