Brazilian bookrunners hailed as catalyst behind Gerdau deal success

Gerdau’s CFO cites the raft of Brazilian bookrunners as the reason for completing an international landmark transaction that won the company a Euromoney Deals of the Year award

Latin American markets promised much but delivered little in terms of equity transactions. Brazil, the traditional engine of ECM activity, flattered to deceive with a successful IPO by Arezzo in January. Then the market fell away as deal after deal has priced at the bottom of or below its pricing range. 

Gerdau follow-on
Value R$4,985 million ($ 3,141 million)
Date April 12 2011
Bookrunners Bradesco BBI, BTG Pactual and Itaú BBA
return to the Latin America Deals of the Year index

After-market performance was typically immediately bad but some deals clawed back lost ground through the year.

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