by RUMSEY, Lulu

While 2013 was characterised by a hyperactive equity market in Mexico, buoyed by fairly positive signs from capital markets in Brazil, 2014 represented a gloomier affair. The region’s two largest economies didn′t report their first IPOs of the year until mid-year and both remained decidedly quieter than in the previous 12 months.

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In spite of the slow year, offerings by regional companies with assets in Brazil kept capital markets groups there occupied: Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados was recruited along with Davis Polk and Colombia’s Suárez Zapata Partners Abogados to help regional oil and gas company GeoPark when it made its US$95 million IPO on the New York stock exchange in February.