GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, has revealed its league tables for top 10 legal advisers by value and volume in South & Central America for Q1 2021 in its report, ‘Global and South & Central America M&A Report Legal Adviser League Tables Q1 2021’.
According to GlobalData’s M&A report, a total of 190 M&A deals were announced in the region during Q1 2021, while deal value increased by 250% from $12bn in Q1 2020 to $42bn in Q1 2021 in the region.
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Top Advisers by Value and Volume
Lefosse Advogados and Demarest Advogados emerged as the top mergers and acquisitions (M&A) legal advisers in South & Central America for Q1 2021 by value and volume, respectively.
Lefosse Advogados advised on two deals worth $9.5bn – this was the highest value among all the advisers. Meanwhile, Demarest Advogados led in terms of volume, having advised on four deals worth $47m.
GlobalData lead analyst Ravi Tokala said: “The billion-dollar merger of Hapvida Health System with Notre Dame Intermedica played an instrumental role in the rankings by value. Interestingly, the top five advisers by value and top three advisers by volume were involved in this deal.
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By GlobalData“Demarest Advogados, which occupied top spot in volume terms, did not even feature among the top ten advisers by value due to its involvement in low-value transactions.”
Madrona Advogados took the second spot in terms of value with two deals worth $9.3bn. It was followed by Pinheiro Neto Advogados, which secured second position in terms of volume, with three deals worth $9.1bn.
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice got the third position by volume with three deals worth $1.5bn.
GlobalData’s league tables are based on the real-time tracking of thousands of company websites, advisory firm websites and other reliable sources available on the secondary domain. A dedicated team of analysts monitors all these sources to gather in-depth details for each deal, including adviser names.
To ensure further robustness to the data, the company also seeks submissions from leading advisers, through adviser submission forms on GlobalData’s website.
