Catalyst partnership moves to a Latin American beat

BIRMINGHAM advisory firm Catalyst Corporate Finance has expanded its international partnership into Latin America with a new member in Peru.

EFIC Partners is an independent financial boutique based in Lima offering financial and strategic advisory to clients in Peru and Latin America.

It focuses on M&A and capital raising (through debt or equity) for Peruvian companies seeking to expand their businesses and foreign clients looking to invest in Peru.

In recent years, EFIC has completed transactions in the infrastructure, energy, mining services, financial and consumer goods sectors.

With a predicted GDP growth of 5.5% in 2015, an increasing number of investors are looking to Peru (and other Latin American countries) for investment opportunities.

Since 2003 Peru’s economy has almost doubled in size and in the same period inflation has fallen to 2.9%.

On the back of this performance M&A activity has increased thus demonstrating investor confidence in the country’s future economic performance.

Keith Pickering, partner at Catalyst and chairman of the Mergers Alliance partnership, said: “I am delighted to welcome EIFC Partners to our international partnership.

“Our ability to access buyers in all the major economies is vital for our clients as our work becomes in increasingly international and EIFC will gives us a strong foothold in the growing Latin America economies.”